Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-03-28
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back door. The chief whipped out his
pistol and went unheslratingly up the
stairs. Presently he called them to
come III.
They found him standing In the door
way leading Into %I.anny's guest cham
Der. Take a look at that" he or
dered.
They looked. Lying In the bed,
sound asleep. vas Nance Beldenl
Mcnamara switched of 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 get her out Of here" Dan
Mcnamara decided. "Flynn and An
gelloti finally got on her trail, no
doubt about that-and it's a mighty
cold trail those two dicks can't follow.
| suspected this. and the note she left
at my house confirms 1t. It's just the
mercy of God that Flynn and Angelloti
didn't happen to slip Into my domIcile
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"
"Nhy, they wouldn't dare invade
their own chiefs house," Lanny pro-
tested.
"They wouldn't? You don't know
those two bozos like | do. They'd
dare anything IL 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
derhy?'
"Oh!"
wake that psychopathic nuisance
up. Lanny. and get her down here,
I've got to find out things or go crazy.
Besides, she hasn't had any dinner"
LET the poor lamb sleep, Dan,"
pleaded Lanny.
II need a lot Of sleep myself and l
can't get 1t 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 a 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
recapturing 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 tousled,
and she yawned 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. "Now,
don't get excited" she cooed. II 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 II was almost
dark we saw Flynn 90 into an alley
alongside a vacant house across the
street. We decided Angelloti had gone
home for dinner. So We t%elephoned
Angelloti's house and his wife said
that he was eating his dinner. and un-
less II was important to call up In fif-
teen minutes. So we said II wasn't i'm
portant, hung up and held a confer
nee.
1--WE decided the back of the house
wasn't guarded, so we t~elephoned 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 shinnied
0ver the back fence. Some job for two
members Of the party. I'll say. Once
over the fence we had to prowl through
the back yard of the house that abuts
against the rear of your house-and a
dog bit me, but not very hard. We
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 doused. and when we were
sure nobody was trailing us. the boys
brought me here. We jimmied your
back door. L.anny dear then the boys
said good-by to me for keeps. 1t seems
YOU don't want me a%ssociating with
them any more and they think you're
right about that. DAN"