HAROLD B. LEE LI8RAFIY BRIGHAM YOUNG UtJSVERSITY PROVO, UTAH THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA GASTON LEROUX Author of The Mystery ofthe Yellow Room and The Perfume of the Lady in Black ILLUSTRATED BY ANDRE CASTAIGNE GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK : : Copyright 1911 THE BOBES-MERRILL COMPANY THE LIBRARY BjySHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: PROVO. UTAH CONTENTS PAGE Prologue I I Is It the Ghost? 8 II TheNew Margarita . 21 III The Mysterious Reason 34 IV Box Five . 44 V The Enchanted Violin 61 VI AVisitto Box Five 82 VII Faust and What Followed 86 VIII The Mysterious Brougham 105 IX At the Masked Ball 116 X Forget the Name of the Man's Voice 129 XI Above the Trap-.Door.s .. 136 XII Apollo's Lyre 146 ...... XIII A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover 172 XIV The Singular Attitude of a Safety Pin 187 XV Christine! Christine! 196 XA'I Mme. Giry'sRevelations 203 XVII The Safety-Pin Again 217 XVIII TheCommissary,theViscountandthe Persian 226 . . . , . CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XIX The Viscount and the Persian 234 . XX IntheCellarsoftheOpera . . 243 XXI Interesting Vicissitudes 264 . . . XXII In the TortureChamber 282 . . . XXIII TheTortures Begin .291 . . . XXIV Barrels! Barrels! .300 . . . XXV The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which? 315 ...... XXVI The End of the Ghost's Love Story 325 Epilogue 337 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA