The news soon spread around Kiskadee Village and people had all kinds of theories about its disappearance. Suspicion fell on De Bodderashun Lil Bais, as usual, and there were even whispers that Enid’s husband Cyril had taken the mortar and pestle as a gift to his outside woman. It has yet to be proved that Cyril actually has an outside woman, but his fondness for giving lifts to pretty girls on his bicycle does not help his case.