New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1930, Page 16

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1930. posscosmstmss——————— ? THE R —— 1 T A RO TS Synopsis: Circumstantial evidence | ‘bfought out at the coroner’s inquest | ~leads to the theory that Jack Wins- * 1ow, adopted son of Arnold Winslow, . murdered Dr. Paul Kane, who was .poisoned by carbon monoxide gas. * Jack loves Elsa Chase, beautiful crippled girl, whom Dr. Kane was to have examined. The elder Win: low, believing her an adventuress, | had engaged G. Thorne, detective. to probe her past. Jack disappears after severely choking his father in rage at the latter's disparaging re- marks about Elsa. Lucy, the house- maid, out to mail a letter late one night, is terrified to see a human figure, madly dancing, silhouetted | against a window curtain. A few rights later, coming downstairs tol mail another letter, she sees the| dancing silhouette again, this time | | on the inside of the front door. Thorne, hiding there, sees it too. Taey faints and Thorne pursues the shadow, but it vanishes and when te returns Lucy’'s unconsc’ous form also has disappeared. Then he meets Mrs. Winslow coming down- stairs “to get a book” and she shows him that Lucy is safely back i bed, apparently with no memory of her experience. Chapter 18 THEORIES The city was astir when Thorne finally drove up to his office build-| ing in Connecticut avenue and en- tered it, to find Imspector Mitchell | pacing impatiently up and down the cerridor before the closed doors of the Universal Detective Agency. “Where do you stand on this| Kane-Winslow affair, Thorne?” he asked. ‘“Are you with us or are you playing a lone hand?” Thorne eved the inspector care- fully. “Up a tree?"” and as Mitchell | fiushed, he added: “Come, if we | are to be allies, let's have frank- niess.” “You inspector. are right.” admitted the | ““To tell the truth, ‘Thorne, T can't afford to pull a hone. To arrest young Winslow without sufficient evidence to hold him, well, old Winslow has a lot of | fnfluence politically, and my goose would te cooked. He's employed | vou, hasn't he, to look after young | Jack's futerests?” “If you put it that way, he has—" “And not to find out who mur-| dered Kane?” | “He doesn't believe the two are synonymous.” Thorne met Mitch- ell's suspicious glance with un- moved countenance. “I feel at lib erty to investigate Kane's murder. “Good!” Mitchell hitched his| chair closer. “I'm coming to you on my own responsibility, Thorn understand that: the department | has nothing to do with it.”" Thorne nodded. “You've been to me before—on the same terms.” “Sure; you play straight, and damn it, you've got brains! Thorne chuckled. “What do you ! want, Inspector?” he asked. “But| wait.” He rummaged about in his drawer and took out a bottle of per- | fume. “Smell that,” he thrust it in| Mitchell's hand, then drew out the| handkerchief he had found in the | musle room at Oaklands after h interview with Elsa Chase. Un-| folding it, he disclosed a theater ticket. “Now, smell the perfume on this handkerchief.” Mitchell sniffed at the handker- chief and again at the bottle. i “The same scent” he declarcd, then glanced at the label on the bottle: “Humph, Heavenscent—ap- propriate name.” He looked up | sharply. “What has the perfume | to do with the case in point?” Thorne tossed the ticket into | Mitchell’s lap. | “Good for one performance at| Keith’s Theater yesterday,” he| commented. “Find out it you can, | Inspector, who purchased that tick- et, there is a bare possibility the ticket seller may know, and then | Tl answer your first question | “The officials of the Inhor;\mr}} «stand by their tests” Mitchell stated. | ey declare Kane came to his| ceath through inhaling carbon | monoxide gas. I've made a care- | ful examination of Oaklands and Mrs. Winslow is right: there is no way the gas could have been intro- | duced into the bathroom through | the usual causes—from the exhaust | of an automobile -engine, a gas| range, a gas water heater. gas logs and other gas heaters. That posi- tively puts the crime on a person of persons with the chemica! knowledge to generate the gas and | wvith sufficient diabolical ingenuity, to introduce it undetected into the | lacked bathroom.” Thorne took out his pipe and to- bacco. | "Your reasoning is entirely logi cal, Inspector,” he admitted. “So | legical, that T am doubtful” hi voice trailed off into silence for nioment. “Have vou located Jack?' “Not vet,” glumly. *“A descrip- tion has been sent broadcast through the regular channels throughout the country.” | could find out | bill folder before?"” | the leather bill folder. | separating | Lane's o ETALIE SUMNER LINCOLN out a|Leing wheeled into the garden, hav- |ing first ascertained that Mrs. Wins- “Did you run across Dr. Kane low had motored to Washington and while you were in Boston?" |that Mr. Winslow was keeping to Again Thorne shook his head. |Lis room. “Never even heard of him. Have| “If you do this, Miss E you_made any inquiries about Kane, | testeM the trained nurse, Inspector 2" ay that you are not well enough to ure. Kane was a divorce; they | have Winner = with Mrs. Winslow don't know what became of his | tenight. ) vife, her name was Sara Holcombe. | Elsa turned her head o children, apparently.” He on <che