The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-01
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lgrew older I took up dancing.
 year ago I got on vaudeville cir
 cult in the West, and my one act
 of shadow dancing, made a hit anc
 was called the Dancing Silhouette
 I was in Chicago when Jack drove
 his car into my taxi"
 T took her to the address sht
 just managed to whisper to mt
 before fainting-the Dryden Sani- tarium," he explained. When left there, I asked the doorman hel name, and, suppose in the ex- cftement he misunderstood me, and said her name was Miss Elsa Chase"
 At first it was thought I had suffered some minorsinjury to my spine, and using that and the iden- tity of the paralXtic, Miss Elsa Chase, to cloak my plans, IT." she faltered. Miss Kline, head nurse, promised to help me in my schemes and so we came to visit MT. and Mrs Winslow." She drew in her breath sharply. "Only mem cry of dads suffering kept me to my self-imposed task. Jack had given me the key to his attic room for safe-keeping, and there I found the cocaine secreted in the old consignment of wooden shoe trees" ,"
 And gave vent to your feelings by dance of triumph" Thorne smiled at her surprised exclama- tion. T saw your shadow on the curtain of the attic window"
 Did you dance on other occa- sions?" asked Inspector Mitchell.
 T did" confessed Elsa, smiling. Lucy tainted the night I threw my shadow on the front door. You were quick, MT. Thorne, but I elud- led you by slipping through the open window of the reception room and back through the front door as you raced around the house. Miss Kline revived Lucy and between us we got her up to her bedroom unseen.
 Why did you take such chances?"
 T had to timber up Sitting still all day was terrible"
 But how did you fool pr. Kane when he went to make a physical examination?"
 He never made it." Elsa laugh ed softly T put it off with a plea of faintness and fever"
 Just 8 moment The interrup- ton came from Inspector Mitchell. T have here Ferguson's sworn confession" touching his pocket. He stated that Arnold Winslow and Kane under cloak of their re- spectable professions, were in the inner circle of the Blocker ring, but Winslow, having made a fortune, was anxious to break away. Kane, ASoAiS hiOiiCy iiOdNiiy, iaN ACool tCQ to blackmailing Winslow. threaten ing to spill the beans. Kane be- lieved Winslow had a cache of dope here and Ferguson was sent down to steal it.
 Ferguson admits" continued the that he was prowling around the house looking for a chance to talk to Kane unknown to the others when he came across his dead body on the ground. He also says addressing Jack, that he went out to the canal boat and searched your belongings thinking you might have taken the cocaine with you. He thoroughly believed you murdered Kane"
 For experimental purposes I gen. erated carbon monoxide gas, using the empty fire extinguisher as a container," Jack paused again. Uncle Arnold was present."
 An, ha, and there his active brain conceived the use to which he would put the gas-deadly and ideal poison." Thorne turned to Elsa. "Winslow used you as a decoy to get Kane here, so his wife told me-
 Tt was my likeness to my fath- l CT that puzzled him." she said T something in his past life, and it worried him horribly. |
 Hence his desire to get in touch | with Kane's ex-wife, Mrs. Law renee" Thorne looked at Elsa curi- ously, You knew her at the Dry den Sanitarium?"
 Yes; at least I saw her there | once, unconscious, when they brought her in after the injury to i her head" explained Elsa.
 Elsa turned impulsively to Jack Tell us what happened Monday | night"
 Knowing that Kane peddled | dope, I was pretty sick at learning