People: Bundles for Brownie

From the windows of their Fifth Avenue apartment, overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, an insurance broker and his wife saw a middle-aged woman carry a package into the park, put it under a bush and walk away. That seemed queer. Next day, at the same late afternoon hour, they saw her again. They watched to see what happened to the package. Nothing happened. But in the morning it was gone. No matter how late they watched—and sometimes they sat up very late, with binoculars—they never saw anyone take the box away. But in the morning, it was always gone.

The mysterious woman got...

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