le. 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.' At first,
apparently, the drug business was conducted independently of the Kazmah
concern, but the facilities offered by the latter for masking the former
soon became apparent to the wily Sin Sin Wa. Thereupon the affair was
reorganized on the lines later adopted in Bond Street. Kazmah's became
a secret dope-shop, and annexed to it was an elaborate chandu-khan,
conducted by the Chinaman. Mrs. Sin was the go-between.

"You are all waiting to hear--or, to be exact, two are waiting to hear,
Gray and Margaret already know--who spoke as Kazmah through the little
window behind the chair. The deep-voiced speaker was Juan Mareno, Mrs.
Sin's brother! Mrs. Sin's maiden name was Lola Mareno.

"Many of these details were provided by Mareno, who, after the death of
his sister, to whom he was deeply attached, volunteered to give crown
evidence. Most of them we have confirmed from other sources.

"Behold 'Kazmah the dream-reader,' then, established in Buenos Ayres.
The partners in the enterprise speedily acquired considerable wealth.
Sir Lucien--at this time plain Mr. Pyne--several times came home and
lived in London and elsewhere like a millionaire. There is no doubt, I
think, that he was seeking a suitable opportunity to establish a London
branch of the business."

"My God!" said Monte Irvin. "How horrible it seems!"

"Horrible, indeed!" agreed Seton. "But there are two fea