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The
letter
took
away
Carlotta
’
s
appetite
for
breakfast
.
She
pushed
back
her
chocolate
,
sat
up
in
bed
and
thought
hard
.
It
was
not
the
first
letter
of
the
kind
which
she
had
received
,
but
she
never
had
one
couched
in
such
threatening
terms
.
She
thought
herself
,
at
that
time
,
the
victim
of
a
thousand
jealous
attempts
and
went
about
saying
that
she
had
a
secret
enemy
who
had
sworn
to
ruin
her
.
She
pretended
that
a
wicked
plot
was
being
hatched
against
her
,
a
cabal
which
would
come
to
a
head
one
of
those
days
;
but
she
added
that
she
was
not
the
woman
to
be
intimidated
.
The
truth
is
that
,
if
there
was
a
cabal
,
it
was
led
by
Carlotta
herself
against
poor
Christine
,
who
had
no
suspicion
of
it
.
Carlotta
had
never
forgiven
Christine
for
the
triumph
which
she
had
achieved
when
taking
her
place
at
a
moment
’
s
notice
.
When
Carlotta
heard
of
the
astounding
reception
bestowed
upon
her
understudy
,
she
was
at
once
cured
of
an
incipient
attack
of
bronchitis
and
a
bad
fit
of
sulking
against
the
management
and
lost
the
slightest
inclination
to
shirk
her
duties
.
From
that
time
,
she
worked
with
all
her
might
to
"
smother
"
her
rival
,
enlisting
the
services
of
influential
friends
to
persuade
the
managers
not
to
give
Christine
an
opportunity
for
a
fresh
triumph
.
Certain
newspapers
which
had
begun
to
extol
the
talent
of
Christine
now
interested
themselves
only
in
the
fame
of
Carlotta
.
Lastly
,
in
the
theater
itself
,
the
celebrated
,
but
heartless
and
soulless
diva
made
the
most
scandalous
remarks
about
Christine
and
tried
to
cause
her
endless
minor
unpleasantnesses
.
When
Carlotta
had
finished
thinking
over
the
threat
contained
in
the
strange
letter
,
she
got
up
.
"
We
shall
see
,
"
she
said
,
adding
a
few
oaths
in
her
native
Spanish
with
a
very
determined
air
.
The
first
thing
she
saw
,
when
looking
out
of
her
window
,
was
a
hearse
.
She
was
very
superstitious
;
and
the
hearse
and
the
letter
convinced
her
that
she
was
running
the
most
serious
dangers
that
evening
.
She
collected
all
her
supporters
,
told
them
that
she
was
threatened
at
that
evening
’
s
performance
with
a
plot
organized
by
Christine
Daae
and
declared
that
they
must
play
a
trick
upon
that
chit
by
filling
the
house
with
her
,
Carlotta
’
s
,
admirers
.
She
had
no
lack
of
them
,
had
she
?
She
relied
upon
them
to
hold
themselves
prepared
for
any
eventuality
and
to
silence
the
adversaries
,
if
,
as
she
feared
,
they
created
a
disturbance
.
M
.
Richard
’
s
private
secretary
called
to
ask
after
the
diva
’
s
health
and
returned
with
the
assurance
that
she
was
perfectly
well
and
that
,
"
were
she
dying
,
"
she
would
sing
the
part
of
Margarita
that
evening
.
The
secretary
urged
her
,
in
his
chief
’
s
name
,
to
commit
no
imprudence
,
to
stay
at
home
all
day
and
to
be
careful
of
drafts
;
and
Carlotta
could
not
help
,
after
he
had
gone
,
comparing
this
unusual
and
unexpected
advice
with
the
threats
contained
in
the
letter
.
It
was
five
o
’
clock
when
the
post
brought
a
second
anonymous
letter
in
the
same
hand
as
the
first
.
It
was
short
and
said
simply
:
You
have
a
bad
cold
.
