 In her rocking chair, Mana Aurora reads to her sister from the paper: the Masked Bandit has struck again. They leave the room, and a man looks though the window, then comes in through the door carrying a heavy sack. He starts to scrape the walls, and on raising a cloud of dust from the old whitewash pulls out a bandanna and ties it over his face. Aurora steps in, sees the man, and sneaks out herself unseen. Ana and Aurora eventually confront the man with Grandpa s rifle, which the masked man recognizes as a theater prop. After a number of confusions - he says he s there to "clean out" the place, and his nickname on his soccer team is "Masked" - the police arrive. Everything is sorted out - the landlord had promised to send someone. Ana tells the policeman that the sisters were in terror that the man would attack them. He responds that if he liked old things he d visit a museum, and the sisters chase him from the room.