Cheap Gothic Soap Opera, Part 37

"wwaauuuwwiie hu hi ha powwooo-oooooh hunoo no nooo no," she said in dog-speak.

But then it was all clear...all of the clues and hints and fear and worries fell together. The dog was not a dog at all, but a cat dressed in dog hair. This could only mean that the man who came to murder her was hired by Horold; but because it was a cat in dog suite and not vice-versa, Heruld did not want to kill her, but only to take her ring.

But why the ring? Well, the cat/dog had violet-pink fur, so the ring could only have been a secret key to the tower room in the abandoned west wing.

(OP: Ben, January 31 2007)