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Before it is too late let us go you and I. Do you remember Havana, and the two months of heaven we spent there? Oh, let us go back to Havana, Lucy. Kazmah has made us rich. Let Kazmah die.... You smoke with me?" Again she became silent, then: "Very likely," she murmured; "very likely I know why you don't smoke.
"It affords evidence of this woman's callous coolness that she removed from the Kazmah premises, and probably assisted by her brother, although he denies it from the person and garments of the dead man, every scrap of evidence. They had not by any means finished the task when you knocked at the door, Gray. But they completed it, faultlessly, after you had gone.
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.
She felt that consciousness was slipping from her; felt herself falling, and shrieked to know herself helpless and alone with Kazmah. She groped for support, but found none; and, moaning, she sank down, and was unconscious of her fall. A voice awakened her.
Irvin; for she seemed to be speaking rapidly and excitedly to Sir Lucien. He recovered his place as the two turned in at a lighted doorway. Upon the wall was a bronze plate bearing the inscription: KAZMAH Second Floor Gray fully expected Mrs. Irvin to suggest that he should return later. But without a word she began to ascend the stairs.
"For Irvin's sake I hope not, Chief Inspector. There are two very curious points in the case apart from the mystery which surrounds the man Kazmah: the fact that Mareno, palpably an accomplice, stayed to face the music, and the fact that Sin Sin Wa likewise has made no effort to escape. Do you see what it means? They are covering the big man Kazmah. Once he and Mrs.
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.
Smaller dealers have been bought out or driven out, and today I believe it would be difficult, if not impossible, to obtain opium, cocaine, or veronal illicitly anywhere in London. Kazmah and Company had the available stock cornered. Of course, now that they are out of business, no doubt others will step in. It is a trade that can never be suppressed under existing laws."
He stumbled into the room, from which a heavy smell of perfume swept out upon the landing. Quentin Gray, snatching the lantern from the floor, where it had been replaced, was the next to enter. "Look for the switch, and turn the lights on!" called the Inspector, following. Even as he spoke, Gray had found the switch, and the apartment of Kazmah became flooded with subdued light.
"By the way, was there no staff attached to the latter concern?" Kerry chewed viciously. "No business of any kind seems to have been done there," he replied. "An office-boy employed by the solicitor on the same floor as Kazmah has seen a man and also a woman, go up to the third floor on several occasions, and he seems to think they went to the Cubanis office.
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