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he did not state where he had been in
the habit of spending his evenings so
suspiciously. He couldn't afford to. He
was a prominent business man. How
ever, the Judge should have known.
Probably he did, but even so he was
the divorce, liberal alimony and the
custody of Penelope; whereupon the
honorable court was treated to the
spectacle of Mr.. Gatlin and Penelope
weeping in each others arms. However,
Mr.. Gatlin was permitted to have
Penelope to himself two Sunday after
moons in each month and one-half Of
each school vacation.
The first Sunday afternoon Mr.. Gatlin
availed himself of this privilege his
quondam spouse had Mysteries for with
the malevolence of a devil Mr. Gatlin
announced he was taking Penelope to
q ball game. He took her, too, and
they had q gorgeous time together until
a home run sailed into the bleachers
and struck Penelope violently on her
pretty little nose. Mr.. Gatlin, with Tire
unconscious form in his arms, fed to
q hospital, where he was foolish enough
to telephone Mrs. Gatlin what had &C.
CURED. She appeared on the scene and
carried her home at once.
Mr.. Gatlin knew what she was up to.
She was going to cure Penelope'S frac-
tured nose by falkland he had no
faith in such therapy. He followed
with a doctor, demanding at the front
door to be admitted request which
was ignored. So he kicked in the panels
of the front door, which he had no
business to do because it was no longer
his, Mrs. Gatlin having acquired IL in
the property settlement. Thereupon she
summoned the police by telephone and
had him arrested, and the next morning
he was tried, found guilty and placed
under bond of $1,000 to remain away
from the place for one year.
He didn't do it, because he knew what
would happen to Penelope if he did. And
he could afford $1,ooo-$5o,o00, if need
be-to prevent thatl He attacked
within "a hours-at night, but he was
quiet about it. He remembered he had
never surrendered his latch key, so he
entered quietly and kidnapped Penelope.
Within two hours he was arrested en-
route to a San Francisco hospital in a
motor car with Penelope. For disobey-
ing tbs magistrate, he was adjudged
guilty of contempt of court, his bond
of 81 900 forfeited-and he was sentenc-
ed to 80 days in the county jail. Mrs.
Gatlin preferred charge of kidnapping
against him, which is a felony and
since Mr.. Gatlin knew he would be
tried on that charge when he emerged
1IOul jail 1LC ullDIONGO GIlE SLlulOlS IlOuIo
by swearing to a warrant charging Mrs.
Gatlin with insanity. Promptly she was
brought before board of alienists, who
declared her sane, and in order to avoid
investigation into Mr.. Gatlin's cnargc
that she was denying Penelope medical
attention, she turned her house over to
an agent and disappeared-with
Penelope.
From his cell in the county Jail, Mr..
Gatlin issued orders to his attorneys to
find Penelope and take legal steps to
prevent his eX-wife from removing her
again beyond the Jurisdiction of the
court that had granted their divorce
A diligent search of three months failed
of its object, so Mr.. Gatlin neglected to
deposit any alimony to his ex-wifes
credit. He knew she could manage very
well without the alimony. But he also
knew Louise. She would have what was
coming to her or know the reason why.
When six months had passed, Mr.
Gatlin decided he had never been ac-
quainted with her, for she failed to
make any demand upon him for her
alimony; hence he realized she preferred,
by keeping Penelope from him, to cause
him the maximum of suffering rather
than reveal her whereabouts by making
a claim for the alimony due her. A
year and a day from the date Of the
granting Of her interloctury decree. her
attorneys petitioned for the final decree,
which was granted Mr.. Gatlin there
upon discovered she was living in Paris.
This news brought him no comfort.
She was beyond reach of United States
law. However. he had detectives place
her undeTe surveillance. They reported
her as living alone, so Mr. Gatlin con-
cluded she had placed Penelope in
One day the detective agency sent
him very good snapshot of little
girl and asked him if this was the
child ne was seeking. The agency was
unable to recognize in her the original
of the photographs he had sent them.
When Mr.. Gatlin gazed upon that
photograph, he wept Mrs. Gatlin'S
faith cure, as he had suspected 1t would,
had proved wholly ineffective. In his
agony the words of the poem came back
to him:
And you, my sweet Penelope, out there
somewhere you wait for me
With buds Of roses in your hair and
kisses on your mouth.
He sold his retail shoe business and
placed all Of his assets in a trust
fund, the income to be paid to him
during his lifetime and to Penelope
after his death. He saved out of this
trust fund, however $4,000 with which
to purchase a letter of credit and
ticket to Cherbourg
In the interim Mr.. Gatlin's detec-
tives had ascertained that Penelope was
in school in Switzerland He planned
to go to that school, abduct Penelope
his plans were trifle hazy, but he in
tended TO mature them as he crossed
the Atlantic. Once in possession of
Penelope, he would see TO it that she
should never know unhappiness again,
If any effort Of his could prevent it.
He was worth half million dollars
half in cash and the remainder in real
estate that was rapidly approaching
in value. He could afford to retire.
They would go somewhere and lose
themselves.
En- route to the station--the first leg
of his journey--the automobile in
which he was riding was struck by an
other car and turned over. Mr.. Gatlln
was thrown out and suffered a basal
fracture Of the skull, from which he
died six hours later.
Stephen Burt, NJ. D., was the sort
of man whose waiting room always
would have been crowded, even If he
had not been one-quarter as capable
as his colleagues knew him to be. He
was a man of sweet simplicity, abso-
lutte honesty and overwhelming SYM
pathy; in short, he possessed the ideal
personality for a successful physician
Miss Lanning was his office nurse.
In training schools for nurseS-at least,
it was so in the hospital where Miss
tanning was trained-nurses and in
ternes develop the sort of democracy
and comradeship which delights in
nicknames-and in dispensing with for
mality Quite early in her professional
career, therefore, Miss Lanning became
known as Lanny. She was not very
good looking, capable. tremendously in
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