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T/ie 1927 Set. Ready in 1926 BATTERYLESS RADIO No A Batteries NoBBatteries HoAeneH/ JustPhid in ThenTimein! Aik Your Local Dealer for a Q.R.S. MUSIC CO., Free Demonstration in Your Own Home. LTD. TORONTO, ONT. whmt WM bthlnd. . . . And now too don't mind looking at it and you for- t»t what U twhindl . . . On* can |^ used to evvrythinff ... if one wi*h«e. . . Plenty of youny people who did not caro for each other before mar- riag» have adored each other since! Oh, I don't know what I am talking about I But you wwu'.d have lota of fun with rae. For instance, I am the fore- most ventriloquist in the world 1 . . . You're lauKhinjr- • • Perhaps you don' believe me. LiKten." The wi^tch, who really was the greatest ventriloquist in the world, was only trying to divert the child's attention from the torture-chamber, but it was a .stupid scheme, for CSiris- tine thought of nothinj? but us! She repeatedly besought him, in the gentl- est tone which she could as.sume: "Put out the light in the little win- dow! . . . Erik, do put out the light in the little window 1" For she saw that this light, which appeared so suddenly and of which the monster hud spoketi in no threatening a voice, must mean something terrible. One thing must have pacified her a moment; and that was seeing the two of us behind the wall, in the midst of the resplendent light, alive and wc'.l. But she would certainly have left much easier if the light had laeen put out. Meantime, the other had already be- gun to play the ventriloquist. He said : "Here, I raise my mask a little. . . . Oh, only a little! . . . You see my lips, such lips as I have? They're not moving! . . . My mouth is closed â€" such mouth as 1 have â€" and yet you hear my voice. . . . Where will you have it? In your left ear? In your right ear? In the table? In those little ebony boxes on the mantelpiece? . . . Listen, dear, it's in the little box on the right of the mantelpiece: what docs it say in the little box on the left? scorpion?' But, Already, swifter, mor* ilwtlnf than the voice of the echo, Erik'* vole* had Uaped back behind tile wmlll Soon we bMrd nothing naore at ftU, for this is what happened: "Erik! Erik!" saidChrisHne't vote*. You tire me with your voice. Don't go, on, Erik! Isn't it very hot bereT" "Oil, yes," replied Erik's voice, "th» heat is unendurable!" "But what does this mean? . . The wall ia really getting quite hot! The wall is burning! . . ?' "Ill tell you, Christine, dear: it ie becr.use of the forest next door." "Well, what has that to do with itt The forefrt?" "Why, didn't you see that it was an African forest?" And the monster laughed ro loudly and hideously that we could no longer distinguish Christine's supplicating cries! The Vicomte de Chagny shout- ed and banged against the walls like a madman. I could not restrain him. But w^ heard nothing except the mon- ster's laughter, and the monster him- self can have heard nothing else. And then there was the sound of a body falling on the floor and being dragged along and a door slammed and then nothing, nothing more around ua save the scorching silence of the south in the heart of a tropical forest! â- iiadi. In the Tea Cup H tli« f^U ol» of SAUOi n ^PlEmjn^ H9M la revealed. THe flavor is pure* fresh and fragfrant. Try iU Black, Mixed or Green Blends. sight axis. •* the roller revolved upon its lees, continued to reflect hie agony.' And the branch of the tree on which The walls of this strange room gave I !» had put on end to his own sufler' the patient nothing to lay hold of, be- , ^^ **• ?''â„¢"8^ '? ""*•* ? "^^J- ^Vfj CHAPTER XVII. "barrels! barrels! any TO SELL? BARRE14 before dying, he had seen, for his laet consolation, a thousand men writhing' in his company. (To be continued.) MInard'a sere throat. cause, apart from the solid decorative object, they were simply furnished with mirrors, thick enough to with- stand any onsrlaught of the victim, who was flung into the chamber empty- handed and barefoot. There was no furniture. The ceil» ing was capable of being lit up. An ingenious system of electric heating, which has since been imiUted, allowed \ ^, ^^ ^,^ ,,111. The customer waa the temperature of the walls and room ! to be increased at will. Liniment for « â€" In Safe Keeping. A tailor called on one of bis custom- (The Persian's Narrative Continued.) | I am giving these details of a per- fectly natural invention, producing, The Phantom of the Opera BY GASTON LEROUX I have said that the room in which M. le Vicomte de Chagny and I were imprisoned was a regular hexagon, lined entirely witli mirrors. Plenty of these rooms have Iwen seen since, mainly at exhibitions: they are called "palaces of illusions," or some such ' name. But the invention l)eIoiig8 en- , „ , , . o, tirely to Erik, who built the first room! Shall I turn the scorpion? . • â-  • |of this kind under my eyes at the time And now, crack! Here it is in the Ut^^^f the rosy hours of Mazendeian. A tie leather bag. . . What does it say? i decorative object, such as a column, ' 'I am the little bag of life and death!' j for instance, was placed in one of the "And now, crack! It is in Car- 'corners and immediately produced a lotta's throat, in Carlotta's golden hall of a thousand columns; for,' throat, as I live! What does it say? thanks to the