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"I still can't believe you opened before sunrise on a Tuesday." "Mrs. Peabody wanted her lemon scones for the garden club. You know how she gets." "She gets what she wants, and you get flour in your hair. Again." "It's the secret ingredient. Now, try this. I added almond extract to the cherry danish." "You didn't hear about the excitement down at the new hardware store parking lot?" "I've been elbow-deep in dough since five. What excitement?" "The back door of the yarn shop was jimmied last night. Right after Mildred turned the sign to closed." "Not the yarn shop. Was anything taken?" "Three whole bins of imported merino. And something even stranger. A wool scarf." "Mildred's lucky scarf? The one she knitted during the drought?" "That's the one. Mrs. Gunderson found it dangling from your bakery awning this morning." "Our awning? But I swept the front stoop at six. It wasn't there." "Exactly. Which means it appeared between six and seven. While you were inside wrestling with the sourdough ovens." "So someone walked right up in broad daylight and left evidence on my door." "Or someone wanted me to find it there. Either way, Sheriff Daniels is already asking questions." "Then I'd better save him the biggest danish. Sugar always makes him reasonable."