..Whatever he humor or the joke, it""s rather bad taste to put on it.I think we""re agreed on that.Perhaps our humorist wouldn""t mind returning he Blue Water the way he got it - in the darkness.Turn off the lights, Isobel...Whoever took the Blue Water has had his chance.I don""t want a scandal at Brandon Abbas.I will leave the box on he table until morning.If the Blue Water is not back by then, of course I shall have to call the police.Good night.John: Have we a magician here?Digby: Or is Brandon Abbas haunted?The mystery of the stone""s disappearance is further heightened when the stone is not returned to its case.Debasing himself in order to mis-appropriate her earnings, he tells her that she will be paid the following Monday..." He had taped steak knives to his fingers to make a Freddy claw-hand, and he struck at her with the blades...That was Warren Sheffield calling long-distance to propose." The only member of the family unaware of the expected phone call is Papa, and he feels like an outsider:Just when was I voted out of this family?When the phone rings a second time, Rose answers and hesitantly (but yelling throughout in order to be heard) speaks to Warren while the entire family hangs on her every word.