New Britain herald., 1930-10-21
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 BY NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN

If you will" Thorne said. T know you are Elsa Gray"
 And the only child of Rev. Rich ard Gray, an Episcopal missionary she broke in.
 Tn 1914" wen On Elsa, ''my father returned from the Orient With him on the boat was Arnold Winslow, who had visited dad on several occasions when in China. Just as the boat docked in San Francisco, dad was arrested for smuggling opium; a quantity was found in his luggage; and at his -trial, which followed swiftly, cer- tain influential Chinamen testified against him and he was convicted and sentenced to twenty years ir the penitentiary.
 "The rigors of San Quentin prison soon broke down dads health. Just before he died, he told me that he was morally certain that Arnold Winslow, fearing detection, had put the opium in his luggage.
 T vowed,' she went on, Ito track down and punish Arnold Winslow. After my mothers death, father had placed me with a cousin.'
 Miss Dryden?" questioned Thorne swiftly. Owner of the san- itarium?"
 Yes >I lived with Miss Dryden ir my school vacations, and as al year ago I got on a vaudeville circuit in the West, and my one act. Of shadow dancing, made a hit and was called the Dancing Silhouette. I was in Chicago when Jack drove his car into my taxi"
 T took her to the address she just managed to whisper to me before fainting the Dryden Sani- tarium," he explained. When I left there, I asked the doorman her ctement he misunderstood me, and said her name was Miss Elsa Chase"
 At first it was thought had suf- fered some minor injury to my spine, and using that and the iden- tity of the paralytic, 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- ory 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 con- signment 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.
 q did" confessed Elsa, smiling Lucy tainted the night I threw my shadow on the front door. You were quick, MT. Thorne, but l. eluded you by slipping through the open win dow of the reception room and back through the front door as you raced around the house. Miss Kline re- vived 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 Dr. Kane when he went to make a physical examination ?" |
 He never made it." Elsa laughed softly. 'I put it off with a plea of faintness and fever"
 Just a moment" The interrup- tion came from Inspector Mitchell. '1 have here Fergusons sworn confession,' touching his pocket. He stated that Arnold Winslow and Kane, under cloak of their re- spectacle professions, were in the inner circle of the Blocker ring, but Winslow, having made a fortNne, was anxious to break away. Kane, losing money heavily, had resorted 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