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e NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1930. Synopsis: Suspected of murder- ing Dr, Paul Kane, who dicd of car- bon monoxide gas poisoning, Jack Winslow, adopted son of Arnold Winslow, has ppeared. He is in love with Elsa Chase, beautiful crip- pléd girl, who the elder Winslow suspects is really an adventuress He has hired G. Thorne, detective, to probe her past, but Thorne now is_engaged in tracking down Kane's murderer. The mysterions shadow of-a human being, madly dancing, Tas been seen twice, at nig its source remains Mrs, Lawrence, a @erworld character, failure, while gerdener, is trying t secret influence over E Bffiving by accid her death, finds in part of a billhead 1 for care at a and there is with the word Sithouette.” had another vi ore Fergu- | son arrived, and Thorne suspects | it was a woman. Witl Mitchell of the leaves the house Tence died. Chapter 24 LAMBERT'S LUCK TURNS “Where to?" asked I Mitchell as he let in the cl “Do you mind returni Oaklands?” Thorne aske is parked halfway there For answer Mitchell turned the corner and drove in the direction of the highway. reached t} Winslows' soon after you le §di4. “It took the locksmith a good twenty minutes to g e door of that attic room open said the lock was jammed, as had tried to open “Humph!"” “I thought Mitchell dryly. 2. whole lot more ¥ the room. M damned thing i Thorne stars Kevingly. “You find no clews?” “No clews and noth either,”” retorted the *Jack Winslow's so-called thadn’'t a stick ure not even a ch was bowled over w place — I thought he'd J bands from shock. His ey out of his head and his fac grew purple.” “Did he have a strok “No. As so0n as whiskey aboard he Lambert also dec workshop was fitted v rolice, Thorne | where Mrs. Law- | toward My car 0. he got | lieves some | @ o BY NATA Miss Elsa Chase, recollect, an invalid."” for that reason not able to t is going on,” triumph- Che cook's more or less of Peter, the chauffeur, ditto. about the three others:— the maid; the nur: and Sam Ferguson “Have you fool; “How Lucy, a asked questioned first two.” Mitchell's that Luc; ia vi vaguely. “She about rome across th is cookoo; she be- ons and all that,” talked to Jackson shadow chasing her lawn some nig s is that your %ar? made a4 bend in the road and his powerful lights fell on an automo- bile parked a culvert. On rne’s quicl mative, he drew the road. “If you how are you going nds 2" are out of to get to Oakl bringin nd time waiting, I'll run Inspector | ¥ As they turned low estate, Thorne detach himself from shadows of the tall a man " explained Mitchell, as litted his hand on tor's car. horne, but the Winslow under police survetl- slowed down as Jack- o them. Mrs, Winslow motored 1 just after you left, In- e reported. * er of urned Mitchell glanced o about it, come Thorne? Want back tomorrow | and Mitchell con- drive to the man- gine running,” | moment later e to a stop before the “it'll drown our talk. his voice was you gone throu gar % e gardener's coitage, with a view to Jack's being concealed ia the rst thing, and so thor- t I know Jack Winslow operatives did you have inds while you, Jack- mith were in the ed. they were Good. toolk me have those papers the drawer in front hey haven't | at his compan- | just audi- | T Thorze rose from his crouching po- sition and launched himself into teen feet from the house grew ant elm, 1ts great branches vis against the sky line, ond it was of them that Thorne cnught on his leap from the window ledge. | Fulling himself astride the branck, he climbed toward the trunk of the tree, then, hand over hand swarrme | nold Winslow and his wife stalked |up it and out along a branch above | inside, aroused the butler from his |the ledge of the dormer window. | stupefaction. { The branch | “And to think we've been waiting | five feet or more higher. at your office for an hour or two,” | directly over the dormer window |and to jump from it to the narrow exclaimed Wihslow. | Mrs. Winslow retired at once, and |lcdge was a feat at which many Thorne then informed Winslow of | would shy even in broad daylight. | Mrs. Lawrence's death. At his em-| I s he hesitated a light | pioyer's suggestion, the detective |flashed on 1n the room with the | telephoned a notice to the Washing- | dormer window. ton morning papers offering $10,000 | hold could enter the workshop when reward for information regarding | Inspector Mitchell, according to Jac! reabouts. They talked | Lambert, had the only key which long after midnight, and Winslow |fitted the lock? According to | offered Thorne