"An' that," he said when I had ended, "Proves the Mandilip hag knows who's who behind the watch on
her. She tried to wipe out both the boss and Mollie. She's onto us, Doc."
"The dolls are accompanied," I said. "The musical note is a summons. They do not disappear into thin air.
They answer the note and make their way…somehow to whoever sounds the note. The dolls must be
taken from the shop. Therefore one of the two women must take them. How did they evade your
watchers?"
"I don't know." The lean face was worried. "The fish-white gal does it. Let me tell you what I found out,
Doc. After I left you last night I go down to see what the boys have to say. I hear plenty. They say about
four o'clock the gal goes in the back an' the old woman takes a chair in the store. They don't think
nothing of that. But about seven who do they see walking down the street and into the doll joint but the