Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1930, Page 26

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1930. B e 5 from me and don't let that fellow| “Exactly. Thank you, Blethen. Still,|“Friend of yours?” she queried with-| “Lannyl” Stephen reproved her.| “Please bring the patient in, Lanny,” 3 McNamara sell himself to you. If you|a blind pig will sometimes find a corn, | eringly. Then to Dan McNamara: “Do you|Stephen pleaded. “And then you GOLDEN DAWN do, he'll keep you busy. I doubt if ahy|and something he sald—good-by. “Yes” McNamara admitted, “and|mean to tell me you left her out there ml.m,_._" eloquently st mm on earth can run & criminal down| Lanny entered. “There’s a young g:cu ‘:’uwbuuax: Bring her in and|unguarded? How would you explain her m o glasses. hnn! glared :; v amara; ” - ive her once over.” By PETER B. KYNE A e e i, 0 oneyia | yutman 1n the waliing Toom.” she &b | M, by, shook her. heed) ~This| Srocre | had chosen to disap- | Giar: *But” she went on mumbiing, ¢ ; but after he's landed | Jounced. “She said to me, Uy |ut shop s, closed for the day,” she o Dan McNamara shook his head a yegg in hi he develops an ab- | hell's that bonehead of & chief gone’?”|told him. “Bring her aroun T didn't think she'd duck, doc. But | sagely. “Nothing wrong with that wom- normal yearning Ind out what made | Lanny looked at Dan McNamaré se-|o'clock tomorrow. The doctor hu H even if she tried it, I got & pllinclothu an’s thinking apparatus,” he informed 1930.) Ropprristt. that way. Mac's a softy. verely over the rims of her spectacles. | minutes then.” man on guard.” Stephen. marry her. He was so kind and sym- pathetic Lanny knew he would marry her, just to keep her from feeling Mly “Damn his sympathy,” she growled, as she prepared the drinks in an inner room. “That's why he’s worked to death. He'll die young—overwork—an- glnn the young fool! That big, fresh, eavy-footed cop! How dare e force his way tn—;;:l: big buleAnd getting a drink for dirty worl b.she sniffed and served the high- "lo "zvlnlelllm: faith “Youre mighty sweet, Lanny,” Dr. rmoved her from the hospital Burt told her. NOW run along home.” 'f.'.“ her former busbend had Burs | Lanny did not go. She knew that b e vomod ne would find her. | moocher of & cl et of police woul 'mu(n;y willed F[en:- praise such old liquor and 1}:1“ host would offer him a second helping. e e yo.Tye got a girl down at Centrai Sta- 1o T 6 Burt te- Dan McNamara was saying. ‘:., e s s shap-mnng detail picked her up in & falist in neurology and | department store where she'd pinched a %‘:’,‘{“ fis ofice nurse was the ef- | dozen and a half silk stockings. Petit m,,,,,,,“,,hw,'sz;'.“ orom her |larceny and caught with the goods. I ‘hll lun :l)‘l"(h‘° her ol ol B witey ¥ho airs - WoODWARD & LOTHROP 10™ 11" F aND G STREETS Annual After-Christmas Reductions Tetired fr 811 his money. sent & good man around to try to square !Nl‘l‘A!mN'l‘ IL \UCCESS was Stephen's. Modest at first, of course, but of rapid fi'm' and Lanny knew why. Ne‘nB fell in love with him him to their m In two years Stephen Burt had re- pald Lanny with interest; the thh’d Fear he moved into new, sunny, roo and beautifully furnished offices, wl!h & waiting room as large as all of his 4 g:'b\u offices had been. He joined ‘best club in town, he joined & coun- try club and resolutely Lanny drove Rim out of the office on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons to play golf. She denied M¥m the privilege of naming his own fees because she knew they would be too modest; she kept his free list to & minimum; knowing all his friends, she supervised his social duties; she kept his Books and was a very devil of a col- ; she wrote all his business let- ters and signed them for him; she in- wvestéd his money for him and, since she was no mean psychologist, she could read a woman patient as she would a book. She was his Admirable Crichton, and he rewarded her with his confi- dence, et&l]a L::;fl:\ntelrrlendsmp and a_perfectly g salary raise each Christmas. He always kissed her at 6 o'clock on the twenty-fourth day of December in each year for the five years preceding the late Winter afternoon when Mr. Daniel McNamara called in behalf of the case with the department store peo- ple, but they insist on pressing the charge, and that's too bad, because she's got a couple of priors against her. Out on probation—suspended sentence, you understand, doc. And now she’ll do two years in the Big House. 'S tough on the girl. “What's your interest in her, if she's a confirmed thief?” ell, maybe she wouldn 't be a thief if she'd had the breaks,” he defended. mebody must have given her & sweet bust on the nose, because her beak’s been broke and nothing's left of it but a saddle.” *Is she tough?” “Is she tough? Doc, she's so tough I know it ain't natural. A girl as tough as her must be loony. But there ain’'t nothing tough about her eyes or her mouth—and that's where you can always find toughness that's been bred in the bone. There's some- thing about this girl that's different, doc. I don’t know what it is, but I know this much: she wasn't always tough. I want you to give her the once over.” “T understand there is & psychologist and psychiatrist—Dr. Blethen—who does all of the medico-legal work for the department chief. I wouldn't care to examine the girl except on his in- vitation.” “Yes, I know. 