Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-02-21
IV-Continued

Those cops at your house will stick
around, Lanny, and when you return
they'll want to know where you've
been. What are you going to tell
them?"
Tell them nothing. Let those two
cops sit In their car In front Of my
house all night and watch 1t. What do
l care? At least they'll keep burglars
away. And when finally they do round
me up and waltz me down to central
station to be questioned. you'll do the
questioning, will you not?"
"Lanny." said Dan Mcnamara, "if
you were a la and on the force I'd
make you a detective sergeant. You're
q bear-cat, that's what you are. But
you struggled that letter out of San
Quentin for Nance and turned 1t over
to Sapphire Susie"
Indeed! Well, let me tell you, Dan
Mcnamara, that I'm a respectable
oma and never associate, If | know
1t, with ladies known to the police by
such Names"
Maybe you didn't know 1t, but you
gave Sapphire Susie a lift In your car
from the main gate at San Quentin
down to Greenbrae. The guard re
members seeing her hanging around
the main gate, as If she was waiting
for somebody later she got into a
coupe with a middle-aged lady, who
looked so respectable he took another
look at the pass she had just surren-
dered to him and remembers that the
name on the pass was yours. The pass
entitled you TO visit Nance Belden.
Guards may not remember such in
cidents until something happens. Then
they're fast on their feet, Lanny."
And who, If you please, is Sapphire
SUSIE"
She's did a stretch at San Quentin
for blackmail. She was discharged a
week before you visited Nance, and be-
fore Susie left the Big House, Nance
fixed it with her 10 lend a helping
hand. Apparently Nance didn't want
to confide the minute details of her
plan of escape to Susie. Susie's a
swell locker but a little bit dumb-she
levied blackmail through the mail, I'm.
derstand, and signed her name, instead
Of hiring a smart shyster lawyer. So
Nance decided to send her written In
structions out by you, and Susie agreed
to pick you up, pinch the letter and
deliver It,"
Dan, | assure you | wasn't In any
plot to effect a prison delivery. If I'd
thought for an instant l was doing any
thing ~wrong-why, Nance told me to
read her letter and If | dlsapproved of
its contents to destroy it. l didn't see
any harm In that"
and you could be punished for it by a
term In that same prison."
I'm a respectable woman"
THAT gets you nowhere. was a re-
spectacle chief Of police once-and
now look at me. II your part In this
leaks out you can only be punished
and you can't be convicted unless you
talk in your sleep. If my part In this
should leak out I'll be punished and
disgraced and thrown out Of the best
Job I've ever had. However," he
raised his glass to her-"mud In you
eye, Lanny."
Happy days, Dan, you gorgeous
softly"
The doorbell rang, Dan opened 1t and
Doctor Burt stepped in. He paused In
amazement at sight of Lanny, glass In
hand she motioned him with 1t down
the hall. First door at the end
Stevie. You'll find your patient there
"That girl with the ASSOCIATED per
sonality. Nance Belden, escaped from
San Quentin late this afternoon, Chief
Stephen began, and handed the latter
a newspaper. "Big story. First won
an to escape from San Quentin" He
gazed severely upon Lanny. "Wha'
are you doing here, LannyT
"All HI to pay, Stevie dear, ant
no pitch hot. That Belden girl is here
with a bullet hole In her shoulder she's
suffering from shock and submersioI
and chill and loss of blood and She:
cold as a %penguin's tail. I've given heI
q stiff noggin of Dams terrible booz,
and a fortieth Of a grain of strychnir
and an alcohol rub. She's sleeping. Die
you bring those hot-water oottles?"
"Yes," he said humbly, indicating
bag he carried. Lanny fell upon tn,
bag, and retired to the kitchen to fl
the hotwater bottles and tuck them II
alongside her child patient. Luck,
II she doesn't develop pneumonia
Otevie."
Doctor Burt stood looking down a
~ sleeping NANCE Out Of the war