Show golden dawn by peter B kyne copyright by bell syndicate cf lc SYNOPSIS theodore gatlin adopts a baby penelope penalope in MI an effort to solve olve hll his matrimonial troubles but his wit wife hils has never wanted her and their affairs end in the th divorce court at a baseball game a ball strikes ton ten year old penelope on the nose urs mrs catlin spirits the child to europe gatlin wills penelope iii all his money and to Is about to begin a search for her when a motor accident ends his ufa some ten years rears later in san francisco stephen burt rising younk young psychiatrist la Is presented by dan mcnamara chief of police with a now new patient nance belden a girl with a dual personality tor for which her bar saddle nose to Is in part responsible reopen sible mcnamara does not think she Is in a criminal and obtains burts burls festl testimony r n ony in court lanny the doctors 0 office filce nurse la Is also won over nances bances criminal record outweighs doctor burts burls explanation of her case and she to Is sent cent to san quentin penitentiary lanny visits her and nance persuades her to smuggle out a letter which a confederate of nance steals nance escapes although shot and gots goes to dannys apartment prom from one of the men man in the boat on which the girl escaped uc me namara learns that nances bances real name in ie penelope gatlin CHAPTER V continued 12 flynn and Angello tl needed no second invitation they searched the house thoroughly and returned to the little drawing room to finish their drinks youve taken her away flynn charged where did you take her 11 if youre such good detectives defectives go find tier her lanny was getting her courage back again she did come here but 1 I fool enough to receive her slie she came c me in a car with two men and she did faint in my ay hallway and lie there tor for a little while of course she expected why I 1 cant imagine that id hide her and nurse her but ashes neither a friend nor a relative of mine she met we me once in doctor hurts burts office where I 1 an am employed and took a liking to me in her tunny funny way S ashes h es a psychoneurotic psycho neurotic personality she wrote me asking me to call upon her and I 1 tild did like a fool because 1 I felt sorry tor for her she should be in a sanitarium not a jail who brought her to doctor burts officer chief mcnamara flynn and Angello Argello tl sat up they glanced slowly at each other the old mans been up to his bis old tricks again said flynn what became of nance belden after you refused to receive her she left in the automobile lanny was careful not to state which automobile or whose youre an accessory to her escape it was your duty as a citizen to hold her here telephone police headquarters and have her taken down to the emergency hospital for treatment you can go to the pen for this get out of my house lanny commanded fiercely sure but you come with us thus Angello Arg elloU tl you cant arrest me without a warrant 1 I said before you aint such a good lawyer we can always pick up anybody that carries a gun without a permit into your hat and coat miss lanning Lanu ilag and come with us til ill telephone my lawyer and then go with you said lanny with dl dignity nothing doing flynn declared firmly you two dare lay hands bands on me and ill have you both broke understand be careful call up chief mcnamara before you get fresh with me the telephone la Is in the kit kitchen chem flynn went into the kitchen and called up dan mcnamara lie be was much subdued upon his return and lanny smiled ameled well get you yet ret he growled you must have bare a drag with the chief hes pulled us off the case good night when they had gone lanny put out the hall ball light and watched then them from behind the door cur curtain tala they crossed the street to their car climbed in and settled down for an all night vigil at a least last so lanny decided so she dragged the ball runner into the kitchen scrubbed the bloody spot thoroughly and dried it over the gas stove reviling herself the while 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 to the surprise of the machine gun ner chief dan mcnamara did not ask him a single personal question not even his name came nor did be question him regarding his wounded friend lie he and the chief partook of a breakfast which the tommy man prepared and discussed wounds batties and sudden death As the chief was leaving lie he gave the machine gunner a list of tradesmen who supplied his bis house and told him to telephone his orders when delivery was made they were to be left on a table in the basement and don I 1 you yoi answer the telephone and A nd dont show yourself outside or near nar the front windows he be warned the fellow nodded by Bs the way chief what going to become of that speed boat it belongs to co nance she bought it for forty five hundred dollars mcnamara Namara Hc sat gat down and looked his a amazement she paid forty five hundred dollars for that boat and yet she was ras doing time for pinching silk stockings I 1 dont like to ask you any quest questions lons you might be embarrassed to answer boy but today will be a total loss to me unless I 1 find out where she keeps her bank roll trances business an ill not discuss it she sent the check out in the letter her plan of escape who received the letteer A friend who showed it to us and we decided to help nance out we both owed her a debt we see no other way of gayln but you figure out the risks sure an discounted em cm machine gun fire aint no new thing to us we figured them guards topnotch top notch machine gunners anyhow that Is at long ranges they never expect to have to do anything but close range work they know how to handle their guns but they dont have their regular periods of target practice on the range like a soldier does in our boat beaded straight away from the fire are at forty five miles an hour it would take an expert to get on us an they know for sure whether we were accomplices or not until nance reached the boat and we started her in then of course let us have it but their first bursts on the boat were just as liable to be overs avers and shorts and wed have the girl a aboard b oard before they could correct there were eight other boats in the cove six of em cm was in our pay an they was strung long along in a line so close together that as we run down dovin the line 0 them the guards would hold their fire tor for fear W 0 innocent parties an we had another advantage that speed boat throws a wide white bow wave an the water tor for fifty feet behind her and twenty feet on each side Is a smother of foam when ashes doing her stuff bullets throw up any water that could be seen from a distance in the big spray when youre machine gunnin a fast movin target you got to see where your shots are drop drippin dropp pin ln it if youre coln