' He also instructed Mareno to telephone
certain orders to Rashid, the Egyptian attendant. In spite of the
unforeseen meeting with Gray, all would have gone well, no doubt, if
Mrs. Sin had not chanced to be on the Kazmah premises at the time that
the message was received!
"I need not say that Mrs. Sin was a remarkable woman, possessing many
accomplishments, among them that of mimicry. She had often amused
herself by taking Mareno's place at the table behind Kazmah, and,
speaking in her brother's oracular voice, had delivered the
'revelations.' Mareno was like wax in his sister's hands, and on this
fateful night, when he arrived at the place--which he did a few
minutes before Mrs. Irvin, Gray and Sir Lucien--Mrs. Sin peremptorily
ordered him to wait upstairs in the Cubanis office, and she took her
seat in the room from which the Kazmah illusions were controlled.
"So carefully arranged was every detail of the business that Rashid,
the Egyptian, was ignorant of Sir Lucien's official connection with
the Kazmah concern. He had been ordered--by Mareno speaking from Sir
Lucien's flat--to admit Mrs. Irvin to the room of seance and then to
go home. He obeyed and departed, leaving Sir Lucien in the waiting-
room.
"Driven to desperation by 'Kazmah's' taunting words, we know that Mrs.
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