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jJT A., , *? iV ii*.' . r ' " ^ . -m^. ?> ? .?^ 5'"':' ? . . f ?, . jf .,^1 | WNXHUrrto* 1 i:-^ ? ' TlIP DTADV ' V," "5r m , r L ?y^?Td^^Wt fcop,ttat l?t b*z& oo&kq fl sucker out or yon. y nk^?shook Ik Ism^ rii ^ If toke me back. ,.00i li ,,,,,, .,w. .. ..iiiji iiin. r.r, M She turned her bead toward Ignny. "Aw I going to die. Lenny r ?Nuked. ?"?. ??Not unlesa 1 klU yon?which Tin liable to 4q If you don't buck np god believe what J tell you. You've been short but It doean't amount to much. You'll be all right In a week a? two." ? ?Thqp IU be good, Lanny- The 1 ttred eyes closed and while Lenny stood by, wondering what to say next. . Nance sank Into a sleep of profound exhaustion.. , *Let :-^he* alone nnUl Btevle comes,- La tmy suggested. "The wound has stopped bleeding. Come oat Into the living room and if ; aHl'rs as crooked; a cop as you ought to be you've got llqnor In the house, sod I've got to havo a drink of It" Her middle-aged face waa very so .Thoaeeopeat your house will stick around, Lanoy. and when you ?liiurn they'll want to know where you've been. What are you going to tell them?* "Tell them nothing. Let those two cops ait in their car in front of my house all itfght and watch tt What do I care? At least they'll heap burglar# away. ,And s'Wbap finally they do round me op and waltz me down to central station to be questioned, you'll do the ques tioning, will yon not?" -,/v <?> ;. , ^fLanny.'' said Dan McNamSra, "If you were a man and on4be forca T*., m*ks??. Olrf. Dark rd make you a detective sergeant. You're a bear-oet, that's what you are]. But yon smuggled that lette* out of San Quentln for Nance and turned It over to Sapphire Susie I "Maybe you didn't know It, but you gave Sapphire Susie a lift to sam car from the main gate at San. Quantln down to Gfeenbrae. The fpvd remembered seeing her han? ing aroupd the main gate. a?lf she. was waiting for somebody; later she got into a coupe with a middle-' aged lady, who looked sorespect ?hle he took another look at toe pass, she had. Just surrendered to him and remembdrd that toe name on toe pass was yours. The pass en titled-you to visit Nance BeTden. Guards may not remember such in cidents until, some thing happens. Then'they're fast on their feet. **Antf who. If joo please, la Jfeap phlfp Sorter ? "She did a stretch In 8an Quen tln for blackmail. She was dis charged a week before yon ylalted Nance, and before Susie left the Big Boose, Nance fixed It with her to tend a helping hand. Apparently Nance didn't want to confide the minute details of her plan of escape to Susie. Susie's a swell looker but a little bit dumb?she levied blackmail through the mall, onder stand, and algned her name, Instead of hiring a smart shyster lawyer. So Nance decided to send, bar written Instructions out by you, and Susie t agreed to Dick yon ub. cinch the let ?? '*2 - ' tor and deliver it." "Dan, I assure you I wasn't In any plot to effect a prison delivery. If I'd thought for an Instant I was doing anything wrong?why, Nance told me to read her letter and If I disapproved of Us contents to de stroy it | didn't see any harm In that* "You violated the rules of the prison and you could be punished for It by a term In the same prison." "I'm a respectable woman?" 'That gets you nowhere. I was a respectable chief of police once? and now look at me. If yoar part In this leaks oat you can only be punished?and you can't be convict ed ubleaa you talk In your sleep. If my part In this should leak out HI be punished and disgraced and thrown out of the beet Job I fever bad. However?" he raised bis glass to her?"mud In your eye, Lanny." "Happy days, Dan, you gorgeous softy." The doorbell rang. Den opened It and Dootor Burt stepped In. Be paused In amazement at sight of Lanny, glass In hand; she motioned him wltti It down the hall. "First door at the end. Sterlx You'll And your patient there." "That girl with the dissociated per* sonallty, Nance Belden, escaped from San Quentln late this after noon, Chief," Stephen began, and handed the fatter a newspaper. "Big story. First .woman to escape from San Quentln." He gazed se verely npon Lanny. "What are you doing here,.Lanny?" "All h?1 to pay, Stevle dear, and no pitch hot. That Belden girl v In here with a bullethole In her shoul der; She's suffering from