to correct your range fast an accurately then we had another advantage the guards are in a watch tower on a hill or a high wall an 9 the early ranges be firla down hill bill even the work of an expert gunner at a a 0 0 0 0 0 41 this tag sore bore the initials N B down angle goes off considerable the cockpit was lined with steel so after the boy friend got nance aboard they flopped and were safe the only trouble was that the edge of one burst got cates before he could flop the front cockpit was steel lined too the man grinned sheepishly 1 11 I take that chance again chief those gunners were better than we figured them youre both men after my own heartwell take good care of your friends ive got to be on the job till midnight co tonight night illow how long you goin to keep us here you can bet your sweet life it wont be very long youre you re too dangerous to me in his official car driven by a policeman chauffeur mcnamara motored down to central station elation where he immediately ined mediately lately sent upstairs for nance bel dens record and photographs and proceeded to san quentin quentan ln did that belden girl who escaped yesterday leave anything in her cell letters photographs he asked the warden ive been in such a stew over her escape I 1 thought of investigating that ang angle le the warden confessed ten minutes later he be was in the cell carefully looking over the clothing nance belden had bad left behind her on a slip he found a small cloth covered metal rag such as dry cleaners clamp on garments to identify them this tag bore the initials N B inside and lust just below the collar of a worn tailored suit he found the silk ta tag g which tailors sew into the garments they manufacture this tag carried the name of 11 1 I abrahams ladles tailor san ri ernando avenue san jose jom he snipped this tag out of the coat and rummaged through a suitcase under the bed it contained a deck of playing cards some clot blog which yielded no clues and a blank check of the Security trust company of san jose nothing of interest in the girra girl abandoned effects ho be reported to the warden by the way I 1 want to have a chinchin chin chin with one of your prisoners benny beetle number 41 will you do me a favor benny the chief asked him when he be came in only one dan I 1 I 1 three well forget the other two and collect on one do you know the good conduct prisoner who works in the identification bureau the beetle nodded know i ow anybody whose time Is up op shortly my cell mate 0 if he could bring me word that the photographs fingerprints and bertil lon ion measurements of nance belden remember that name have my mysteriously sterl disappeared id be inclined to be his bis friend if he got into a jam later on and it too serious ill do what I 1 can for you chief ru ril ask bender nos hes assistant to the file clerk see him in the mess hall at noon and see somebody in the prison print shop probably running oft off placards to send to all the ille postmasters in the state where they ad vertise for escaped prisoners in post office lobbies cant let those placards with the halftone photos and Ber bernillon Bertl tillon llon measurements set get out you know goodby good by benny and thanks a lot from san quentin dan mcnamara motored down to san jose and called upon 1 I abrahams ladles ladies tailor mr abrahams have you ever made a tailored suit for a girl with a nose that something has smashed flat in the middle sure I 1 have abrahams replied you mean miss bliss penelope gatlin dont you abrahams looked in his card index cabinet then opened a large book in which he kept his customers measurements recorded together with a sample of the cloth from which each order has been cut dan mcnamara unhesitatingly placed his bis finger on one of these samples that was the cloth sure that was the suit I 1 made for miss gatlin two years ago did miss gatlin live in this city if so id like to have her address ten minutes later mcnamara was pressing the bell at the door of the house bouse in south mariposa Marl posa street streel does miss gatlin live here be queried not any more she used to live here with her mother but she disappeared about two years ago and her mother sold this house to the lady I 1 work for where Is mrs gatlin bowl we dont kaow thank you and mcnamara directed his driver to go to the security trust company where he sent his card I 1 into um to lo the president ile ete was received pro promptly aptly CHAPTER VI do you happen to have an account in the name of penelope gatlin chief mcnamara asked the banker both a trust account and a checking account chief we had her fa thera account for years before he was unfortunately killed in an automobile accident some eight years ago we had the account of his divorced wife tor for quite a while too but she has baa closed that ki V do you know where she lives at present 1 I do not he was interested but I 1 remember her quite well a very beautiful woman her first husband was a splendid chap retail shoe dealer in this city and very prosperous he and his wife bad a row and she divorced him and got the child gatlin was permitted by the court to have the child on two sunday afternoons a mouth month and one day he took her to a ball game and they sat in the bleachers A long hard ball flew into the bleachers and flattened the little girls nose gatlin rushed the unconscious child to a hospital and his ex wife came and took her hone home before anything but emergency treatment could be given catlin suspected she was going to try to cure that ruined nose by prayer so he the c child blid was caught arrested and did sixty days in the county jail while he was in jail mrs gatlin fled to europe with the little girl and catl gatlan in was desolated subsequently gatlin sold out his business made most of his bis estate liquid and esta established b a trust with us in favor of himself and his bis daughter lie he had made a settlement with mrs gatlin gatlan when his bis wife fled to europe with the child catlin ceased to deposit t the monthly check to her credit in the belief that shed write to know why she but lo in some other manner he be located her and started for europe with the intention of stealing the he little girl from lier her on the way to the station an automobile hit the tall he was in and catlin was killed did he leave a ollir 0 ile he did his ells daughter was his sole sola beneficiary we were the executors rid nd probated it there was the ten thousand dollar letter of credit he had purchased just before starting on his bis fatal trip and halt a dozen pieces of city realty which has since increased enormously in value we adver advertise for the heir but received no answer so the estate was closed and wi we handle it now as trustee illow how do you know mrs gatlin has bec become OM e mrs mr S alerton ll e erton arton TO BE BB CONTINUED |