“No, goosey! One woman younger than the other, and looking exactly like her, as she looked before the injury to her face.”
“Sisters?”
“No. Mother and daughter.”
“And the change in the bath?”
“Managed with a false bottom and trap exit. The sort of trick one sees exposed at the Egyptian Hall.”
“And the daughter took the mother’s place?”
“Under cover of the incense—and the singing. The tent held two, you understand.”
“But Mrs. Van Wacken?”
“Momma and the other ladies—once the thing had been proved genuine—were only too anxious to plank down their money and hop into the wonderful bath. So they went up to the Theologa, and she blessed them and laid the five money-bags on the altar, and then——”
“Then——”