Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1931, Page 24

GOLDEN By PETER (Copyright. TN WIOHE OB TAN trimo- mum adopted & " not. shelicr her eniiqnood ot shelter he “‘hm c‘“.‘ma of his wife, who had ever wanted her. The'divorce. court warded the custoay of 10-year-old Pen- lope to Mrs. Gatlin, except for two Sun; eir 0 her. Mrs. » Gatlin “iold his business. wille to Penelope and was sia Im( rch for her when he I fife in & motor ccident. Some 10 years later. in’ San Francisco, & _rising young psyehia< Dan McNamara, chief of po: % Pt noc hink she Was Tesponsibie 5 extérior, Her criminal record outweighed Dr. Burt's clear explanation of her case she was sent lo San Quentin Penl; for two years. Lanny visited € her to smugsle fout u letter, which & confederate stole om her handbag outside the prison although shot, by walls. Nance escaped, d_Chief McNama 3 ! 0 or # dered her to brine Nance to his Apar < ment and phoned for Dr. Burt. INSTALLMENT IX. HILE Lanny was assisting D: Burt in dressing Nance Bel- : den’s wound, Dan McNamara | 3 b sat in his plain little living | 3 room and read the story of | r escape from San Quentin. ap- | gared lg:t throughout all of Sunday afternoon two men, in a motor boat, | had been anchored in the cove off Polnt San Quentin, apparently fishing for striped bass, which abound at this par- | ticular point on San Francisco Bay. There were other boats anchored there | also—eight in all. The guard at the | entrance to the women's quarters had rved them, but as they were a| n sight, he paid no lttentlon w ~m, until, about 4:30 p.m., just be fore locking-up time a guard in one of the lookout towers on the hill had telephoned him that & boat had ap- pruched close to the shore. ard had thereupon stepped out {‘l‘ k and around to the relr of whlch faced toward the beach, less thirty feet distant. He had uted at the men in the boat and ed them to be off, th}:t&:{y Yere mot permitted to approac! close, that they were within the dead line. To this the men replied that they €ouldn’t help it; that their motor had e dead, and that the tide had set em in; that they were trying to make xey?;n and would be off as soon as they ‘eoul While the guard was in the rear of his station engaged in this conversation, Nance Belden had approached the gate, Ricked off her shoes and, digging her toes into the quarter-inch wire mesh of the 16-foot gate, had scrambled to the top with incredible rapidity. She was just climbing down the outside of the gate when the guard in the tower on the hiil saw her and immediately telephoned to the guard at the main , also to the guard arguing with men in the motor boat. Upon hur- ing the telephone bell ringing in station, that guard had walked blck into it; at the same time, keeping the Kiosk between her and the a) hing guard, Nance Belden had dashed down 1 the beach and commenced swimming Tapidly toward the motor boat, the mo- tpr of which instantly started and the Boat commenced edging in to pick "’v’vix‘é" the d in the kiosk, 3 n guard in Prised of what was taking place, ran oue with a rifle in his hand and shouted to Nance Belden to come back or he ‘would shoot her, a machine gun in the motor boat promptly came into action him. He had not been hit, but & shower of bullets had spattered the fired once at the Belden woman d hit her, but immediately thereafter, rful of being killed, hfl had thrown imself flat on the gro ‘The guard in the “k:h ‘tower on the 1l had then brought his machine gun to action. His first burst had been ort and drew answering fire from the ‘hine gunner in the boat. Although range was 400 yards, the first burst the motor boat tore through the n watch tower, which rather dis- the aim of the guard there. ertheless, the latter stuck to his Wuad to fire, spattering bullets d the swimming girl and Into the mmhthebo.tdidnothul- tate, byt came on through the hail al- bullets. ‘The escaping prisoner had in| the meanwhile either sunk or dived; at| any rate, & widening tinge of red ap-| peared on the water. She was down sbout 30 seconds, then her head emerged close to the boat, and she swam with one arm to the side of it. A man reached over and grasped her un- Qr both arms and jerked her into the mt, which instantly turned, put on ‘speed and raced away, close past tWo other bolh Fearful of killing in- ribcent_people, the guard in the watch | tower held his fire until the escaping | boat was in the clear. Then he and the guard in another tower came into agtion again. But a target moving at| Lmedo!“ miles an hour is not easily hit. The fire was either over or short, | lafl the boat did not stop. When it ‘wes out of range it turned and in the rapidly mflnz light of the Winter day headed up into San Pablo Bay, running | close to the south shore to avold the chop of the es in this shallow ex- rnu of w . They ran without ights. While the course they had taken would seem to indicate a desire to run up Carquinez Straits to the Sacramento of the San Joaquin rivers, land and egcape in a waiting automobile into Central California, the warden realized that his quarry was not lacking in in- telligence; that fast as they fied they | would realize that the -telephone is| faster; that the roar of their motor | must betray them a mile away. He had therefore taken the precaution to notify | the chiefs of police of Pittsburg, Mar- | tinez, Sausalito, Richmond, Berkeley, | Osakland and San Francisco, leaving 0 these the task of notifylog intermediate | points. ‘The varden had a suspicion the fugitives would double back to San Prancisco, particularly since the girl| was wounded and must be hidden in order to receive medical attention. | “And here she is,” Dan McNamara muttered. _“Cripes, what a woman! | Lord, how T love a woman with brains Just a little, simple mat- ter of taking pains and ‘taking risks. She didn't go into the dining hall for dinner with the