New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1930, Page 30

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1930. -Dancinig = b s Synopsis: When Dr. Paul Kane, surgeon, is murdered by carbon monoxide gas poisoning, Jack Win- Ao, “a. #low, adopted son of Arnold Win- | slow, is suspected as the murderer i~«and disappears. Elsa Chase, beauti- """ tul crippled girl, whom Jack loves, is - __guspected of being an adventuress by the elder Winslow. He brought __Kane to examine her real condition " and hired G. Thorne, detective, to ..probe her past, but Thorne is now working on Kane's nitirder. Mrs. TLawrence, a mysterious woman, di suddenly withbut revealing the sc cret hold which she has over Elsa “-sChase. Thorne finds in her room " part of a bill from a Chicago sani- tarium for care, and a clipping with = +the words, “The Dancing Silhouette.” A mysterious shadow of a human being, madly dancing, has been secn twice at the Winslow mansion, but S its source is still “Thorne, late one night. climbs a tre: __beside the house, undiscovered hoping to enter, | »¢ through a window, an attic room of | ‘which the door is locked, and where | he hopes to find some clue to the murder mystery. As he prepares to | awing from the tree to the third floor window sill, a light flashes on in the room dancing shadow again houetted against the drawn window shade. Chapter 26 IN PURSUIT OF A SHADOW With his blood on fire, Thorne lowered himself until he hung from the branch by hys hands. Swinging __back and forth he gathered momen- #s tum and releasing his grip shot . downward toward the dormer win- . dow. In his descent his groping, grasp- ing fingers tore at the wall, then ut {,.the stone ledge — slipped — and . -grasped the copper gutter. With his “-.Reart racing against his ribs he * hung suspended, too weak to pull < “Rimself upward. Getting his second and the mysterious | appears sil- | | Releasing his grip, Thorne shot dt dormet ! was used 1 general dump for dis- carded articles, for in one corner Thorne saw a dozen or more wooden | shoe trees and picked one up. The rust on the steel joint betokened ge, as did the black smut on th wooden arch, and he tossed it back in the box. Going over {o switched off the bolt noiselessly back, then softly, very softly, turned the short knob of the lock and drew open the door. inch by inch. Peering into the im- penetrable black of the attic, he waited, but no sound disturbed the door, he and shot the the light msmmsnssrmirn gestion of ber “And he gave ph room, “Did you put out the lights in the la in A - BY NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN wnward from the tree toward the window st. ““Twas in ct's room it to you fell and her Her nervously eves 1cked at When was that Just now,"” admitted. wrd Lambert creep oh, a long time she 152" ‘N-n-no her wiftly. ' she protested, TLam- she shawl. “Lambert wasn’t there when I took the envelope from under his pillow.” out of the drawing ath with a sucking noise. T ed. “Say nothing of what has hap- pened. If you do,” again he ap- proached her and she shrank away, ‘'l turn you over to Inspector Mitchell.” With an articulate sound—relief and promise combined, Lucy fled from the room. Thorne kept behind her making certain that she re- lturned to her own quarters. A mo- | mient later he tried Lambert's door. 1t opened to the touch and, locating a light switch, he pressed the but- | ten. Lucy was right, the butler was | not there, nor had the bed been slept in. A look in the closet showed | his hat and overcoat were missing. I Thorne stroked his chin thought- | fully: evidently Lambert had been in such haste that he had over- looked delivering the letter to Elsa. By such narrow margins, justice | was served! | Ten minutes later Thorne ap- proached his own room and taking a small awl from his tool belt, he | slipped it inside the key hole of his door to poke out the block of wood which had been put there to pre- vent any one from sypinz on him. 