While Griff lunched with fellow Huygens coaches, Caydance was alone in her studio. From the description of the woman who had bought the music box, she was making a drawing for Sido. Sido frequented upscale events for curators and collectors, perhaps she would recognize this woman from the drawing. In the way that long ago, artists painted saints identified by attributes (Saint John the Baptist with a lamb, for instance), a container adorned with iconography that revealed the significance of its contents was an artist or an art historian's action. But did the painter of the music box realize that their identity might be revealed?

Contemplating the situation that confronted Sido, Caydance recalled how as a child, she was thrilled when after Thanksgiving dinner, an Uncle, who had fought on the beaches of Normandy, displayed an unloaded Luger pistol. Now, the German guns that soldiers brought home, whether taken from the bodies of dead German soldiers or discovered in abandoned enemy homes, seemed less morally acceptable than they did when World War II was a recent memory. Ownership of a manuscript acquired in a war zone might be contentious, even if acquired legitimately, whether through purchase or in a card game.