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'An old lady living in retirement was elated when her son and her brother-in-law invited her to spend a holiday at a tourist resort as their guests. She was a delightful old lady, one to whom people turned naturally and in whom they placed immediate and well-founded trust. She was not to know that her two hosts, racketeers both, saw her as a decoy, using her obvious goodness as a cover for a splendid fleecing season.
'Overhearing a telephone conversation between her son and a girl with whom he was obviously in love, although he was about to announce his engagement to a fellow-guest at the hotel, she realized that she had been invited to the hotel for a definite purpose, and she realized what that purpose was.
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