Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30

| NOS SIT, Sdlu Lu0 f6TSldu Sduly
II do not hate him. II l hated him
he would long ago have ceased doing
HARM"
HAS he done you harm?"
II have forgiven him the harm
which he has done me-"
II do not understand you. You
treat him as monster, you speak OF
his crime, he has done you harm and
l find in you the same inexplicable
| pity that drove me to despair when
| saw it in Christine!"
The Persian did not reply. He
fetched stool and set 1t against the
wall facing the great mirror that
filled the whole OF the wall-space op.
posite. Then he climbed on the stool,
and, with his nose to the wallpaper,
seemed to be looking for something.
"Ah," he said, after a long search.
II have it!'
And, raising his finger above his
head, he pressed against corner in
the pattern of the paper. Then he
turned round and jumped of the
STOOL
In half minute" he said, I'VE
shall be on his road" and crossing
the whole length of the dressing.
room he felt the great mirror.
mo, it is not yielding yet" he NUT.
tered.
"Oh, are we going out by the mir.
ror?" asked Raoul. Like Christine
Daae."
80 you knew that Christine Daae
went out by that mirror"
"She did so before my eyes, sir! |
was hidden behind the curtain OF the
inner room and saw her vanish not
by the glass. but In the glass;"
And what did you do?"
Il thought it was an alteration Of
my senses, mad dream. :"
"Or some new fancy of the
ghost's!" chuckled the Persian. "Ah,
NJ. de Chagny.'' he continued, still
with his hand on the mirror, would
that we had to do with ghost! We
could then leave our pistols In their
case. Put down your hat.
please there and
now cover your sh1rt-front as much
as you can with your coat as
I am doing. Bring the lapels
forward turn up the collar.
We must make ourselves as
invisible as possible. -
Bearing against the mirror, after a
short silence, he said:
1T takes some time to release the
counterbalance, when you press on
the spring from the inside of the
room. 1t is different when you are
behind the wall and can act directly
on the counterbalance. Then the mir.
ror turns at once and Is moved with
incredible rapidity."
What cOunterbalance?" asked
Raoul
why, the counterbalance that lifts
the whole OF this wall on to Its pivot
You surely don't expect it to move
of itself. by enchantment! II you
watch, you will see the mirror first
rise an inch or two and then shift an
inch or two from left to right. 1t will
then be on a pivot and will swing
round"
It's not turning!" said Raoul i'm.
patiently.
"Oh. wait! You have time enough
to be impatient, sir! The mechanism
has obviously become rusty, or else
the spring isn't working. I'm
less it is something else," added the
Persian anXiously.
"What?"
HE may simply have cut the cord
of the counterbalance and blocked
the whole apparatus.
why should he? He does not
know that We are coming this way!"
II dare say he suspects 1t, for he
knows that I understand the system"
Its not turning! And
Christine, sir, Christine?"
The Persian said coldly:
I'VE shall do all that it is humanity
possible to do! But he may
stop us at the first step! He
commands the walls, the doors and
the trap-doors. In my country, he was
known by name which means the
'trap-door lover"
but WHY uO THESE walls opes AAAA
alone? He did not build them!"
Yes. sir, that is just what he did,"
Raoul looked at him in amazement;
,ut the Persian made a sign to him to
be silent and pointed to the glass.
. There was sort Of shivering
reflection. Their image was troubled
as in a ripping sheet OF water and
then all became stationary again.
You see, sir, that it is not turn
Ing! Let us take another road!"
Tonight, there is no other!" de-
clared the Persian, in singulary
voice. And now. look out!
And be ready to fire.
He himself raised his pistol oppo-
site the glass. Raoul initiated his
With his free arm, the
Persian drew the young man to his
chest and, suddenly. the mirror
turned, in binding daze Of cross
lights; it turned like one OF those re-
volving doors which have lately been
fixed to the entrances OF most res
taurants, it turned, carrying Raoul |
and the Persian with it and suddenly |
hurting them from the full light into
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