shock and submersion and chill and loss of blood and she's cold as a penguin's tall. I've given her a stiff noggin of Dan's terrible booze anal a for tieth of a grain of strychnin and an alcohol rub. She's sleeping. Did you bring those hot-water bottles?" "Yes," he said humbly. Indicating a bag he carried. Lanny fell npon the bag. and retired to the kitchen to fill the hot-water bottles and tuck them In alongside her child patient "Lucky If she- doesnt develop pneumonia, Stevie." Doctor Burt stood looking down at the sleeping Nance. "Out of the warden's arms and straight Into yours. You guessed She'd call on Lanny, eh. Dan. yon're an old fox." "No, Doc, I'm not A fox has brains." "He's a lamb, Stevle, just a big rani, lamb," , While Lanny was assisting Doc tor-Burt In dressing Nance Belden's wound, Dan MeNamara sat In his plain little living room and read the story of her escape from San Quen tln, It appeared that throughout, all of Sunday afternoon two men. In a motorboat, had been anchored in the cove off San Quentln apparently fishing for striped bass, which abound at this particular point In San Francisco bay. There were oth er boats anchored, there also?eight In all. The guard at the entrance to the women's quarters had ob served them, nntll, about four-thir ty p. m., Just before locktng-up time a. guard In one of the iookont tow ers on the hill had telephoned him that a boat had approached close to the sho^ftL ; - . The guard had thereupon stepped out of his kiosk and around .to the rear of It, which faced toward the beach, less than thirty feet distant He had shouted at the men in the boat and warned them to be off. that they were not permitted to approach that close, that they were within the. deadline To this the men re? piled that they couldn't help It; that their motor had gone dead and that the tide had set them in; that they were trying to make repairs and would be off as soon as they could. While the guard was In the rear of his station, engaged to this con-' versatlon, Nance Belden had ap proached the grate.' kicked off her sboea and. digging her toes Into the quarter-Inch wire mesh of the six teen-foot gate, had scrambled to the top with Incredible rapidity. She waa Just climbing down, tho outside of the gate when the guard In the tower on the hill saw her and Im mediately telephoned to the guard mt ttie infalii gate; also to ttie guard arguing with the men In the motor boat. Upon bearing the telephone bell ringing in his station, that guard had walked back Into It; at the aame time, keeping the kiosk between her and the approaching guard, Nance Belden had dashed down to the beach and commenced swimming rapidly toward the motor boat, the motor of which Instantly started, and the boat commenced edging Ip to pick her up. When the guard In the kiosk, ap prised of what waa taking place, tan out with a rifle In hla hand and. Shouted to Nance Belden to come back or he would ahoot her, a ma chlne^gun In the motor-boat prompt ly came Into action against him. lie bad not been hit, but a shower of bul ' lets had spattered the ground around and In front of him and another burst had gone over his head and through the sentry box. The guard had fired once at the Belden woman and hit her, but Immediately there after, fearful of being killed, he had thrown himself flat on the ground. . The guard In trfe watch-tower on the hill had then brought his ma chine-gun Into action.. His first burst had been short, and drew an swering fire from the machine gun ner In the boat Although the range was four hundred yards, the first burst from the motor-boat tore through the wooden watch-tower, which rather distracted the aim of the guard there; nevertheless, ? the .latter stuck to bis gun and contin ued to fire, spattering bullets around the swimming girl and Into the boat. The men In the boat did not hesi tate, but came on through the hall of bullets; the escaping prisoner had In the meanwhile either sunk or dived; -at any rate a widening tinge of red appeared on the water. She was down about thirty seconds, then her bead emerged close to the boat, and she swam with one arm to the Side of It; a man reached over and grasped her nnder both arms and Jerked her Into the boat, which Instantly turned, pnt on full speed and raced away close past two other boats. Fearful of killing Innocent people, the