Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
INsTALLSdENT XVIII.

wv YHEN Dan McNamara came
| VA home about midnight from
| NV the regular weekly meeting
of the Police Commission he
| found his ex-convict guest
up and waiting for him. st had two
burglars here tonight about 10 O'Clock,
Chief" he announced.
The chief sat down and loaded his
pipe. II was expecting them, my boy
| Did they ask you any queStionS?"
mo. They just searched the house
I don't think they touched anything
except the lipStick on the bureau over
| there" he said.
did they take the lipstick?" Dan
asked.
They didn't take it, they looked at
it," Mcnamara sighed. The case was
getting a little thick for him when ii
became complicated with lipsticks. He
went to the telephone and got Stephen
Burt out Of bed.
| Did a certain party while q guest
at my house ask you to bring out a lip
| stick when you called in the course OF
your professional duties, doctor?"
"Oh. yes"
Thanks, Good night" Mcnamara
hung up and went to the room lately
occupied by Nance Belden. On the
| bureau he found q lipstick. Vanity
is always the undoing of a. crook" he
sighed and went to bed, greatly troubled
in his mind at what was, TO. him, in
dubitable knowledge that Flynn and
Angelloti, even though they had failed
to find their quarry, must be convinced
beyond the shadow of doubt that he
had harbored an escaped convict in his
| home.
He passed a sleepleSs night, but he
| did some solid thinking, so there was no
| lost time. He had hoped, by providing
| this sick convict as an excuse for DR..
Burt's nightly visits, to throw Flynn
| and Angelloti off the scent-and now
the scent was hotter than ever
Now, what will they do?. They're
, morally certain she went to Lanny'S
house the NIGHT she escaped and that
Lanny got her out of there in the nick
of time and took her here. Now that
shes escaped them here they, may suS-
pect she'd doubled back to Lanny's
house. MLrderation! However, those
two dicks will never bother her without
fortifying themselves with a search
warrant. They'd be. too, afraid of me.
But with a search warrant and the
girl to show for their pains they'll have
me foul. I couldn't open my mouth
il they bring the girl into headquarters
III have to give them a cheer and con-
gratulater them"
He decided Flynn and Angelloti would
sleep on their evidence and the suSpi-
cions 1t had aroused, compare notes in
the morning and decide upon a. course
Of action. They would have to adduce
some nominal evidence to support their
suspicion before the district attorney
would consent to issue the search war
| rant, for a search warrant Is not issued
lightly. In the morning they would
induce some stool-pigeon to tell the dis
trict attorney that he had seen Nance
Belden's face at the window of Lanny's
home. Possibly they might. induce the
patrolman on that beat to stretch the
truth q little.
IT can't get Nance out of Lanny's
house tonight and can't get her out in
daylight tomorrow but must get her
out tomorrow night" he decided. But
how?"
He was at his office at next morn
ing. At $50 he looked into the detec-
tive's room and saw Flynn and Angel
lott in profound conference. Half an
hour later he stepped out of taxi two
blocks from .Lanny's house, and when
the cab had disappeared, he made his
way to the house and was admitted by
Lanny.
Nance has got to make a clean get
away" he assured her earnestly, be
cause tonight Flynn and his pal may
come with search warrant. The dis
trict attorney will probably call me up
before he issues it and I'll have to tell
him to 60 ahead and issue IT. in order