Day by day, I kept him informed of the progress of my inquiries and he directed them.

It fell to my lot to complete those proofs with the aid of the daroga himself. The Persian alone knew the whole truth and held the main proofs, which came to him with the pious relics promised by the ghost. `We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.'Īnd even that was written by way of irony. One evening paper alone, which knew all the gossip of the theaters, said: le Juge d'Instruction Faure, the newspapers made efforts, at intervals, to fathom the mystery.

Long after the case was pigeonholed by the unintelligent care of M. Possibly, some day, I shall hear the lonely echoes of the North repeat the singing of her who knew the Angel of Music!. Possibly, I too shall take the train at that station, one day, and go and seek around thy lakes, O Norway, O silent Scandinavia, for the perhaps still living traces of Raoul and Christine and also of Mamma Valerius, who disappeared at the same time!. They took the train one day from 'the northern railway station of the world.'. She was represented as the victim of a rivalry between the two brothers and nobody suspected what had really happened, nobody understood that, as Raoul and Christine had both disappeared, both had withdrawn far from the world to enjoy a happiness which they would not have cared to make public after the inexplicable death of Count Philippe. What had become of that wonderful, mysterious artist of whom the world was never, never to hear again?. The kidnapping of the artist, the death of the Comte de Chagny under such exceptional conditions, the disappearance of his brother, the drugging of the gas-man at the Opera and of his two assistants: what tragedies, what passions, what crimes had surrounded the idyll of Raoul and the sweet and charming Christine!. There is no need to repeat here how greatly the case excited the capital. There are to-day so many proofs of his existence within the reach of everybody that we can follow Erik's actions logically through the whole tragedy of the Chagnys.

As I declared on the first page of this work, it is no longer possible to deny that Erik really lived. I HAVE now told the singular, but veracious story of the Opera ghost.

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