the use of his guest ‘ Lambert, ah, but Lambert had lied, rcom for the remainder of theor else the original key to the door night. | was the “That's very good of you. Teli What more likely even, than that me, Mr. Winslow, what about Jack’s | the intruder was Jack Winslow? workroom in your attic?"” Knowing that the door of the | “I'm dashed if I unde workshop could not be opened with- he exclaimed. “There out using forse or spending valua- left in the room.” able time picking the lock while v I see the room?" running the risk of scovery | “What, now?” somewhat startled | Thore had chosen the more ven- | at the idea. “Sure, come along turesome way of gaining admittance The attic was dark and Win a the dormer window. spent some seconds fumbling for| Intuitively he had realized that the electric switch near the ele- |something of more importance than vator. It controlled a number of {four bare walls lay within the lights along the attic and the two |locked door. men proceeded at once to the door| And now ai the further end. Thorne, reach- |there first! ing there first, turned the door | Suddenly | knob. To his surprise it resisted | his efforts and he looked at Wins- | 3 | Gradually LIE SUMNER LINCOLN and it!” n't a thing another had gotten the light in the room as obscured as a huge shadow on the lowered shade blotted it out the shadow grew less, | “The door's locked,” he shid. | Winslow stared first at him and | then at the door, then, raising a trembling finger, he announced in a aneer voice: “The key was left in the lock when the locksmith and I went a damn me, it was Thorne shook the door, then used | his strength to turn the knob; boti efforts were useless, | Back in the den, they were met { by Lambert. You were there, Lambert” ex- claimed Winslow Wasn't, the key left in the lock of the door to Mr. k's workshop tonight?” The butler shook his head. “No, sir” he said respectfully. “Inspec- tor Mitchell took it.” | In his bedroom, Thorne closed | |and locked the door, pocketing the | ley. Taking from his pocket a | small block of wood he whittled lli |down, shaping it deftly, so that it fitted tightly in the keyhole, leav- ing no crack through which prying might sce. i i & om his coat pocket he took a | Errrmmp Y | pair of creepers and, removing his | [§ lt Contro]s shoes, slipped them on; then stand- | e " [ing up he took off his white shirt. | SN TN TRy Underneath it he wore a close fit- ! ting black silk jersey, while | strapped under that was a narrow, ing eves, a whirling, dancing figure was outlined against the cream-col- ored window shade. Swaying this and that, in perfect rhythm, e figure danced with a grace and abandon that took no note of time “I 2m a saleslady in a store. My he bestrode, while | was not. | Who in the house- | one used by the intruder. | ' spread iton took form, and before Thorne's starj/ m i i {or place. | It seemed to the breathless | Thorne that he had never seen more joyous dancing —the whirling fig- ure appeared the personification of a great and overwhelming happi- ness. As to its sex, he was in doubt whether man or maid danced and | swayed back and forth and around | the room. The shadowy face, shield- ed by the waving arms, was blurred, indistinct—the features fm- possible of recognition. (Copyright, D. Appleton & Co.) Pursuing the dancing shadow, Thorne encounters a flesh-and blood prowler in the darkness in | tomorrow’s chapter. NURSES GRATEFUL T0 LOCAL POLIGE Write to Chiel Hart Thanking Him for Courtesy Police Chief William C. Hart is in receipt of a letter written by Miss Margaret K. Stack, executive secre- tary ot the state organization of registered nurses, and expressing | appreciation for the consideration | Illinois Seeks to Fix extended them by the members of | |the local police departrent during Fair Prices for Food 5 7 o | their stay in this city. Chicago, Oct. 16 (P --Formation| “ripg jetteriis as follows: of a bureau to secure falr priges on | «william C. Hart, food was among plans outlined to- | “Chief ot Police, |day by Dr. Benjamin M. Squires, | “New Britain, Conn. state labor adviser, In connection | "My dear Mr. Hart:— vt i “Over five humdred nurses and | with Illinois’ efforts to relieve its | gyqqtg Jistened contentedly and with | vnemployment situation. | much interest to your mayor, George | Dr. Squires is chairman pro-tem | A. Quigley, to Dr. Reeks and to| lof a committee of industrlalists, | many other splendid speakers at our | bankers, labor leaders, welfare |Mecting in New Britaln, October 3, | workers and others appointed by |1930. | | Governor Louis L. Emerson to work | “The contentedness was' due to| fon the unemployment program. | the fact that no one was disturbed | The committee’s first meeting will | by the thought that she might find | be held next Monday. {a tag on her automobile when she | was ready to start for home. “We wish you to know Mr. Hart, | |tion very much and I venture tc I say that as we meet in other citic at various times we will find our selves wishing that the same privi leges might be extended to us. “Very truly yours, “MARGARET K. STACK, “Executive Secretary.” Automobile Runs Wild And Dashes Into Fence Thirty feet of fence, located on the property of the Polish Baking company on Broad street, was GULDENS . 