New Britain herald., 1930-10-16
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| EynOpslS. suspected ol HuTuel = ing Dr. Paul Kane, who died of car bon monoxide gas poisoning, Jack Winslow. adopted son Of Arnold Winslow, has disappeared. He is in love with Elsa Chase. beautiful crip- pied girl, who the elder Winslow suspects is really an adventures. He has hired G. Thorne, detective, to probe her past, but Thorne now is engaged in tracking down Kane's murderer. The mysterious shadow of a human being, madly dancing. has been seen twice, at night, but it's source remains undiscovered. Mrs. Lawrence, a mysterious un- derworld character, dies Of heart failure, while Ferguson, Winslow's s gardener, is trying to discover her arriving by accident soon after her death, finds in a table drawer part of a billhead listing charges for care at Chicago sanitarium, and there is a newspaper clipping with the words, The Dancing
 
 had another visitor before Fergu- son arrived, and Thorne suspects it was a woman. With Inspector Mitchell of the police, Thorne leaves the house where Mrs. Law renee died.
 Chapter A
 LAMBERTS LUCK TURNS
 Where to-" asked Inspector Mitchell as he let in the clutch.
 Do you mind returning toward Oaklands?" Thorne asked. My car is parked halfway there"
 For answer Mitchell turned the corner and drove in the direction of the highway. T reached the Winslows' soon after you left" he said. Tt took the locksmith a good twenty minutes to get the door of that attic room open; he said the lock was damned, as if some one had tried to open it and had failed"
 "Humph."
 T thought so. too,' agreed Mitchell dryly. And I humph-ed a. whole lot more when I got inside the room. Man, there wasn't a damned thing in it."
 Thorne stared at Mitchell unba- Eevingly. You mean you could find no clews?"
 NO clews and nothing else, either" retorted the inspector. Jack Winslow's so-called workshop hadn't a stick of furniture in it, not even a chair. Old Man Winslow Was bowled over when he saw the place - I thought he'd Jie on our hands from shock. His eyes bulged out of his head and his face actually grew purple"
 Did he have a stroke?"
 No. As soon as he got some whiskey aboard he was all right. Lambert also declared that Jack s workshop was fitted up as labora- tory. for experimental work. It's damn fishy, to my way Of thinking, Thorne."
 Tt is," agreed Thorne, thought fully. "Why put lock on the door of an empty room?'
 And some one damned the lock, trying to get the door open" sup plemented Mitchell. Hanged if understand it. Say, what took you to that boarding house tonight"
 T went there to find some clew to Jack Winslow's present where abouts,' Thorne explained. And I was just leaving when Mrs. Sims young daughter found Mrs. Law renee dead upstairs"
 "Oh, ho! So Master Jack knew Mrs. Lawrence?" q
 "Perhaps." shortly; by half truth he had diverted further questioning to other channels. Have you had any news of him?" ~ Mitchell smiled wryly. No" he admitted. But, .! If he's still alive. he's got to be in contact with some one. some time-he's got to get food to live"
 s"And money to live on," added Thorne. From testimony at the inquest, he was badly strapped for funds. It makes me think, Inspec- tor" speaking more slowly. that Jack isn't so far from home"
 Mitchell nodded grimly He's in cahoots with some one, that's cer- tain. I'm having Lambert shad- owed"
 Why Lambert particularly ?" quickly.
 His manner this evening when we found Jacks workshop empty was so uneasy that it aroused my suspicious" explained the inspector And l believe he must have had d hand in removing the furni-
 "Without the knowledge of the other inmates of the house? Oh, come, Mitchell"
 G"Easy as pie, with the elevator, retorted the older man. Run the elevator to the attic, fill it up. take tito the basement and choose z time when every one is out of the house-who could be the wiser?"
 ''Is the furniture and chemica apparatus in the basement?"
 ''No," acknowledged Mitchell. "I' could have been taken away iron there in the same stealthy manner I find that it's been Mir and Mrs Winslow's custom to spenl a great deal of time in town.'