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Now , in Sorelli’s room , there was a terrible silence . Then everybody heard a soft sound outside the door , like silk sliding over wood . Sorelli took the little knife which she always carried , and she opened the door . The passage was empty . A gas lamp threw a red light into the darkness . “ There is nobody there , ” she said , and she closed the door again . “ But we saw him ! ” said Jammes . “ He had his dead man’s head and his black coat , just as Joseph Buquet said . ” “ Joseph Buquet should hold his tongue , ” said Meg Giry quietly . “ Mother says that the ghost doesn’t like people to talk about him . ” The girls begged her to explain , and at last Meg told them her secret . Her mother , Madame Giry , looked after the private boxes on the first tier . One of them was Box Five , on the left , next to the stage . For more than a month nobody had used it except the ghost , and the managers had ordered the box office never to sell it . “ Does the ghost really come there ? ” asked the girls . “ Yes , but nobody sees him . You only hear him when he is in the box . Mother has never seen him , but she has heard him . She gives him his programme every evening . ” At that moment there were heavy steps in the passage , and the mother of little Jammes burst into the room . Her face was red , and she dropped into a chair . “ How awful ! ” she cried . “ Joseph Buquet is dead ! They found him hanging in the third cellar , between an old farmhouse and a scene from Le Roi de Lahore ! ” “ It’s the ghost ! ” cried Meg Giry , and then she put her hands over her mouth . “ No , no , I didn’t say it ! ” But all around her the frightened girls were whispering the same words . Nobody ever found out how Joseph Buquet had died . The police called it suicide , and that was the end of it . Yet one strange fact was written down later by Monsieur Moncharmin , one of the new managers . When people hurried down to the third cellar to cut him down , the rope had already gone . Somebody , it seemed , had wanted that rope to disappear . The girls left the room together and hurried to the ballet hall like frightened sheep . On the way they met the Count de Chagny , a tall , handsome man of forty - one , who was coming up the stairs in great excitement . “ Oh , Sorelli , what an evening ! ” he said . “ And Christine Daaé , what a triumph ! ” II . The Little Boy Who Fetched the Scarf That night had been a great gala to say goodbye to the old managers , Monsieur Debienne and Monsieur Poligny . The most famous composers in France had come to the Opera to conduct their own music , and the best singers in Paris had sung . But the real triumph of the evening belonged to a young singer who had been almost unknown until then : Christine Daaé .
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