--I Just needed to get your attention and I thought that tap-tap-tapping wouldn't quite do it. I have returned to tell you that the whole thing has been a fake, the robbery, the abduction and the ransom demands. Martha Pandybat herself is the ringleader of this bunch of rounders.

--Impossible! Martha could never be a criminal.

--She's not. None of these citizens is a real criminal. It was all set up by the museum and the insurance company. The plan was to make the public believe that the scepter and other items were gone and that replicas were in their places on display. That way, actual thieves would have no further interest in stealing them. This case is closed.

--But Amber Hiccums, everybody thought..., nobody could have..., how th...?

--I saw it in his eyes while we were questioning him so I went back and broke into the museum room and searched through the file cabinets. I scratched up a letter which explains all. They were just paying the ransom to themselves and the child was never in any danger. The constabulary might have a word or two to say about the ruse, but our work is finished.

Amber smoothed down her ever-up collar,

--Armie, Harmie, it has been a great joy celebrating the solving of this little mystery together and now summer is hiccumin' in and I'm off to see Raoul, so beastly 'bye. I'll see you in my dreamy-dreams. I hate long goodbyes, yes I do, yes I do. Yes, Adieu.