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"
Poligny
never
knew
how
far
that
extraordinary
blackguard
of
an
Erik
humbugged
him
.
"
—
The
Persian
,
by
the
way
,
spoke
of
Erik
sometimes
as
a
demigod
and
sometimes
as
the
lowest
of
the
low
—
"
Poligny
was
superstitious
and
Erik
knew
it
.
Erik
knew
most
things
about
the
public
and
private
affairs
of
the
Opera
.
When
M
.
Poligny
heard
a
mysterious
voice
tell
him
,
in
Box
Five
,
of
the
manner
in
which
he
used
to
spend
his
time
and
abuse
his
partner
’
s
confidence
,
he
did
not
wait
to
hear
any
more
.
Thinking
at
first
that
it
was
a
voice
from
Heaven
,
he
believed
himself
damned
;
and
then
,
when
the
voice
began
to
ask
for
money
,
he
saw
that
he
was
being
victimized
by
a
shrewd
blackmailer
to
whom
Debienne
himself
had
fallen
a
prey
.
Both
of
them
,
already
tired
of
management
for
various
reasons
,
went
away
without
trying
to
investigate
further
into
the
personality
of
that
curious
O
.
G
.
,
who
had
forced
such
a
singular
memorandum
-
book
upon
them
.
They
bequeathed
the
whole
mystery
to
their
successors
and
heaved
a
sigh
of
relief
when
they
were
rid
of
a
business
that
had
puzzled
them
without
amusing
them
in
the
least
.
"
I
then
spoke
of
the
two
successors
and
expressed
my
surprise
that
,
in
his
Memoirs
of
a
Manager
,
M
.
Moncharmin
should
describe
the
Opera
ghost
’
s
behavior
at
such
length
in
the
first
part
of
the
book
and
hardly
mention
it
at
all
in
the
second
.
In
reply
to
this
,
the
Persian
,
who
knew
the
MEMOIRS
as
thoroughly
as
if
he
had
written
them
himself
,
observed
that
I
should
find
the
explanation
of
the
whole
business
if
I
would
just
recollect
the
few
lines
which
Moncharmin
devotes
to
the
ghost
in
the
second
part
aforesaid
.
I
quote
these
lines
,
which
are
particularly
interesting
because
they
describe
the
very
simple
manner
in
which
the
famous
incident
of
the
twenty
-
thousand
francs
was
closed
:
"
As
for
O
.
G
.
,
some
of
whose
curious
tricks
I
have
related
in
the
first
part
of
my
Memoirs
,
I
will
only
say
that
he
redeemed
by
one
spontaneous
fine
action
all
the
worry
which
he
had
caused
my
dear
friend
and
partner
and
,
I
am
bound
to
say
,
myself
.
He
felt
,
no
doubt
,
that
there
are
limits
to
a
joke
,
especially
when
it
is
so
expensive
and
when
the
commissary
of
police
has
been
informed
,
for
,
at
the
moment
when
we
had
made
an
appointment
in
our
office
with
M
.
Mifroid
to
tell
him
the
whole
story
,
a
few
days
after
the
disappearance
of
Christine
Daae
,
we
found
,
on
Richard
’
s
table
,
a
large
envelope
,
inscribed
,
in
red
ink
,
"
WITH
O
.
G
.
’
S
COMPLIMENTS
.
"
It
contained
the
large
sum
of
money
which
he
had
succeeded
in
playfully
extracting
,
for
the
time
being
,
from
the
treasury
.
Richard
was
at
once
of
the
opinion
that
we
must
be
content
with
that
and
drop
the
business
.
I
agreed
with
Richard
.
All
’
s
well
that
ends
well
.
What
do
you
say
,
O
.
G
.
?
"
Of
course
,
Moncharmin
,
especially
after
the
money
had
been
restored
,
continued
to
believe
that
he
had
,
for
a
short
while
,
been
the
butt
of
Richard
’
s
sense
of
humor
,
whereas
Richard
,
on
his
side
,
was
convinced
that
Moncharmin
had
amused
himself
by
inventing
the
whole
of
the
affair
of
the
Opera
ghost
,
in
order
to
revenge
himself
for
a
few
jokes
.
I
asked
the
Persian
to
tell
me
by
what
trick
the
ghost
had
taken
twenty
-
thousand
francs
from
Richard
’
s
pocket
in
spite
of
the
safety
-
pin
.
He
replied
that
he
had
not
gone
into
this
little
detail
,
but
that
,
if
I
myself
cared
to
make
an
investigation
on
the
spot
,
I
should
certainly
find
the
solution
to
the
riddle
in
the
managers
’
office
by
remembering
that
Erik
had
not
been
nicknamed
the
trap
-
door
lover
for
nothing
.
I
promised
the
Persian
to
do
so
as
soon
as
I
had
time
,
and
I
may
as
well
tell
the
reader
at
once
that
the
results
of
my
investigation
were
perfectly
satisfactory
;
and
I
hardly
believed
that
I
should
ever
discover
so
many
undeniable
proofs
of
the
authenticity
of
the
feats
ascribed
to
the
ghost
.
The
Persian
’
s
manuscript
,
Christine
Daae
’
s
papers
,
the
statements
made
to
me
by
the
people
who
used
to
work
under
MM
.
Richard
and
Moncharmin
,
by
little
Meg
herself
(
the
worthy
Madame
Giry
,
I
am
sorry
to
say
,
is
no
more
)
and
by
Sorelli
,
who
is
now
living
in
retirement
at
Louveciennes
:
all
the
documents
relating
to
the
existence
of
the
ghost
,
which
I
propose
to
deposit
in
the
archives
of
the
Opera
,
have
been
checked
and
confirmed
by
a
number
of
important
discoveries
of
which
I
am
justly
proud
.
I
have
not
been
able
to
find
the
house
on
the
lake
,
Erik
having
blocked
up
all
the
secret
entrances
.
On
the
other
hand
,
I
have
discovered
the
secret
passage
of
the
Communists
,
the
planking
of
which
is
falling
to
pieces
in
parts
,
and
also
the
trap
-
door
through
which
Raoul
and
the
Persian
penetrated
into
the
cellars
of
the
opera
-
house
.
In
the
Communists
’
dungeon
,
I
noticed
numbers
of
initials
traced
on
the
walls
by
the
unfortunate
people
confined
in
it
;
and
among
these
were
an
"
R
"
and
a
"
C
.
"
R
.
C
.
:
Raoul
de
Chagny
.
The
letters
are
there
to
this
day
.
If
the
reader
will
visit
the
Opera
one
morning
and
ask
leave
to
stroll
where
he
pleases
,
without
being
accompanied
by
a
stupid
guide
,
let
him
go
to
Box
Five
and
knock
with
his
fist
or
stick
on
the
enormous
column
that
separates
this
from
the
stage
-
box
.
He
will
find
that
the
column
sounds
hollow
.
After
that
,
do
not
be
astonished
by
the
suggestion
that
it
was
occupied
by
the
voice
of
the
ghost
:
there
is
room
inside
the
column
for
two
men
.
If
you
are
surprised
that
,
when
the
various
incidents
occurred
,
no
one
turned
round
to
look
at
the
column
,
you
must
remember
that
it
presented
the
appearance
of
solid
marble
,
and
that
the
voice
contained
in
it
seemed
rather
to
come
from
the
opposite
side
,
for
,
as
we
have
seen
,
the
ghost
was
an
expert
ventriloquist
.
