"How Sir Lucien came to get into the clutches of the pair I do not
know. But that he did so we have ascertained beyond doubt. I think,
personally, that his third vice--opium--was probably responsible. For
Sin Sin Wa appears throughout in the character of a drug dealer.
"These three people really become interesting from the time that La
Belle Lola quitted the stage and joined her husband in the conducting
of a concern in Buenos Ayres, which was the parent, if I may use the
term, of the Kazmah business later established in Bond Street. From a
music-hall illusionist, who came to grief during a South American
tour, they acquired the oriental waxwork figure which subsequently
mystified so many thousands of dupes. It was the work of a famous
French artist in wax, and had originally been made to represent the
Pharaoh, Rameses II., for a Paris exhibition. Attired in Eastern
robes, and worked by a simple device which raised and lowered the
right hand, it was used, firstly, in a stage performance, and
secondly, in the character of 'Kazmah the Dream-reader.'
"Even at this time Sir Lucien had access to good society, or to the
best society which Buenos Ayres could offer, and he was the source of
the surprising revelations made to patrons by the 'dream-reader.
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