Harry Bartel is surprised to find that Doctor Watson has a lady friend visiting him. The old friend helps tell the night's mystery from a time when she was a little girl. Her widowed mom had three gentlemen calling on her for her affections. A banker, an artist, and a man named Tanner. The other players in young Cyndthia's life was a gypsy, and a retired detective who tended his bee hives.

When Watson visits, Cynthia runs down the lane with important news for her friend Sherlock. The doll made for Cyndthia is too much like a voodoo doll, but does that mean the girl may ve in danger? Holmes is on the trail to question the old gypsy, but finds the old woman has been fatally injured. What does her dying message mean?

Interviews are called for to see if the old woman was in cahoots with a killer. The three gentlemen are rounded up for the big reveal. Was it Tanner, the estate manager? Pound the banker who didn't understand little girls very well? Or King the artist, who was virtually penniless but opened the mind of the widow.