| Show GOLDEN DAWN SYNOPSIS theodore gatlin adopts a baby penelope in an effort to tolva solve his hi matrimonial troubles but his wife has never neter wanted her bar and their aff affairs airs end in the divorce court at a baseball kame game a ball strikes ten year old penelope penalope on the nose mrs gatlin spirits the child to europe gatlin wills po pa calope all his money and Is I 1 about to i 1 begin a search tor for her when a motor accident ends his life s some ome ten years later in san francisco stephen burt rising young psychiatrist Is presented by dan mcnamara chief of police with a new patient nance belden a a girl w with ith a dual personality tor for w which aich her saddle caddie nose Is in part re responsible mcnamara does not think she to Is a criminal and obtains burts burls testimony in court lanny the doctors office nurse Is also won over nances bances criminal record outweighs doctor burts explanation of her case and she Is sent 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 goes to apartment prom from one of the men in the boat on which the girl escaped me tc kamara learns that cances nances real name is I 1 penelope gatlin he also discovers that penelope gatlin Is heiress to CHAPTER VI continued 13 she had leased the house gatlin gave her in the divorce settlement and about two years rears ago when the lease leas e expired and the old tenants departed she ehe come down here to have the place renovated and secure a new tenant it was only then that she heard of gat lans death she came to this bank with her husband making inquiries about Gat gallins lins estate and tried hard to get control of it brutshe but she was out of luck how we located the heir what were the conditions of the trust the income was to be permitted to accumulate and be reinvested and the child was to have two hundred and fifty dollars a month until her eighteenth birthday when the total income from the trust was to be turned over to her she can never touch the principal however although gatlin did provide that she might have up to ten thousand dollars of it at any one time it if in the judgment of the trustee ohp emergency requiring such withdrawal was deemed good and sufficient clent gatlin had falth faith that the real estate it held long enough would appreciate tremendously and it has the trust la Is now worth three quarters of a million and the income Is close to twenty thousand a year you say penelope gatlin has a chocking checking account also yes we deposit the income from the trust semi annually in her account has she ever asked for an emergency withdrawal of ten thousand dollars no Is her checking account active not very the cashier was speaking to me about it less than two weeks ago she draws checks sporadically her checking account has interested us considerably for the past two years because her monthly statement and dead checks have all been returned by the post office with the exception of about a dozen checks made out to local merchants and probably in payment of her bills miss bliss gallins Gat lins checks have all been in favor of one ella cates of san francisco we traced the cates woman down through the indorsements endorsements Indor on the checks but she stated she know miss bliss gallins Gat lins address that miss bliss gatlin visited her occasionally wrote out checks and asked her 0 ro o cash them for her at the local grocery store or drug store th these ese people stated that ella cates never received the money at once but that they collected the checks for her and then gave her the money I 1 dont like the looks of this chief ill soon find out all about it mcnamara promised ani and I 1 know where penelope gatlin Is only im not going to tell you now would you mind letting me look over her old bank statements and the dead checks the banker readily granted him the privilege and mcnamara went through the checks carefully noting those drawn in favor of ella cates the last one drawn was in favor of a man named hugh P taylor in sum of five thousand dollars and deposited deposit edby ty him to the credit of his account in the federal trust company of san F francisco ran 1 I have all the information I 1 want with this exception ne he drew forth one of the rogues gallery callery photographs made at the central station by the police photographer Is that penelope gatlin the girl chief Is she to in trouble with the police dan mcnamara laughed not at alt all ashes the sweetest little thin thing on earth the only trouble ashes been in Is that ashes been lost amnesia cant remember who she Is or anything about her past life lias has several aliases she uses at will how interesting and how sad neither interesting nor sad to mis me we handle lots of cases like this curable be good enough to regard this interview as strictly confidential of course courm it would be very embarrassing for the girl it if news of her unfortunate predicament should leak out tor for of course after her mind has been restored to its normal functions she will have no memory of the period in which she has been lost I 1 know a doctor that will fix her up in jig time and atter after hes done that the banker suggested have a plastic sur bur by PETER B KYNE copyright by ball syndicate service geon fix up her nose she used to be as lovely as a violet sorry about the nose mcnamara lied bed but ive had the best plastic surgeons to in town examine it and theres no hope lie he held out hla his hand thanks for your courtesy c our tesy youve been a great help meanwhile dont send out any more of those bank statements and dead checks hums blums the word back in san francisco mcnamara went directly to the city prison and looked over the blotter to see what strange fish his men had brought in during his bis absence ile he found a woman an old offender booked for drunkenness and ordered her sent to his office when she arrived he locked the door and fingerprinted her on the appropriate card after which he lectured her on the error of her ivans ways then he went upstairs to the identification bureau and asked the filing clerk to have out to him the filing cabinets cabanet containing criminal records for the years 1914 15 and 1916 he was searching for a face that was photographed on his remarkable memory and at last he be found it it was that of a young woman black haired and with a saddle nose but not quite so badly deformed as nance beldens beldena Bel dens nor did the contour of the face resemble nance beldens beldena Bel dens however since the original of that photograph had to the chiefs knowledge been dead six months he decided it would do ile he slipped this record into his breast pocket and went back to his office here he carefully removed the three photographs from the card to which they were pasted in a row across the top below the row of photographs appeared the typewritten crIm criminal loal history of the subject and in appropriate spaces on the reverse of the card