GHOST OF EIFFEL TOWER INVADES CENTRAL PARK POLICEMAN FIGHTS PHANTOM

Something to laugh at and forget. A chuckle, donated to a busy city by earnest Officer Macfarland who undoubtedly was already sorry that he had not kept his mouth shut.

And the girl?

The later afternoon papers carried another item. Who would connect the two? Who, indeed! For this other item was still smaller, unobtrusive, not even amusing. Nor novel—and therefore, worthy of nothing but a passing glance:

Unknown girl found at gate of Central Park.

Unable to speak intelligibly. Victim of amnesia.

Taken to Bellevue. Later transferred to

Turber Hospital, Staten Island.

Who would think anything of that? But we three knew that we stood upon the threshold of a mystery, with its shadowy portals swinging wide to lure us in.