Nothing! Always nothing! Although here it was noticed that the grass looked to be pressed down in a way that seemed suspicious and certainly was inexplicable; and at the edge of the clearing there were traces of a recent struggle.

Perhaps a band of scoundrels had attacked the colleagues here in the deserted park in the middle of the night! It was possible.

The police proceeded with their inquiries in all due form and with all lawful slowness.

They dragged the Schuyllkill river, and cut into the thick bushes that fringe its banks; and if this was useless it was not quite a waste, for the Schuyllkill is in great want of a good weeding, and it got it on this occasion.
Practical people are the authorities of Philadelphia! Then the newspapers were tried.

Advertisements and notices and articles were sent to all the journals in the Union without distinction of color.