Not long after this Lewis Benedikt is murdered in the forest, and Sears and Ricky decide that it is time to tell Donald the most terrible story that the Chowder Society knows — and it,too, is a true tale. Fifty years previously a young woman named Eva Galli had moved to the town. She was in her early twenties and all five of the young men fell head over heels for her, although it was a purely platonic love . One night in 1929—not long after Black Tuesday—Eva came to see them, but she was not acting like herself. She made sexual advances and belittled them. There was a struggle, and Eva fell and hit her head. Believing her to be dead, they conspired to hide the body by putting it in a car and driving it into a deep pond. But at the last moment Eva's body disappeared from the inside of the car, and there was a lynx looking at them from the other bank.