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Then tory, for experimental work. damn fishy, to my way of Thorne.” |te “It is* agreed Thorne, thought- fully. “Why put a lock on the door of an empty room? “And some one jammed the trying to get the door op plemented Mitchell, “Hanged if I understand it. took you to that boarding house tonigh “I went there to find sor to Jack Winslow's present abouts,” Thorne explained I was just leaving when Mr young daughter found N rbnce dead upstairs.” ““Oh, ho! So Master Jack knew Mrs. Lawrence?” @ +Perhaps,” :hortly; by tiuth he had diverted questioning to other ¢l “Have you had any news of h Mitchell smiled wryly. “No,” he ddmitted. “But, If he's| still alive, he’s got to be in contact| The butler's with some one, some time—he's got [ “Yes, sir.” | “Almost as dangerous as—double to live on,” added | crossing the police.” Lambert stood Phorne. “From testimony at the|like a graven image, but his cheeks inquest, he was badly strapped for | had grown an unhealthy color. funds. It makes me think, Inspec-| “Who is your employer, Lambert?" tor,” speaking more slowly, “that| “Mr. Winslow, sir.” Jack fsn't so far from hom “And who pays you the most— Mitchell nodded grimly. “He's in |Mr. Jack Winslow cahoots with some one, that's cer- | nbert moistened his dry lips. | tain. I'm having Lambert shad- hasn't any money, sir."” owed.” | True. Only the hope of a large | “Why Lambert particularly?” | itance,” swiftly. *“And people | quickly. t live on hope in this world. | “His manner this evening when out of luck, Lambert,” and | we found Jack's workshop empty langhed aloud. was =0 unea For the re time »d his position, hand moved nervously over furni- is thigh in an ever widening cir- | cular motion. Thorne's lips parted he | slig] 1d his eyes brightened, his ; taunted beyond GERTRUDE'S ¢ ! c { CULTURAL ACADEMY el i, “Tho CADS LOOK LIKE A LOTTA PIKERS o awrence; I'll return them orro Lambert answered the door bell b such that Thorne | cluded he away. 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MILLS Plumbing — Heating — Sheet Metal Work 66 WEST MAIN STREET Phones 5100 - 5101 Household 496 Main Street Electric Store By CLIFF STERRET uch and proceeded to fill it | all the while keeping a | hfui eye on the butler standing | igidly before him. ambert,” he tossed the match into a brass tray on a tabls near by. ing the stock market is a dan- gerous game.” GLASSES 67 CREDIT, FINEST QUALITY = 8 Lenses and, a half im?' eyelids quivered. money GREATER SENSITIVITY KEENER SELECTIVITY FULLER, RICHER TONB FREEDOM FROM HUM 9 TUBES 4 SCRE GRIDS GENERALEELECTRIC FULL RANGE RADIO POLLY AND HER PALS ALBREN, Inc _ 282 MAIN STREET can You | he Putting a Flea in Carrie’s Ear the butler while his HEH, HEH. T HEAR THAT THE YOUNG LADIES OF THE 5.5. CONSIDER THE C.A. CROWD A PACK OF FPARASITES! K BELEVE ME, & CARRIE, THEM SNOBRY SCHoOLY hand the ture. . “Without the pther inmates come, Mitchell!” retorted the olc @levator to the attic it-to the basem time when cvery hotse— could be “Is the apparatus in knowledge of of house? elevator. n. “Run 11 it up. *s d choose a t of the | wer the shop you helped support after- 1o rocks late this Fede hority s eyes a whirl was outlined on Before Thorne's s ing, dancing figure ainst the shad « COV}y wiser?” | emical I OF DARKNESS 1 his The | Ar- | UNDER Winglow's cu deal of time door, as POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN AUNT HET BY ROBLERT QUILLEN JUST KIDS THERE'S iy Q(»«\s v "TENDERLY PRESSED- CLOSE” To YoUR BREAST —K\SS ME KISS ME - AGAIN " ON ACRUNT oF Yold \ oL ARE VERY DEAR SEIN' ENGAGED-ME AN FATSO WISHES You HAPPINESS FER EVER AN EVER PERSONALLY | WISHT SAED GIT ENGAGED GITTIN' MY DMOUTH READY To SAY THEM VERY “Amy thinks that husband o’ hers brought | the flowers because his con- science was hurtin somethin’ but my he thought the shc kill her. 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