other prisoners. Smart! Knew she couldn't make a fast swim on | a full stomach. Smart enough to notice | the warden's oversight in falling to fill 11 with barbed wire topping that 18-inch | e at the top of his gate. Of course, ey figured they needn’t bother with | Y-lu because no woman could climb a 18-foot wire mesh fence, anyhow; and if she did, she'd only drop down into | the waiting arms of the guard, who is never absent, night or day. But Nance | iden knew she could climb that fence | refoot; she knew she had 30 seconds | 10 do it and a drop on the other side | from the top of the gate. Her job was 18 induce the guard to turn his back—| llfl her friends in the boat did that! “She knew she'd been seen from the | watch tower on the hill and the &d( | { | | SKIN need not be chapped MENTHOLATUM keeps skin soft and smooth DAWN B KYNE 1930 at the gates notified by ul:phone As he returned from the edge of the beach around the south side of his kiosk Nance slipped by~ him on the north side and was in the water as the guard took up the phone. Smart! She knew no guard will stick under machine-gun fire at 50| yards merely to stop a woman convict escaping from prison. Smart! Sank | and swam under water—and then the zigzag coursé between the boats of the | other fishermen after they picked her up. Fine psychology—she engineered it all, and I know she’s a nut! And then 'straight to Lanny for medical attention—straight to the one human being she knew she could trust. No, Tl not send her back. And I don't particularly want to catch her friends, either. I'll say they're friends! Wish I had a couple of friends that'd come on through machine-gun fire for me. I had thought the world was selfish and THE NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JA NUARY 2, 1931 - EVENI cruel and thieving and lying, but there's nobility left in it after Btercn Burt cams obt of the bed room and sat down and stared at the chief ‘of police with grave interest , my good Javert,” he said pres- “Your good what?' who Javert was?” Dan McNamara shook his head. never picked him up, Doe.’ “You wouldn't. He was a character “y Hugo. He was a fly cop in Paris, and he pursued an ex-convict named Jean Valjean for 20 years becauss he be- lieved the man Wwas a crook. Once a crook, always a crook, was Javert's philosophy. “And when he discovered |last he had the goods on Jean Val | jean and it was his duty to arrest him, | he discovered simultanecusly that Jean Valjean was also a good and noble man, which proved extremely embarrassing to Javert.” “I understand hew that could be, all right, doc. What did Javert do then?” “He climbed up on the railing of a bridge over the Seine, unpinned his shield, threw it into the river and jumped in after it.” “He committed suicide in order to give his man the breaks.” “I called you Javert. Don't you know | in ‘Les Miserables,’ a novel by Victor | ‘Exactly.” “Well,” Dan McNamara decided ter pondering this a half minute. wouldn’t be boob enough to do tha He should have made a stool pigeon out of Jean Valjean, and maybe he'd have gotten somewhere in his job.” Stephen smiled. He liked this heavy man with the Celtic face as inscruta- ble as a Chinaman’s. As a specialist in mental diseases he knew the part heredity plays in the formation of character, and one did not have to look at the chief twice to know that | | he came of courageous ancestry. No | vague fears or anxieties in this fellow, Stephen thought. Courageous men are usually honest men; are not honest they are sufficiently | courageous to pay the price, no matter their eyes open—to pay it cheerfully and refrain thereafter from whimper- ing. “So you're going to protect this girl, are you, chief?” “Yeah!” A throaty growl. “Got to, doc. Got to protect society.” Stephen looked puzzled, so the chief continued. “If I let that girl graduate from San Quentin she’ll come out with a broader knowledge of crime and trickery and greater contempt for society than when she went in. The only kind of criminal I fear is the sm: I even when they T how high, for the things they do with | can always catch the boobs promptly, bu‘ sometimes it takes a long time to get acquainted with the artistic genlus of a real craftsman. They're like writ- ers, Doc. They have a style all their own, d you've go to learn their style. And about the time you think you've learned it, you pick up some bird that's guilty and he isn’t the man you thought he was. “He's_just stolen his master's stuff Nance Belden is too brilllant to turn loose on the world, doc. She's a leader, a leader of men. She’d make the balls; and her crew would fire them and always be covered up.” He ruffled his pompadour. “Well, doc, |Ive gotten her away from her gang She's lost them and they've lost her. And they must never get her back.” "x{ould you like to know who they I'm normally curious.” said Stephen. | looked | f course. find out for you, Dan McNamara doubtful. “Nance will tell me.” “You're crazy, doc. You don’t know the code. They dle, but they don’t squeal. There is honor in their dis- honor, and in their weakness there is ¢ strength that amazes me.” “She wouldn't do it voluntarily, of course, but just now, in her weakened 'm sure I could hypnotize he; Get her to look fixedly into a mirror, g:,u know, like this. Once I secure con. of her sul mind lhe'll answer my questions. And after I wake her up she'll have complete amnesia for the experience. She will never know she peached on her pals.” (To be continued.) 250 VETERANS LISTED TO LEAVE NATIONAL HOME Leavenworth Group Under Bureau Orders—Legion Aiding Those TUnable to Pay Own Fare. By the Associated Press. | LEAVENWORTH, Kans., January 2.— Some 150 veterans of the World War are preparing to leave the National Military Home here January 5 in com- pliance_with an order from the Vet- erans’ Bureau. 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