It that out that quite a few people had heard about the incident - the poor girl had caused such a ruckus, protesting her innocence in hysterical tears at every turn, that word of her plight was spreading quickly through the city even though it had just been half a day since her arrest. Details on her were conflicting and everybody seemed to have heard a different tale. Some blamed the Mice and Men, abbreviated Mams, since there had apparently been dead rats at the scene, obviously left as a calling card. Others believed the Knobs - much easier to say that the tongue-twister that the Knightly Nightly Order was - did it and left the rats to frame their rivals. Still others argued that it was an inside job and the maid had did it after all, since only the relative modest sum of fifty gold pieces had been taken, most likely to skim off the inn's profits and hide the deed. In their story only the vigilance of the inn's owner, rechecking the sums before depositing the gold at the bank, had detected the theft. Shay's own line of questioning was adding fuel to the fire as well; more people began to say that the whole safe itself had been stolen after hearing or overhearing her.