Who was this girl found dead in Central Park?
Had she, indeed, been foully murdered? If so, by what mysterious means?
What had been the object? Who the perpetrator of the crime?
Or, on the other hand, was the evidence itself misleading, and had the
unfortunate girl selected that sequestered seat in the park, and there
deliberately committed suicide? Even then, by what means had the deed
been accomplished? What had been the occasion?
What, moreover, had become of her companion at just that time? Why had
he deserted her? What signified the pin-punctured wrapping paper, and
the empty jewel casket, in the dead girl's possession?
Had the casket contained jewels of great value? Had the girl been robbed
of them, and then foully murdered in some mysterious way?
Was Harry Boyden, the clerk employed by Hafferman, the last to leave the
girl that fateful afternoon? Was he responsible for her death? Was
robbery the incentive to the crime?
Or, on the other hand, had Boyden left the girl alive and well, and was
the crime the work of another?
Or, finally, was there some strange and startling connection between
this park murder and the robbery committed at Venner's store? Was there,
between the two crimes, some extraordinary bond yet to be
discovered--some tie uniting the two misdeeds as if with links of steel?
These were some of the conflicting questions that occurred to Nick
Carter that afternoon, and in order to consider them before taking any
decided action in the matter, Nick had kept to himself his startling
discoveries, and left Officer Fogarty to take the customary steps in the
affair.
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