That hand in my room could ensure her instantaneous presence in the flesh, and its equally rapid dissolution.
"Now comes the crown of my argument.

The purpose of the attack on me was to get the safe open, so that the sacred Jewel of Seven Stars could be extracted.

That immense door of the safe could not keep out her astral body, which, or any part of it, could gather itself as well within as without the safe.

And I doubt not that in the darkness of the night that mummied hand sought often the Talisman Jewel, and drew new inspiration from its touch.

But despite all its power, the astral body could not remove the Jewel through the chinks of the safe.