'he awl shot through the hole to its | £l Jength, meeting no obstacle. | Thorne withdrew the tool and ap- plied his eve to the keyhole—there was no light in his room—and, by the same token, there was no wood iv the keyhole, He turned the knob | and pushed against the door. It was | still Tocked, apparently, for it would | ot open Kking the key, which he carried in the pocket of his trousers, he inserted 1t in the leck and openad the door. It was an instant or so before Thorne entered his bedroom, first toking the precaution to slip his hand around the door jamb and turn on the lizhts. No one was in sight. Closing and locking the door, | he looked down on the floor. Some | distance away lay the wood plug. Its smooth surface bore unmistak- | able scratches where some sharp | instrument had been jammed into it. With revolver cocked and ready, he went into hoth closets in the room and then into the bathroom, only to return immediately, con- vinced that no other human being besides himself was there, Had the unknown who pushed the wooden peg out of the keyhole dene so simply for a look into his ;i nost obstinate lines. “You must let md be the best judge of his worth,’ she said. “Sometimes a servant can remain too long in one place, and,’ picking her words with care, “I feel Lambert has outlived his usefulness as a butler.” The steaming coffee cooled with the quantity of cream Winslow poured into it. He emptied his cup before replying, sipping it slowly. “Do as you think best.” He smiled across at his wife. “Your judgment i3 always sound. Send Lambert to me when he returns” Winslow pushed aside his plate, the bacon and eggs untasted, and rose. “Did you see Thorne before he left?” “Last night? No.” “I meant this morning; Thorne spent the night here.” He looked up and caught his wife's startléd ex- pression. “What is the matter? Are you il?” For a second she could not get her breath to answer. “I'll be all right in a minute. A glass of sherry, Arnold.” and so saying she slipped back in her chair in a dead faint. (Copyright, D. Appleton & Co.) Why does Mrs. Winslow faint at the news of Thorne's presence in the house the night before? Two new saints were canonized by Pope Fius. They were jucy Filippinl, founder of the Tilippini Sister order, and Catherine Thomas, Spanish run. Fillers recently BARRETT'S PANAMA HONKES WALARIA SUBJECTS Disease Apparently Cannot Be Passed on to Man Philadelphia, Oct. 17 (#—The monkeys of Panama have malaria, but it is no menace to mankind, Dr. Herbert C. Clark, director of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, told the American Congress of Surgeons in session here. Dr. Clark said that ten Urited States army recruits had volunteer- ed to aid in tests to determine whether that type of malaria could spread from monkey to man. For weeks, he stated, the “‘rookies,” who had just arrived from the United States, had been isolated from all other insects than mosquitoes in screened houses, where they were bitten almost continuously by mos. quitoes which had fed on monkeys suffering from malaria. Nore of) the men contracted the discase. Operatjons by which he said re- lief could be obtained for “bron- chiectasis,” a disease seldom heard of by most persons, was described | by Dr. Carl A. Hedblom of Chicago. 100 GALLONS —_— He said the disease was the most frequent chronic pulmonary ailment and that many who have a per- sistent cough are entirely free from tuberculosis, but are sufferers from “bronchiectasis” and inflammation oi the bronchial walls. Some individuals, Dr. Hedblom said, had dilation of the bronchial walls dating from their birth, but that symptoms of bronchiectasis ap- peared only after some bronchial af- fection. As evidence of the unsuspected commonness of this disease, Dr. Al- ton Ochsner, of Tulane University, said that 95 per cent of apparently nermal students at the University of Wisconsin who complained of fre- quent bronchitis were found to be suffering from bronchiectasis. He warned of the importance of clear- ing up low-grade infections of the bronchial tree and the accessory sinuses of the nose in order to pre- vent it. Electric Clock Tells Time at Harvard Games Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 17—A huge electric clock, the first electric timing device wused in American football, has been installed here for the Harvard-Army game tomorrow. It answers the thousands of queries heard at every gridiron classic, “How many minutes to play?” The clock’s dial is ten feet in diameter and is marked off in fif- teen divisions of one minute each. A pointer revolves around the dial at the rate of one revolution in fif- teen minutes, or one quarter of play. This pointer is driven by an electric mechanism which is syn- chronized with a control clock at the sideline timekeeper's bench. When the timekeeper throws the switch at the beginning of each quarter, the small control clock and the large spectators’ clock on the scorcboard begin telling time from zero. When the game is interrupt- ed for time out, the timekeeper merely puts his switch to “off” and both clocks stop until play is re- sumed. 