Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-05-07
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
N. q. kETTMER

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Copyright. 1911. BY Tho Bobbs- NeFriu Oo1
synopsis.
CHAPTER I.-Consternation 10 caused
on the last night that the Opera 10 man.
aged by Debienne and Poligny because Of
| the appearance OF q ghost, said to have
been In evidence on several previous 90
casions. Later In the evening Joseph
Puquet = found dead. having hanged
CHAPTER 1I.-Christine Daae, . mem-
Der Of the opera company. 10 called upon
: great success S pS Count Or ae csasns s' and
his brother Raoul are among those who
applaud the singer. Raoul tries to So
unable to do so and later discovers that
some one is making love to her. She
emerges alone, and upon entering the
room he finds It empty.
CHAPTER I1I-whils the farewell
ceremony for the retiring managers is
The s9e
death. Richard and Moncharmin. the
new managers. are then informed Of the
Certain S :S% sSa ~s pa sdPs 70 It:
ghost and that box No. s shal b ~
served Tor him.
CHAPTER IY.-Box No. 10 sold with
| disastrous resultA Tho managers receive
letter from the Opera Ghost calling At
c tentSn to the s,ror The bog keeper 4
the ghost.
CHAPTER .v.-Christins Dsas writes
grave Of her father. BE goes also. and
in The niFht follow. her to the church,
y found next morning almost frozen.
CHAPTER VI.-Moncharmin and Rich.
ard Investigate box No. s and decide to
see the performance OF "Taust'' from
front seats OF that boz.
CHAPTER v1I-Carlotta, who sings
the leading part in Faust, 10 warned to
give the part to Christine. carlotta, re-
9 song and the main chandelier crashes
down. killing Q woman and woundinS
many.
CHAPTER V11I.-Raoul searches for
Christine who has disappeared. He sees
. note is received from her making an
appointment for masked ball
CHAPTER Ix.-Raoul meets Christine
at the ball and sees person in the dis.
guise Of Red Death. Of whom he Il jeal-
one whom she calls Erik. He makes his
presence known and Christine vanishes
through mirror.
CHAPTER x.-Raoul visits Christine
and tells her he knows the name Of the
OF usd to ss
get the voice and the name he heard
CHAPTER xIL-Christine relates .
strange adventure with the unseen Erik
and promises to run away with Raoul
the following night
CHAPTER XIII.-Raoul announces his
intention OF marrying Christine, which
darkness and Christine disappears.
CHAPTER XIv.-No trace Of her 10
found. Moncharmin and Richard behave
strangely.
CHAPTER Xv.-Raoul searches madly
Tor the missing singer.
CHAPTER XVI-The Opera Ghost de-
mands the first instnlment Of his allow.
ance, and when 1t is left at an appointed
place the sum mysteriously disappears.
CHAPTER XvII-.The managers care
fully guard the second payment OF the
Richards pocket while he and his partner
sit together behind locked doors.
CHAPTER xv11I.--Raoul goes in
search OF Christine. He meets q mys.
terious person known as the Persian.
CHAPTER xIx.-The Persian plans to
aid Raoul In locating Christine and they
gain access to q secret chamber.
The Persian had hardly finished
speaking, when fantastic face came
in sight whole fiery face.
not only two yellow eyes!
Yes, head of fire came toward
them. at mans height, but with no
body attached to it. The face shed
fire, looked in the darkness like
flame shaped as mans face.
"Oh." said the Persian, between his
teeth. Il have never seen this be-
fore! Pampin was not mad,
after all; he had seen It!
What can that flame be? 1t is not
he, but he may have sent 1t!
Take care! Take care!
Your hand at the level of your eyes.
III heavens name, at the level Of your
eyes! know most OF his
tricks but not this one.
Come, let us run. 1t is safer.
Hand at the level of your eyes!"
And they fed down the long pass
age that opened before them.
After a few seconds, that seemed
to them like long minutes. they
stopped.
"He doesn't often come this way"
said the Persian. This side has moth
ing to do with him. This side does
not lead to the lake nor to the house
on the lake. But perhaps he
knows that we are at his heels
although l promised him to leave him
alone and never to NEEDLE in his bus.
mess again!"
So saying, he turned his head and
Raoul also turned his head; and they
again saw the head OF fire behind
their two heads. It had followed
them. And 1t must have run also,
and perhaps faster than they, for 1t
seemed to be nearer to them.
At the same time, they began to
perceive a certain noise OF which
they could not guess the nature. They
simply noticed that the sound seemed
to move and to approach with the
fiery face 1t was a noise as though
thousands of nails had been scraped
against a blackboard, the perfectly
uncomfortable noise that is sometimes
made by little stone inside the chalk
that CRATES on the blackboard.
They continued to retreat, but the
fiery face came on, came On, gaining
on them. They could see It's features
clearly now. The eyes were round