The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-02-07
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CHAPTER VII

LdHntt very white anu shaken, WIS
In her living room, pistol In hand,
watching the stairs, when Mcnamara
and Stephen came noiselessy In the
back door. The chief whipped out his
pistol and went unhesltatingly up the ,
stairs. Presently he called them to
come up.
They found him standing In the door
| way leading into Lanny's guest cham
Der. Take q look at that" he or
dered.
They looked. Lying In the bed,
| sound asleep, was Nance Belden!
Mcnamara switched Off the light and
softly closed the door. With his great
head c.asped In both huge hands he
| went down the stairs to the living
room. Doc" he pleaded. 'whose
loony now? | think am because I'm
| seeing things that amt In the book
| Ochone ochone, and wirra, wirra, the
| fairies have me In tow !"
Got to ger her out OF here" Dan
| Mcnamara decided. FLYNN and An
| gelloti finally got on her trail. no
| cold trail those two dicks can't follow.
| suspected this and the note she left
at my house confirms It. It's just the
mercy OF God that Flynn and AngellotI
| didn't happen to slip Into my ldomicIle
and find the note. II they had I'd be
sunk. They can suspect all they want
to. but hanging 1t on to me is another
pair OF boots, as the French say"
why, they wouldn't dare invade
their own chiefs house, Lanny pro-
I tested.
They wouldn't? You don't know
those TWO bozos like | do. They'd
dare anything If they figured they
could get away with IT,"
Cant you give the miserable snoop-
ers an office job?" Lanny demanded.
| She was family provoked at Daniel
| for his lack of initiative.
would you herd cows with a
| couple OF horses that had won the
| derby?"
"Oh /" -
j wake that psychopathlc nuisance
| up, Lanny. and get her down here,
i I've got to find out things or 20 crazy.
Besides. she hasn't had any dinner"
Let the poor lamb sleep. Dam"
| pleaded Lanny.
II need a lot OF sleep myself and |
! can't get Ii until | know how, when
and where Nance and her gang made
| the getaway. Suppose Flynn and An
gelloti let them make the getaway;
suppose Flynn followed the men and
AngellotI followed Nance? They'd do
that, they wouldn't risk getting In
Dutch with me by making the pinch
as the gang came out OF my house.
They have some loyalty and lot of
common sense, and they know which
| side their bread Is buttered on. When
they take the girl they'll not turn her
In to me. They'll waltz her straight
back to San Quentin to the warden
and let his men get the credit for
recaptnrlng her. All they want Is
the reward. Suppose they know she's
here now and suppose they've seen me
come here? Ouch! Murderation. |"
"Have her down, Lanny.' Stephen
commanded In his operating room voice,
and Lanny had no alternative save to
obey. So presently Nance came down
the stairs with her. The girl was
arrayed In an old faded dressing
| gown of Lanny's. her hair was tonsled,
and She yawne1 sleepily.
Hello, Stevie. old darling hello.
Dan. you great big beautiful thing.
Here am"
"Sit down." Mcnamara invited In
honeyed accents.
So Nance sat down promptly-on his
tremendous knees-put her arm around
his burly neck and kissed him. Nov.
don't ret excited" she cooed. Il know
exactly what's burning you up, but you
needn't worry. One OF the boys recog-
nized Flynn and recognized Angelloti,
because he's the dick that pinched me
the first time | got In Dutch. They
kept circling the block In their car all
the afternoon, and when 1t was almost
dark we saw Flynn 80 Into an alley
alongside vacant house across the
cNtICt- we lttldEu 1HSLifolf iltto EohC
I home for dinner. So we telephoned
Angelloti's house and his wife said
thnt he was eating his dinner, and un-
less 1t wns important to call up In fl
teen minutes So we said Il wasn't I'M
portant, hung up and held a confer
ence
I'VE decided the back OF the house
wasn't guarded. 80 we telephoned the
boy friend that met us at the yacht
harbor that night, and he came and
parked In the next street We went out
your back door leaving the light In
the front room burning and shinnled
over the back fence. Some Job for two
members OF the party, I'll say. Onca
over the fence we had to prowl through
the back yard Of the house that Adults
against the rear OF your house-and
dog bit me. but not very hard. We
1 got out In front and into the next
street before anybody could come out
and see what luck the dog had had:
our car was there and we beat IT. We're
pretty sure nobody followed us, but
we drove out to the park first with
| our lights dOugpd md when we were