How the Greatest Holy Leaf protected the Cause!?

According to the eyewitness account of Mr. Aziz Yazdi, on the day of the Master's funeral the Greatest Holy Leaf directed all the friends to attend His funeral. She alone remained behind, in the Master's House alone. She arranged for a policeman to be posted at the front gate to the Master's house, and had locksmith come and change the locks on all of the doors, and the keys were brought to her. She instructed Aziz Yazdi's brother, a boy, to ensure that no one entered the holy household without her express permission. Aziz Yazdi was outside in the street in the great thong of mourners in front of the Master's house, when he observed the crowd part, and two men approach the policeman at the gate. It was Mirza Muhammad-Ali and his brother. Feigning sadness, they asked the policeman if they could enter the Master's house to express their condolences to the Greatest Holy Leaf. Mr. Yazdi's brother ran from the gate to the presence of the Greatest Holy Leaf to inform her of this, while Mirza Muhammad-'Ali waited at the front gate with the policeman. The boy returned with her words to the effect, "Today is not the day for such things." Everyone in the crowd saw Muhammad-'Alí turned away at the gate. In this way, the Greatest Holy Leaf protected the Cause, preventing Muhammad-'Alí from seizing the Master's house. He was attempting a kind of a palace coup; and the Greatest Holy Leaf had foreseen that he would attempt just that. The House of the Master was more than a residence; it was the visible administrative center of the Cause. Other than the Shrine of the Bab, it was the only Baha'i edifice in the Holy Land at that time. The Greatest Holy Leaf, who was then 75 years of age, protected it, with a locksmith, a policeman, and a trusted boy from a trusted family.

(Reference: "Remembrances of 'Abdu'l-Bahá by Aziz Yazdi," a videotape available from the National Spiritual Assembly of the Hawaiian Islands, and personal conversations with Mr. Yazdi)