"Both," replied Dzino who never lost his temper. "And I want to get married."

Hanussen jeered at such "middle-class sentimentality". But his curiosity was roused. He asked: "Who is she? What's her name?"

"She's a hostess at the Palais de Dance," Dzino replied. "Her name is Grace Cameron."

Hanussen stared at him, his hangover forgotten. "That's impossible he said. "I won't let you do it."

There was a violent argument. The clairvoyant told his accomplice what he had told the English girl - that he would become her murderer if he married her. But Dzino did not believe his boss. After all, he knew too much of Hanussen's methods to take his predictions seriously - at least so far as he was himself concerned. In the end Hanussen shouted at him: "Go to hell, Dzino! Go to hell in your own way! I told you - you'll end as a murderer and a suicide. But I can't make you believe me… "

Indeed, he couldn't. Though Grace was far more impressed by Hanussen's sinister prediction than was Dzino Ismet, she was too deeply in love with the ex-officer to refuse to marry him. "Believe me, Dzino told her, "it was just bluff. He wanted to give a propaganda performance - to impress you or some other people in the Palais de Dance. It is all the same to him what he prophesies. Don't you notice his trick? He predicts so many different things that some of them must be fulfilled. People forget whatever is unpleasant or gloomy in his predictions. Basically we only believe what we like to believe. The rest we forget - within seconds or hours… "

This sounded logical enough - and Grace, in any case, was not an intellectual, she could not out-reason her lover. Three weeks later they were married.

In 1937, more than four years after Hanussen's death, an unemployed croupier shot his wife and child dead in Vienna and then committed suicide. His name was Dzino Ismet.