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After avoiding the commissary of police, a nu the rat-catcher and passing the man in the

felt hat unperceived, the viscount and I arrived without obstacle in

the third cellar, between the set piece and the scene from the Roi de

Lahore I worked the stone, and we jumped into the house which Erik

had built himself in the double case of the foundation-walls of the

Opera And this was the easiest thing in the world for him to do,

because Erik was one of the chief contractors under Philippe Garnier,

the architect of the Opera, and continued to work by hi the war, the siege of Paris and

the Commune

I knewinto his

house I knehat he hadtheconceivable, he soon turned it into

a house of the very devil, where you could not utter a word but it was

overheard or repeated by an echo With his trap-doors the edies of all kinds He hit upon

astonishing inventions Of these, the erous was the so-called torture-chamber Except in special cases,