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"
Mm
.
Debienne
and
Poligny
seemed
to
grow
more
and
more
excited
,
and
they
appeared
to
have
something
very
difficult
to
tell
us
.
First
,
they
asked
us
if
we
knew
the
man
,
sitting
at
the
end
of
the
table
,
who
had
told
them
of
the
death
of
Joseph
Buquet
;
and
,
when
we
answered
in
the
negative
,
they
looked
still
more
concerned
.
They
took
the
master
-
keys
from
our
hands
,
stared
at
them
for
a
moment
and
advised
us
to
have
new
locks
made
,
with
the
greatest
secrecy
,
for
the
rooms
,
closets
and
presses
that
we
might
wish
to
have
hermetically
closed
.
They
said
this
so
funnily
that
we
began
to
laugh
and
to
ask
if
there
were
thieves
at
the
Opera
.
They
replied
that
there
was
something
worse
,
which
was
the
GHOST
.
We
began
to
laugh
again
,
feeling
sure
that
they
were
indulging
in
some
joke
that
was
intended
to
crown
our
little
entertainment
.
Then
,
at
their
request
,
we
became
’
serious
,
’
resolving
to
humor
them
and
to
enter
into
the
spirit
of
the
game
.
They
told
us
that
they
never
would
have
spoken
to
us
of
the
ghost
,
if
they
had
not
received
formal
orders
from
the
ghost
himself
to
ask
us
to
be
pleasant
to
him
and
to
grant
any
request
that
he
might
make
.
However
,
in
their
relief
at
leaving
a
domain
where
that
tyrannical
shade
held
sway
,
they
had
hesitated
until
the
last
moment
to
tell
us
this
curious
story
,
which
our
skeptical
minds
were
certainly
not
prepared
to
entertain
.
But
the
announcement
of
the
death
of
Joseph
Buquet
had
served
them
as
a
brutal
reminder
that
,
whenever
they
had
disregarded
the
ghost
’
s
wishes
,
some
fantastic
or
disastrous
event
had
brought
them
to
a
sense
of
their
dependence
.
"
During
these
unexpected
utterances
made
in
a
tone
of
the
most
secret
and
important
confidence
,
I
looked
at
Richard
.
Richard
,
in
his
student
days
,
had
acquired
a
great
reputation
for
practical
joking
,
and
he
seemed
to
relish
the
dish
which
was
being
served
up
to
him
in
his
turn
.
He
did
not
miss
a
morsel
of
it
,
though
the
seasoning
was
a
little
gruesome
because
of
the
death
of
Buquet
.
He
nodded
his
head
sadly
,
while
the
others
spoke
,
and
his
features
assumed
the
air
of
a
man
who
bitterly
regretted
having
taken
over
the
Opera
,
now
that
he
knew
that
there
was
a
ghost
mixed
up
in
the
business
.
I
could
think
of
nothing
better
than
to
give
him
a
servile
imitation
of
this
attitude
of
despair
.
However
,
in
spite
of
all
our
efforts
,
we
could
not
,
at
the
finish
,
help
bursting
out
laughing
in
the
faces
of
MM
.
Debienne
and
Poligny
,
who
,
seeing
us
pass
straight
from
the
gloomiest
state
of
mind
to
one
of
the
most
insolent
merriment
,
acted
as
though
they
thought
that
we
had
gone
mad
.
"
The
joke
became
a
little
tedious
;
and
Richard
asked
half
-
seriously
and
half
in
jest
:
"
’
But
,
after
all
,
what
does
this
ghost
of
yours
want
?
’
"
M
.
Poligny
went
to
his
desk
and
returned
with
a
copy
of
the
memorandum
-
book
.
The
memorandum
-
book
begins
with
the
well
-
known
words
saying
that
’
the
management
of
the
Opera
shall
give
to
the
performance
of
the
National
Academy
of
Music
the
splendor
that
becomes
the
first
lyric
stage
in
France
’
and
ends
with
Clause
98
,
which
says
that
the
privilege
can
be
withdrawn
if
the
manager
infringes
the
conditions
stipulated
in
the
memorandum
-
book
.
This
is
followed
by
the
conditions
,
which
are
four
in
number
.
"
The
copy
produced
by
M
.
Poligny
was
written
in
black
ink
and
exactly
similar
to
that
in
our
possession
,
except
that
,
at
the
end
,
it
contained
a
paragraph
in
red
ink
and
in
a
queer
,
labored
handwriting
,
as
though
it
had
been
produced
by
dipping
the
heads
of
matches
into
the
ink
,
the
writing
of
a
child
that
has
never
got
beyond
the
down
-
strokes
and
has
not
learned
to
join
its
letters
.
This
paragraph
ran
,
word
for
word
,
as
follows
:
"
’
5
.
Or
if
the
manager
,
in
any
month
,
delay
for
more
than
a
fortnight
the
payment
of
the
allowance
which
he
shall
make
to
the
Opera
ghost
,
an
allowance
of
twenty
thousand
francs
a
month
,
say
two
hundred
and
forty
thousand
francs
a
year
.
’
"
M
.
