On Sido's deck in the Berkeley Oakland hills, on a slowly warming Friday Morning, Caydance and Sido were drinking coffee, eating apple scones. Tyrone was at the Coliseum working on torn up grass that was the aftermath of games one and two of the 1989 American League Championship Series. At home, the A's won the first two games. In the Toronto Sky Dome, game three would begin that afternoon. It was indeed Anne-Merry who bought the music box at Thrift town, Caydance told Sido. Ten years ago on the occasion of the birth of her daughter, her Mother and Father, Pete and Merry Lafitte, had given her the book of hours. "Until recently she kept it her studio -- she's a landscape architect -- where every morning before her working day began, she turned to a new page." Last year, she decided to house the manuscript in a container where it was safer and less obvious. "It was such a container that Anne-Merry had been seeking for months when on the Thrift Town shelves, she found a large music box that played a French children's song. On its sides she painted the story of the recent provenance of the Music Box Book of Hours."

There is something Nicolas wants to know, Caydance said to Sido. "Did you pull up the panel beneath the compartment where the Book of Hours was housed? That is why I brought it with me today."