appeared the subjects fingerprints mcnamara nara picked up the fresh card upon the reverse of which he had fingerprinted ger printed the woman who at times drank too much ile he placed this c card ard in the typewriter of his secretary who had bad gone tor for the day and carefully filled it in with nance beldens beldena Bel dens criminal record then he pasted over the E CH id recognize that dame now if she was burned to ashes thus Angello Angel loti tl top of this record the three photographs of the dead woman he had taken from the old flies files carefully burned all the evidence of the substitution went upstairs and handed the record to the clerk who replaced it in the files promptly at six thirty a knock sounded on his door and to his bis hearty come P flynn and A an entered 1 I sent for you two boys to tell you in no uncertain terms to lay off A miss rebecca lanning the chief began however wever I 1 owe it to you to tell you why miss bliss lanning Is a friend of mine of long standing and I 1 know she Is a worthy and dependable woman and absolutely sol truthful she interested in this girl nance belden it happened this way I 1 regarded that girl as a nut see and I 1 any confidence in the bone that does docs our in medico C di C 0 legal work so I 1 took nance up to see dr stephen burt miss bliss lanning la IQ ill his nurse she was very kind to the girl very understand understanding ing a and nd the belden brat got stuck on her she has an affection complex understand flynn and Angello tl had had to listen many a time and oft to dan me mc Na Nam araa maras dissertations on complexes in prisoners they nodded languidly now Ap apparently apparent paren aly tue the chief continued nance any friends the poor lonely kid remembered miss bliss lanning so she wrote and asked her to visit her in the pen and now the warden sw swears ears she smuggled out of san quentin a letter with nances bances plan of escape well maybe she did but if she did miss lanning know it now when the belden girl came to miss lannings home she realized she harbor her within a minute after the girl entered miss lanning had bad me on the phone ive just heard a thump out in the hall says she 1 I think the girls fainted better let me put her to bed chief and have doctor burt come over to bandage her wound then the ambulance can call for her in the morning 1 I thou thought ht that was waa a good idea W when hen sh she came back nance was just going out of the door miss lanning tried to stop her but her be boy y friends were still waiting and grabbed her and beat it the trouble was that miss lanning thought the girl was unconscious but nance heard her and bent beat it now its up to you two to find her now how long have you known miss lanning quite a while BIc mcnamara Namara lied well even if she Is a friend of yours chief ashes no clinging vine well leave her alone broin from now on and dont waste your time watching her house the belden devil wont come back there again another thing we have criminals loose in our midst who are more important than a poor nut of a girl that only swiped a mess of silk stockings so dont get excited and waste much time that will be all boys outside of chief maras office door detective sergeants Sergeon ts flynn and Ancello Angello tl looked at each other lies iles up to his old tricks amadeo 1 always feeling sorry for the under dog pat ile he makes me sick ill bet a months salary he knows where the golden belden girl arl Is this minute lm im not quitting such a hot scent par well just split that two hundred and fifty dollar reward and see how bow the chief likes it that old lanny girl warned vs its to step softly or shed have us broke she well where does she get her drag with the old man A Angello Angel lorl tl jumped to the natural conclusion of his kind ashes got something on him I 1 suppose sure she has she knows he knows where ashes hirthe body weve got to see the belden girls photograph and thumb prints and der ber tallon measurements in the upper office they went up to the identification bureau called for the record of nance belden and studied it for a couple of minutes id recognize that dame now it if she w was as burned to ashes thus angel flynn drew his partner into a corner the girl was wounded we know that from tie the guard that shot her and were sure of it after looking at the blood in that speedboat it if shed bled that much all by herself shed never have gotten ashore us un der her own power put pat im inclined to think one of the crew got lilt hit too theres hope for the dagges yet my boy youre right it stands to reason some doctor fixed then them up now then what doctor dr stephen burr ang Angello elloul tl decided 1 I it t stands to reason that it if tills this doctor burt dressed their wounds last night hell call on his patients every day until out of danger if we catch him at his dirty work there ought to be a little something in this on the side amadeo P r flynn thought that thai a thousand each would be a very modest sum to charge stephen burt for their silence very modest an hour later they pulled up in front of stephens house and behind a coupe parked at the curb flynn circling around it noticed a red cross on the radiator they ley circled the block and returned to park at the lower edge of the block at a quarter past eight they saw stephen come out bag in hand enter his hia coupe and drive away so they followed him and came in time to dan maras house into which they saw him enter as they rolled slowly past ue ile had bad a latch key lie he ring the bell an no II 11 lights lits in the front 0 the house Angello tl cried excitedly drive back pat and ill get the number that house flynn informed hini him dramatically Is the habitat of ills royal highness daniel mcnamara Namara SIc chief of police of san francisco I 1 always knew hf he was a fox but I 1 never suspected he was fool enough to lime hide an escaped convict in his own house Angello tl was excited but like all smart italians he was not impulsive except when lie he was in a tight fight or angry this pinch will keep several flights because some 0 these birds aint in no condition to be moved this situation Is ticklish an re requires calm at an mature deliberation claybe youre right at that ama deo well well stick round a while they stuck around half an hour be fore doctor burt came out and drove away drop oft off an watch the house flynn suggested to his er fin an ril follow his nibs ill be back later ile he trailed stephen burt burr to the lat tera home and saw him pull up across the sidewalk preparatory to opening the door of his garage so flynn rolled past circled picked up angel hotl at the end of the block after you an the doe doc left I 1 went up to the corner drug store and phoned the chiefs house but nobody answered Angello Ange llod tl confided the gangs in there all right im as nervous as an old woman flynn confessed 1 I wish I 1 had a drink TO BE CONTINUED |