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Form Millinery Salon Hats Reduced ya ¢35 25 s *10 MrLLiNeRY, THIRD FLOOR. : Stephen Burt rose and bowed to her. glance faded, and she smiled. the strangest patient Lanny’s boy had aches, pains and itton under the desk, .| physically healthy. He says she's got ' Vassar. She must be smart, too, be- Instantly the frozen hostility in her of grand theft. I know Blethen. I've tried him and he says this girl is a natural hoodlum, and mentally and more intelligence than any 10 girls in | cause she told him he was a fool, and I agree with her.” Dr. Burt was silent, for he was in- tensely ethical and would not criticize a fellow doctor. | “I've _heard a lot about you,” the chief of police continued. “You're re- garded as the best psychiatrist and Burt, a;lurolomz in San PFrancisco. So don't | essage to Lanny, adding " Still Lanny did not appear, so he said with his disarming le: “Mrs. Merton, the 5 o'clock tle has blown, and I can’t listen to another word. Tve just remembered & most pressing engagement, so now if alvgo not to ,at once T shall have to nehldherb the arm and out the caor berm she eould think of another ’rheu he locked the door, 'AJ on the desk and led lnd li‘h his pipe, just as the h his nurse’s office opened and ‘m lo sorry, but Prof. Finne- ‘She’s .ong Where did you go, leav- | me here to suffer?” “l was in the waiting room, pla- nuln%m insistent visitor. I told dd gone for the day, but he k to me about the capable Doc. Blethen. I want you to look this girl | over.” | " His huge face brightened as he sum- moned a thought that would bolster uj his plea. “She don’t cuss me, doc. I've asked her all about herself, and I'm sure she tells me all she knows, | but she don't know anything. She’s bound to like you, doc and when she likes anybody—now, doc, I've got a notion you can get her confidence to | such an extent you can prong down into her soul and locate the trouble. I hear men like you do things like | that nowadays.” Dr. Burt smiled. “Sometimes we | uncover complexes or mental reflexes: ‘ frequently we do not. And when we | have uncovered them we cannot always | |cure them. You say this girl has a | ruined nose? Does it affect her ap- | | pearance greatly?” “She's ugly when you look at her the first time, doc, but after you've | talked with her and looked some more the shock sort of wears off notion that if her nose some sort of police badge at me, said he wase't nutty and that his b!lnu- was private.” ver you admit a person is private and personal called upon for mental and effect sans a fee, Lanny. I'm you need. dearie.” sald a nk:e long, cool Bourbon | highbal while you re on the job, get , 100,” a deep voice spoke from | door behind he fl'llt Dolme person,” Lanny lice person agreed and even if I am a rt to be fooled by the any woman. How are you, { " he murmurred. “Worn to & talking sanely to the insane the semi-sane, the sub-normal and abnormal. You appear sanc, officer. you T'd be afraid to take a bet I am, I handle my share of nuts, too, there's times they make me think bugs instcad o' them. My name’s _chl‘n ra and I'm the chief of B". down, chief. Drag over that| fl!;!‘ smiled at Lanny and | hlfl up two ‘That smile lne"cd her. I'. Alluyi did. | For five years she had been trying to bully him, and his smile M ll‘::y:'de- 35 18" ggii_s | straightened up she’d be a good. | looking girl. And maybe if her mind cnuld be straightened she'd be a good | girl an anything about her ante- cedents, her background?” “I don’t know and I can't find out. She won't tell me.” “It may be” Dr. Burt suggested, “that she doesn't know. Has Blethen ‘fln hed with the case?” “Yes, sir. He told me not to bother | him about her no more.” | Dr. Burt indicated his telephone. “Call hirm up, chief, and ask him if he has any objection to having me give | her an unofficial examination.” McNamara did so. Following a brief conversation he turned the telephone over to Stephen. Stephen took the telephone. “Dr. Blethen? Burt speaking. The chief came to my office about that girl he has at the Central Station. Notwith- | standing your report, he has asked me, | as a personal favor to him, to see girl. You understand, however- > “Yes, I understand. Burt, she's a bad “Something the chief said has mildly | aroused my curiosity. If you would cnr:l to invite me to discuss her case—un- |derstand I have no desire to in- trude—" “I'm through with her, Burt. Help yourself, old man. However, take a tip tables of four among your friends, now. 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