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Shutting the door of Jack's workshop carefully, the detecitve crept along, headed for the sccond | story, but this time he chose thc stairs instead of the elevato Walls inclosed the stairs and a door, opening into the servants’ | wing of the house, gave admittance ‘!0 them. With no light to guide him, only his abnormal sense of locality, he | moved on down the hall, keeping in the center of the heavy strip of car- pet; he dared not run the risk of bumping inst a bedroom door nd thus awakening the slecping oc- cupant. Only by a turn in the carpet strip. could he tell that he had reached the main hallway. There he paused perplexed, for it also was in dark- ne cont v to the custom of the hous judging from the remarks | Arnold Winslow had let fall during one of their conversations as to his wife's terror of darknes nd fire and their habit of keeping the halls lighted throughout the night. His bedroom lay, as he mbered it, to the left and he faced in that di- rection just as a sound to the right reached him and he swung about. Thorne grew rigid. Was the per- son, not five yards from him, ap- proaching or going in the opposite di- ction? One minute, two minutes | passed, then Thorne took the initi- ative and advanced along the hall, his “creepers’ making no sound. Something loomed out of the darkness ahead and his out-flung | arms closed about a woman's form. TOMAHAWK SMOOTH SURFACE ROLL ROOFING For Roofing Sheds, Chicken Coops, Outbuildings, Floor Covering, etc. This is a very inexpensive roofing, made by Barrett. Nails and cement included with each roll. wind he dragged his body up, up up, and lay sprawling half on, ha g Off, the window ledge, just as th: light in the room went out. -~ For several minutes Thorne lav _“iwhere he was, too spent for furth exertion, but his brain was on Had the person room “him as he shot by the window ? by heaven, that mad whirlwind dancer could never have detectd him. And vet—and yet—the light had gone out. | Slowly, cautiously, he drew hin self up on the ledge and crouched | against the window, leaning h weight against it to keep his bal-| ance. The window, like all in tha house, opened outward and was in two sections, resembling small, glass paned doors. Thorne’s hand felt along his belt of tools and he drew out a piece of paste paper. . Sticking it over the pane opposit« a the window catch, he next took out *+ his glass cutter. Using it with care, he cut an opening large enough for _¥7Bim to fnsert his hand, and without 4 Moise he removed the paper and the _glass clinging to it. Thrusting his (% Tingers through the hole it took the - fraction of a second to unlatch that side of the window. Revolver in hand he slipped over the sill and Tnto the room, shutting the window - behind him. Not a sound broke the stillness as he stood with back against the vall. He slid one foot along after 4he other, sideways, until he judged he must be half-way around the bedroom to see if he was there, or | had the intruder, provided with & key, come inside and gone out, re- patient |locking the door? And was that |intruder the remarkable dancer “Ai't her name on it?” she in-|whose shadow he had seen for the als. Black Japanned holder auired anxiously. “Didn't I get the {sccond time silhouetted on the Regular $3.50 a gallon. Special for ht note in the dark?” | drawn curtain of the dormer win "he addressed to | dow of the locked room in the attic Miss Chase,” responded. “But| e frowned in bewilderment as A complete stock of Barrett's Roof- with hook for hanging on tomorrow wall. ng it m the op- | ho reached around and pulled the ing, Shingles and Roof Coating on s l GAL ! posite dircetion from the staircase | roading lamp by the side of the bed hand at all times, [ ] * ¢ leading to her bedroom?" closer to him. Then picking up the 3 The question confused Lucy | envelope he had taken from Lucy, for a second she did not reply. | he examined the words: “Miss Elsa “But T wasn't,” she said. tears|cpase” carefully through his mag- rolling down her checks. “I Was|pifying glass. Undoubtedly it to N Winslow.” | Jack Winslow’s writing. So that was how he communicated with She was plead- | Eisa—through Lambert. ing now, sobs almost choking her| For a moment Thorne hesitated, Voic “Mrs. Winslow promised o {then taking up his penknife he ran hundred dollars if T found Lambert |the heavy, linen-lined envelope and sneaking about. I saw him drop this | one of the blades under the flap of | letter after dinner, but I dassent |locked inside. It was empty. v and get it till T was sure he'l| The next second the room was A plunged in darkness and Thorne, | could not wait until |resting on his pillows, prepared for | it to Mrs. Wins- |a long vigil —one thought upper- ‘horne curiously. most in his mind. 