Doc. I think if I hadn't took her out, and John hadn't happened home, and Mollie had opened the box
instead of him-I think it's Mollie he'd have found lying dead beside him."
"You mean-"
"I mean the dolls go for whichever gets the cords," he said somberly.
Well, it was much the same thought I had in my own mind.
I asked: "But why should anybody want to kill Mollie?"
"Maybe somebody thinks she knows too much. And that brings me to what I've been wanting to tell you.
The Mandilip hag knows she's being watched!"
"Well, her watchers are better than ours." I echoed Ricori; and I told McCann then of the second attack
in the night; and why I had sought him.