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The
column
was
elaborately
carved
and
decorated
with
the
sculptor
’
s
chisel
;
and
I
do
not
despair
of
one
day
discovering
the
ornament
that
could
be
raised
or
lowered
at
will
,
so
as
to
admit
of
the
ghost
’
s
mysterious
correspondence
with
Mme
.
Giry
and
of
his
generosity
.
However
,
all
these
discoveries
are
nothing
,
to
my
mind
,
compared
with
that
which
I
was
able
to
make
,
in
the
presence
of
the
acting
-
manager
,
in
the
managers
’
office
,
within
a
couple
of
inches
from
the
desk
-
chair
,
and
which
consisted
of
a
trap
-
door
,
the
width
of
a
board
in
the
flooring
and
the
length
of
a
man
’
s
fore
-
arm
and
no
longer
;
a
trap
-
door
that
falls
back
like
the
lid
of
a
box
;
a
trap
-
door
through
which
I
can
see
a
hand
come
and
dexterously
fumble
at
the
pocket
of
a
swallow
-
tail
coat
.
That
is
the
way
the
forty
-
thousand
francs
went
!
.
.
.
And
that
also
is
the
way
by
which
,
through
some
trick
or
other
,
they
were
returned
.
Speaking
about
this
to
the
Persian
,
I
said
:
"
So
we
may
take
it
,
as
the
forty
-
thousand
francs
were
returned
,
that
Erik
was
simply
amusing
himself
with
that
memorandum
-
book
of
his
?
"
"
Don
’
t
you
believe
it
!
"
he
replied
.
"
Erik
wanted
money
.
Thinking
himself
without
the
pale
of
humanity
,
he
was
restrained
by
no
scruples
and
he
employed
his
extraordinary
gifts
of
dexterity
and
imagination
,
which
he
had
received
by
way
of
compensation
for
his
extraordinary
uglinesss
,
to
prey
upon
his
fellow
-
men
.
His
reason
for
restoring
the
forty
-
thousand
francs
,
of
his
own
accord
,
was
that
he
no
longer
wanted
it
.
He
had
relinquished
his
marriage
with
Christine
Daae
.
He
had
relinquished
everything
above
the
surface
of
the
earth
.
"
According
to
the
Persian
’
s
account
,
Erik
was
born
in
a
small
town
not
far
from
Rouen
.
He
was
the
son
of
a
master
-
mason
.
He
ran
away
at
an
early
age
from
his
father
’
s
house
,
where
his
ugliness
was
a
subject
of
horror
and
terror
to
his
parents
.
For
a
time
,
he
frequented
the
fairs
,
where
a
showman
exhibited
him
as
the
"
living
corpse
.
"
He
seems
to
have
crossed
the
whole
of
Europe
,
from
fair
to
fair
,
and
to
have
completed
his
strange
education
as
an
artist
and
magician
at
the
very
fountain
-
head
of
art
and
magic
,
among
the
Gipsies
.
A
period
of
Erik
’
s
life
remained
quite
obscure
.
He
was
seen
at
the
fair
of
Nijni
-
Novgorod
,
where
he
displayed
himself
in
all
his
hideous
glory
.
He
already
sang
as
nobody
on
this
earth
had
ever
sung
before
;
he
practised
ventriloquism
and
gave
displays
of
legerdemain
so
extraordinary
that
the
caravans
returning
to
Asia
talked
about
it
during
the
whole
length
of
their
journey
.
In
this
way
,
his
reputation
penetrated
the
walls
of
the
palace
at
Mazenderan
,
where
the
little
sultana
,
the
favorite
of
the
Shah
-
in
-
Shah
,
was
boring
herself
to
death
.
A
dealer
in
furs
,
returning
to
Samarkand
from
Nijni
-
Novgorod
,
told
of
the
marvels
which
he
had
seen
performed
in
Erik
’
s
tent
.
The
trader
was
summoned
to
the
palace
and
the
daroga
of
Mazenderan
was
told
to
question
him
.
Next
the
daroga
was
instructed
to
go
and
find
Erik
.
He
brought
him
to
Persia
,
where
for
some
months
Erik
’
s
will
was
law
.
He
was
guilty
of
not
a
few
horrors
,
for
he
seemed
not
to
know
the
difference
between
good
and
evil
.
He
took
part
calmly
in
a
number
of
political
assassinations
;
and
he
turned
his
diabolical
inventive
powers
against
the
Emir
of
Afghanistan
,
who
was
at
war
with
the
Persian
empire
.
The
Shah
took
a
liking
to
him
.
This
was
the
time
of
the
rosy
hours
of
Mazenderan
,
of
which
the
daroga
’
s
narrative
has
given
us
a
glimpse
.
Erik
had
very
original
ideas
on
the
subject
of
architecture
and
thought
out
a
palace
much
as
a
conjuror
contrives
a
trick
-
casket
.
The
Shah
ordered
him
to
construct
an
edifice
of
this
kind
.
Erik
did
so
;
and
the
building
appears
to
have
been
so
ingenious
that
His
Majesty
was
able
to
move
about
in
it
unseen
and
to
disappear
without
a
possibility
of
the
trick
’
s
being
discovered
.