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He ran his left hand over the board paneling in search of a light His hand across her mouth muffled her terrified scream to a gurgle, and half lifting, half dragging her along at the severe pronouncement of his | given name. “The servants are de-, moralized; Lucy ill in bed, Lambert | absent.”” She put the coffee pot and | cream pitcher on the dining {able | at his elbow. “It is best to discharge | Lambert." | Winslow's spoon rattled against | the side of his cup as he stirred his | coffee. “Discharge Lambert.” He repeated the words mechanically. | “My dear, after all these years of | | raithful service! ITmpossibl His wife's thin lips closed in their POLLY AND HER PALS ““gwitch. As he again moved side- ways, his shoulders brushed against & door jamb and he Dalted. This L time his groping fingsrs rourd the 5% gwitch. .. Thorne blinked, light. It was a | | | | “Arnold.” Her hushand winced i | | | he entered the open door of a v cant bedroom and switched on the lig he dropped to the floor at RADIATOR AIR MOISTE il:'ERI“I'}CTlON OIL HIEATICRS “es 0-HOUR ALARM CLOCKS ZE OLD ;iOY\' & GIRLS $2.75 Cyclone RUBBIS $5.49 veves 08 NGLISH WAX .. %LZIII\Q By or3 wee) m"ll(,;)n ALBREN, Inc. 282 MAIN STREET HARDWARE COMPAN 220 MAIN STREET TEL. 908 OR 909 GROWING REASON Chapter HOUSEHOLD INTRIGUE wl whici Mirded by ihe 3 secon? befors he | saw clearly. He had the room 10! pulling away himself. Turning to the door he | yejoped her head. thrust the brass bolt on it in place, d Lucy, the ho themmade a minute survey of what | moaning!” “had been Jack Winslow's workshop. BEr The only indication of the purpo: to which the room had been put was the long sink against the wall, the spectal electric fixtures hanging from the ceiling and a built-in shelf with glass doors. Except for that and a fire extinguisher, the walls| . Were bare. S + .+ Careful to keep from walking be- 5 % “tween the light and the window, 4 Fhorne dropped on hands and knees “®and circled the room. The walls and ceiling were paneled with wall board and he had about completed his tour when he spied a break in the paneling. Drawing closer, he | saw that it was a panel set on hinges. It opened easily and he looked into a dark aperture. With an inward curse that he had neg- lected to bring his flashlight with * him, he glanced hurriedly about the Toom. One of the electric fixtures s@gainst the wall had an extension | I cord attached. Picking up the bulb at the end of the cord he carried it to the tiny closet and looked inside Evidently the closet, or cupboard, WITH stop sharply, plasize his me gurgles ceased; givi ing prowling about the ho “I ain’t up to no harm tested, her voice hoarse from fright way to see—eh—— Getting hand shid he hated to Lucy caught gesture s she paused right toward his hip pocket thr n a woman but- the chili significance of shoot, mister sing both hands in sup- nd thereby releasing h n envelope, until then d in her right hand horne the paper s it flut- tered to the floor and turned it over Elsa ¢ was wr pencil o e se “Where did you get this manded, and his fi no CULTURAL ACADEMY KIP AINT GOT A CHINAMANS CHANCE OF OUTSNUBBIN' A SNOBRY SCHooLY SNIP./ ANT BUSTED BUT SHES Pl L.old caug s name led envelope * he closed r arm with to police Lucy whined POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLJN FOOD FOR THOUGHT WELL- THANKSG\VIN' DAY '=TORKEY DAY v MEBBE SHE PICKED THAT DAY /CAUSE SHES NST— = ;\ ARLE TDFERG\T SAY = FATSO=- MISS ANN \S GONNA BE MARRIED on TRANKSGIVIN® P U GoNbER, Wl SHE PICKED THAT GRAN'PA - LOHAT LWOULDIA CHARGE TO PLLUCK. A FEATHER BED THANKSGIVING PAY \S THE DATE FOR THE ORANGE BLOSSOM S AND WAGNER'S) POPULAR HIT 938 ARE INVITED % R.S.V.P. GONNA G\T MARRIED — Miss ANNT, . BN THANKSSNING: Dacl U 25 “It always makes me hu gry to watch Hiram singin’ .in the choir. He opens his mouth so wide it gets me +{ thinkin’ about a club sand- “wich.”. | Copyright, 1330, Publishers Syndicate || S R | | “Ma says I'm more hos- pitable than she is because || all T have to do is to invite || the people, while she has to 2et in the kitchen an’ cook for em.” LCo[vyrlshL 1930, Purlishers Syndic —