pillow. “Mrs. Winslow is stopped and cleared his throat. |trying,” she admitted. “But, Alice, “While XKane has always been |znything is better than a dead calm. looked upon as a first-class ortho- | And my nerves won't stand much pedic surgeon. his practice of late | more. Oh!” striking the arm of her vears has fallen off, for no appar- | chair a resounding blow, “why reasons that the Boston police | doesn’t Jack send me some word! It isn’t fair, it isn't just, to Kkeep ense! Miss Kline laid a sooth- on her shoulder. “You cannot afford to lose your self-con- trol.” She looked carefully about to see ‘hat no one was within ear . Jack may have tried to ate with you, but Lam- Inspector Mitchell drew bill folder and bent closer. restlessly ent “That's interesting,” commented Thorne quickly 1'd follow it up, Inspector.” Mitchell nodded. “They he'd been short of funds with creditors pressing him money; his bank admitted made unfortu “More and more interestin, claimed Thorne. “Inspector, on the right track.” Mitchell Jooked gratified. vou think so,” he said. “Now n here, Thorne, you've seen this added lately for he'd ' ex- you're | “Well, what about Lambert?" “Lambert wants more money." “Oh. So Lambert doesn't stay bought 2" The trained nurse compressed her lips. “It’s safe to have him in vour pay, Miss Elsa, for Mr. Jack's “Stop here," help me, Alice. ad Thorne looked more closely at the chest of | bedroom the “It was drawers in Kane's morning after his murder.” He stopped speaking Mitchell lying on she directed, “and ' As the nurse bent over to adjust the rug across her lap, Elsa opened her fur coat and opened the bill folder and spread | drawing out a long gold chain hang- its contents on the desk; all w ing about her neck, exposed to view there as Thorne remembered them |a mesh purse. From its slender —the three matches, visiting cards, | store she counted out four twenty- driver's permit and registration | dollar gold“picces. ‘Use these ju- card for Kane's automobile, and | diciously, Alice, I'll wait here.” five hundred dollars in bills of | Lying back on her pillows, Elsa varying denominations. watched the nurse cross the lawn wasn't killed with robbery | and head for the back of the house. as the motive,” remarked Mitchell, | She was a big woman, but in spite the money. “See here,” of her height she was exceedingly and he produced a small, soiled | quick in all her movements. This piece of paper, stuck between {wo time, however, Miss Kline walked ten-dollar biils. “Read that memo- |with slow and plodding step and randum.” there was a noticeable stoop to her Hastily Thorne scanned the pen- | shoulders. a swung the chair to cll lines: *J. W. paid $1,000; still |the right, and continued wheeling due $9,000; int. 7 per cent. along, careless of the route she “It was written by Kane,” he an- | took, her only desire to get away nounced quickly; “Boston senl down specimens of his handwrit- ing.” “Interesting, very. make of it, Inspecto “A clinching piece of evidence, Thorne, and against young Jack.”| Tnspector Mitchell spoke with in- creasing rapidity as his excite- ment mounted. “Figure it out for | vourself, man; here's Jack, who | probably borrowed heavily at ono | time or another from Kane while | h: was in college. Kane doesn’t need the money until his invest- ments go fluey; then he tried to collect; got a thousand out of him and came down to get the re ‘But any debt contracted while | Jack was at Harvard would be out- | ed by this time” objected Thorne. Mitchell thrust out hisijaw obsti- | nately. “Possibly he knew some- thing discreditable to Jack —some college scrape,” he pointed out. “Wcll, admitting that, what then?” “We know Jack had no money, for he was overdrawn at his bank: he may have been even deeper in cebt,” he pointed out; “perhaps he | vas desperate and, resorting to desperate remedics, plotied to kil! | Kane with the use of this zas which, as you know, is prac- |the left corner. tically odorless and leaves “I am sorry, Mrs. Lawrence,” be- trace. If it hadn't been for Dr. Me- | gan Elsa, “but your name conveys cleverness in noting the | nothing to me. . . .” cendition of the body, the crims| “Then why have you avoided would never have been detected, | meeting me?” broke in the other. for if the body had once been em-|“What are you afraid of, if you balmed mno trace of the poison |don't know me?” and her eyes would have been found.” | bored into Elsa. “Your theory presupposes | Elsa shrugged her shoulders. thing” Thorne argued slowly: | “You are pleased td be mysterious.” “that Jack had previous knowledge | she retorted. “I was never good ot Kane's visit.” {ac conundrums. Why not,” rais- “But did know ii," trium- | ing clear eyes to the ones scowl- phantly, mbert told me he took |ing down at her, “speak in plain the teleeram announcing Kane's | United State: arrival over the telephone two| Mrs. Lawrence indulged in a oays befora.” | sneering “Ha!" Then with a leer: In silence Thorne sat back in his| “Where's your visiting card, Miss chair and contemplated Mitchell: | E1ea Chase?” he wanted time to think. Taking| I have none with me,” Elsa re up his neglected pipe, he drew out | plied patiently. “If you have any- a bdx of matches and struck one: | thing to say to me, please say it; it went out promptly and as he | g growing colder and T