guard In the watdh-tower held his fire until the escaping boat was In the clear; then he and the guard In. another tower came Into action again. But a target moving at a speed- of forty-* five mllee an hour is not easily hit; the fire was either over or short and the boat did not'stop. When ft was out of range, it turned and In the rapidly fading light of the Winter day, headed up Into San Pablo bay* running close to the south shore to avoid the chop of the waves In this shallow expanse of 'water. They ran without lights. / | wniie the course they had taken I would seem to Indicate a desire to L run up Oarqulnez straits to the Sac- I I ramento or the San Joaquin rivers, I I land and escape Sn a waiting auto-1 ! mobile Into central California, the I warden realized that hla qnarry was I pot lacking in Intelligence; that, 1 1 fast as they fled, they would realize] ] that the telephone Is faster; that j the roar of their motor must betray j I them a mile away.' He had, there-- ] | fore, taken the precaution to notify j.the chiefs of poUce of Pittsburg, | Martines^ SausaUto, Richmond. | | Berkeley, Oakland and San Prancis | co,. leaving to these the task of no- | .tlfyjng Intermediate points. The | warden had a suspicion the fugitives 1 ] would double back to San Francls | co, particularly since the girl was | wounded and njust be hidden In . or der to receive medical attention. | "And here she. Is," Dan Mc Namnra muttered. "Qrlpes, what a Woman 1 Lord; how I love a woman with brains and courage. Just a lit tle simple matter of taking pains and taking risks. She didn't go In | to the dining hall for dinner with | the other prisoners. -Smart I Knew ] she couldn't make a fast swim oh a full stomach. Smart enough to no ] tice the warden's oversight to fill In | with barbed wire topping that elght | een Inch space at the top of his | ] gate. Of course they figured they needn't bother with that, because | no woman could climb a sixteen-foot ] wire mesh fence anyhow, and If she | ' did she'd only drop down Into the ? waiting arms of the guard, who la t never absent, night or day. Hut Nance Belden knew she could climb that fence barefoot; she knew alio had thirty seconds lo do It and a drop on the other slde?from the top of the gate. Her Job was to Induce the guard to turn hie back?and her friends In the boat did that I "She knew she'd been seen from the watch-tower oh the hill aud the guard at the gates notified by tele phone; as he returned from the edge of the beach, around the south tide of his kiosk, Nance slipped him kon the north side and was In the water as the guard took up the 'phone. Smart! She knew no guhrd would stick under machine gun fire at fifty yards, merely to stop a woman convict escaping from prison. Smart I Sank and swam under water?and; then the zigzag course between the boats of the other fishermen, after they picked her up". Fine psychology--she en glneered It all?and I know she's a nut I And then straight to l/anny for medical attention?straight to the one human being she knew she could trust?no, I'll 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!' Stephen Burt came out of the bed room and sat down and stared at the chief of police with grave *n terest "Well, ray good Javert/' he said presently. "Your" good what?" "I called you Javerl. Don't yon know who Javert waB?" Dan McNamara shook his head. "I never picked him up. Doc." "You wouldn't., He was-a charac ter In 'Lea Miserables,' a novel by Victor Hugo. Hey was a fly-cop In Paris, and he^pursued an ex-convict named Jean Valjean for twenty years, because he Relieved the man was a crook. Once a crook, always a crook, was Javert's philosophy. And when he discovered at last he had the goods on Jean Valjean and It was his duty to arrest blm. he discovered simultaneously that .lean -???, yv- , 1.?rr "I N?v?r Picktd Him Up, Doc." Valj^an was also a good and no ble^ nan, which proved extremely embarrassing to Javert" t "I understand how that could be, ^ all right, Dpc. 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." "Exactly." "Well," Dan McNamara decided after pondering this a half minute, "I wouldn't be boob enough to do that He should have made a stool pigeon out of Jean Valjean and may be he'd have gotten somewhere In his (Continued next week.) ~ I
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