Lamont asked Mrs. Hoodmire to join him in the hallway. His mother had told him how lace had been smuggled out of the country in many awful ways. One such manner was by stuffing a deceased infant with lace and having a woman carry the child as if it were just sleeping.
The clue was the note – a golliwog is a doll. The shuttle was found in Mrs. Hoodmire’s child’s doll. She returned the Mclean. No charges were pressed, but she was banned from the tatting guild.
The End