cannot re- again held the match box up t0|main here much longer.” strike znot%er, he noticed the vrd‘ “And you don't want to tips with blue tops on the matches: | me into the house,” swiftly swiftly ‘his traveled to the|cyppose 1 make a date with Mr. three matches lying in Kane's bill | he” with peculiar em- folder—they were identical in size, | . “wants to see me.” with the same red tip and blue top see him and as these in the match box which retorted . losing Flsa Chase had cut of her ankly, Mrs. Law- bag and given him the night befors. | rence, I am tired of innuendoes. Chapter 19 You have uttered veiled threats on MONEY TALKS the two occasions I have seen you: The weather had moderated now; what is it?” after watching the mellow sunshine | wyoy wadt a showdown?" The from the windows of her bedroom | woman's blue-green eyes gleamed { throughout the morning hours, Els TalT M She movedifore ardbsolihit | Ct could stand it indoors Ilsa could look dir ctly at her with- | longer, and. regardless of ~Miss | oyt having to turn her head and | Kline's remonstrances, insisted upon | took off , her felt hat; then, with a movement both swift and as most as abruptly as she had started as the chair brought up against the gate leading from the foot path to the broad highway. Suddenly a voice almost in her ear caused her to start violently, and the color drained from her cheeks at sight of a blond woman in blue standing just inside the gate. The newcomer watched her a cynical smile. “Well, well, here we are again!” the newcomer exclaimed. “And| that rurse of yours said you were | too ill to come out of doors.” Elsa summoned a strained smile it was the best she could muster. “It is nice of you to be so solici- teus about my health,” she saig softly; “you, a total stranger.” The woman eyed her curiously, then from her bag took out a not overclean visiting card. “Since you insist on formalit The sncer was apparent. “Here you |are. Can you reciprocate?” Without answering, sa glanced ar the card thrust almost under her nose —Mrs. Ben® Lawrence, so ran the engraved script —but the card was withdrawn and replaced in the woman's hand bag before she could deadlv | decipher the scrawled address in ‘What do you | with one “Well ey gratify his curiosity,” all patienc tak anl | sc no AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN “I like a woman that ain't scared to talk about any- thing, but I don’t like one that can’t talk about, nothin’ else.” Copyright, 123 hers Syndicate —_—_—— stealthily, she lifted her blond wig. disclosing her cropped gray and a hideous scar which crossed the top of her forechead where the hair would naturally have grown. POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN from her thoughts. She stopped al- | invite locks sa shrank back against her pil- lows as a vision rose before her of a prone figure on a bed in a small white-washed room; a room &pot- lessly clean, yet Wwith menacing lars in the one window; a face on the pillow awathed in bandages and the h'deous scar a disfiguring blot in contrast to the white linen. Mrs. Lawrence's voice in her ear sounded far off; only gradually did she sense what the woman was saying. g “Come across, sister,” and Mrs. Lawrence stood looking down, at Elsa, her felt hat and wig once more in place. “It's easier to pay the price than doin’ a term in the pen,” she muttered coarsely. Elsa fumbled in the mesh bag ch she had dropped in the inside pocket of her fur coat instead of returning it to its usual place, and drew out fifty dollars in gold. “You will have to be satisfied with that,” she exclaimed, catching Mrs. Lawrence’'s mutinous glance, “For now.” The woman pock- eted the money. “Shall I come out _for more tomorrow?” “or, perhaps,—tonight, men-folks are home?” From her bag, which hung con- venicntly on the arm of her chair, Elsa took a pad and the stub of a pencil. “Your address?” she asked brief- ly. and the woman, glancing at her uneasily, saw that she had gone too far. “What do you want it for?" sus- picion overcoming her cupidity. “So that I can communicate with vou through others,” swiftly, regain- ing her composure. “Stop,” observ- ing the protest trembling on Mr: Lawrence's lips. “H you want money, it will have to be given to you in my way, or—well, you know the penalty for blackmail." The woman's color changed. “I'm stopping at 1819 35th street,” she volunteered, and ould have added more but the gate be- hind them clicked as it swung back into place and Ferguson shambled up to them. “Is this ’ere woman a-botherin’ of ve?” he questioned, touching his finger to his cap visor, and with an appraising glance at Mrs. Lawrence, “Mr. Winslow don't permit no tres- passin’, ma'am.” 1 pressed the blunted stub of her pencil wrote down haste. Thank come! The effect of the gardener’s pres- ence on Mrs. Lawrence marked; instantly she was all suav- ity. “Just stopped for a friendly word,” she announced glibly, “see- | ing this young lady through the gar- | den gate, sitting here so lonclv.[ “Well, I must be off,” and She wav- | ed her hand coquettishly at Elsa as she sidled thorugh the gate which the scowling Ferguson held open for her. (Copyright, D. Appleton#& Co.) Thorne di an important clue and also a new mystery in temorrow’s chapter. 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