The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-01-03
CHAPTER 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
them7"
TELL them nothing. Let those two
cops sit In their car In front of my
house all night and watch It. What do
carer 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 not7'
''Lanny," said Dan Mcnamara, .'if
you were man and on the force I'd
make you a detective sergeant. You're
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 respectable
woman and never associate. Ii know
1t, with ladies' known to the police by
such Names
Maybe you didn't know 1t. but you
gave Sapphire Susie 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 II she was waiting
for somebody; later she got into a
coupe with a mldde-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 asstretch at San Quentin
for biackmaiI. She was discharged a
week before you visited Nance, and be-
fore Susie left the Big House, Nance
fixed 1t with her TO lend a helping
hand. Apparently Nance didn't want
to conhde the minute details of her
plan of escape to Susie. Susie's n
swell looker but little bit dumb--she
levied blackmail through the mail. un.
derstand, and signed her name, Instead
of hiring smart shyster lawyer. So
Nance decided to send her written In.
structons 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. II I'd
thought for an instant was doing any
thing Wrong-why, Nance told me to
read her letter and II dlsapproved OF
Its contents to destroy 1t. didn't see
any harm In that"
"You violated the rules of the prison
and you could be punished for 1t by
term In that same prison"
I'm, respectable woman"
THAT gets you nowhere. was 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. II my part In this
should leak out I'll be punished and
dlsgraced and thrown out OF the best
Job I've ever had. However" he
raised his glass to her-@mud In your
eye, Lanny."
Happy days. Dan, you. gorgeous
softly"
The doorheli rang. Dan opened It and
Doctor Burt stepped In He paused In
amazement at sight Of Lanny, glass ln
hand; she motioned him with It down
the hail. First door at the end,
Stevle. 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. "Bg story. First wom-
IN to escape from San Quentin" He
gazed severely upon Lanny. what
are you doing here. Lanny?"
'All hi to pay, Stevie dear. and
no pitch hot. That Belden girl Is here
with bullet hole In her shoulder; she's
suffering from shock and submerslon
and chill and loss sOf blood and she's
cold as pehgun's tall I've given her
stiff noggln OF Dams terrible booze
and a fortieth OF grain OF strychnin
and an alcohol rub She's sleeping. Did
you bring those hot-water bottes7"
Eyes, he said humby, indicating a
bag he carried. Lanny fell upon the
bag. and retired to the kitchen to nh
the hotWater bottles and tuck them In
alongside her child patient. Lucky
II she doesn't develop pneumonia,
Stevie"
Doctor Burt stood looking down at
The sleeping Nance. "Out Of the war