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Soon the moans that accompanied this sort of love's litany increased

and increased I have never heard anything nized that this terrible lamentation ca duth to cry out, while the monster was on his knees before her

Three times over, Erik fiercely bewailed his fate: "You don't love ently: "Why do you cry? You know it gives me pain to see you cry!"

A silence

Each silence gave us fresh hope We said to ourselves: "Perhaps he has left Christine behind the wall"

And we thought only of the possibility of warning Christine Daae of our

presence, unknown to the monster We were unable to leave the

torture-chamber now, unless Christine opened the door to us; and it was

only on this condition that we could hope to help her, for we did not

even knohere the door ht be

Suddenly, the silence in the next roo of

an electric bell There was a bound on the other side of the wall and

Erik's voice of thunder: "So! Walk in, please!"

A sinister chuckle

"Who has co now? Wait for me hereI AM GOING TO TELL

THE SIREN TO OPEN THE DOOR"

Steps moved away, a door closed I had no tiot that theout