mirrors, the real room It says, 'It's I, Mr. Toad, it's I sing- ! I feel without jjlarm â€" co-ack â€" its melody en wind me â€" co-ack!' with a few painted branches, the sup ernatural illusion of an ei^uatorial forest blazing under the tropical sun, so that no one may doubt the present balance of my brain or feel entitled to say that I am mad or lying or that > I take him for a fool. | I now return to the facts where 1 1 left them. When the ceiling lit up and , the forest became visible around us, j the viscount's stupefaction was im' In bed. , "You've brought your account, have' you?" he asked. "Yea, sir; I want some money." "Open my writing desk," said the' customer. "You see that drawer?" The tailor opened one. expecting to find It full of cash. "No â€" not that one â€" the other!" The tailor opened Ufe second, which, like the flrst, was empty. He opened another. "What do you eee there?" as'ked tbe mense. That Impenetrable forest, with I debtor. CHAl'TKR XVI. THE TORT I RES BEGIN. (The Persian's Narranve Continued.) The voice repeated angrily: "What l-Hvc you don? with my bag? So it was to take my bag that you asked me to release jou !" We heard hurried steps, Christine running buck to the l/ouis-Phi'.Iipe room, as though to seek Fhelt»r on the other sidj of Mir wall. "Wliat lire you running away for?" asked the furious voice, which had followed her. "Give me back my bag, will you. Don't jou know that it is the bag of life and death?" "Listen to me, Erik," sighed the girl. "As it is settled that we are to five together . . . what difference can it make to you?" "You know there are only two keys in it," said the monster. "What do you want t« do?" "I want tj Idok at this room which I have never .veeii and which you have always kept from m». . . . It'.s wu- man's curiorily!" she said, in a tone which she tried to render playful. H,it Ih" t rick was loo childish for Erik to be taken in by it. "1 con't .ik-j curious women," he retorted, "and you had better remem- ber the story of Blue-Beard and be careful. . . . Conn-, Kive me back my bag. . . Give me back my bag! . . . I/pHve the kpy alone, will you, you in- quisitive little thing?" mg! with . . . And now, crack! It is on a chair in the ghost's box and it says, 'Mad- ame Carlotta's singing to-night will bring the chandelier down!' And now, crack! Aha! Where is Erik's voice now? Li.sten, Christine, darling! Lis- ten! It is behind the door of the tor- ture-chamber! And what do I say? 1 say, 'Woo to them that have a nose, a real nose, and come to look around the torture-chaml>er! Aha, aha, aha!'" Oh, the ventriloquist's terrible voice. I It was everywhere, everywhere. It ;was multiplied by six hexagonal I rooms, each of which, in its turn, was multiplied indefinitely. But the little I sultana soon tired of this infantile 11- I lusion, whereupon Erik altered his~in- vention into a "torture-chamber." For the architectural motive placed in one corner, he substituted an iron tree. This tree, with its painted leaves, wtis its innumerable trunks and branches, [ threw him into a terrible state of con- sternation. He passed his hands over his forehead, as though to drive away a dream; his eyes blinked; and for a moment, he forgot to listen. I liave already said that the sight of the forest did not surprise me at all; and therefore I listened for the two of us to what was happening next door. I^astly, my attention was espe- cially attracted, not so much to the 'Papersâ€" lots of them," said the caller. "Ah, yee â€" that's right! They're bHIe. Put yours in with them. Good, bye!" , , . , ^ ^ ... , ' j^ scene, as to the mirrors that produced absolutely true to life and was made ;» in.^^^ ...i^..^..^ „r^r.^ k».to.n i.. Thi're is no on.- there, Erik!" Well, it won't take long to find out. ^^ __^ ^ Christine, my love, we need not open ' " g^'J^jij^^Jugh the'iitt'.eTnVisibie wiii- •'"" ''-"•• '" *•" ^"* '•â- * happening in 5„^ through the waUs. It ran around you â€" .- the door to see what the torture-chamber. Wou!d to se-,'? Would you like to sse? here! If there is some one, if is really some one there, you will see the invisible window light up at the 1 ' top, near the ceiling. We ne<>d only I draw th>' h.iu-k curtain and put out; the light in here. There, that's it. . ."[ And that which I feared above alli things bfgan, automatically. We were suddoniy flooded with light! Yes, on our sid^ of the wall everything seemed ' ; aglow. The Vicomte de Chagny was so much taken aback that he stagger- ed. .And the angry voice roared: ! "I lold you there was .some one" Do you see the window now? lighted window, right up there? man l>ehind the wall can't see it! ; you shall go up the folding steps: is what they are there for! . . . have often asked me t/i tell you; like I }/°°^ j ing to us th^^fo though to us, between us. Erik was there, speak- ! We made a movement as ourselves upon him. fling of iron so as to resist all the atta(;ks I of the "patient" who was locked into the torture-chamber. We shall see how the scene thus obtained was twice altered instantaneously into two suc- cessive other scenes, by means of the automatic rotation of the drume or rollers in the corners. These were di- vided into three sections, fitting into a decorative scheme that came into Mlnard's Liniment relieves headache. it. Iliese mirrors were broken in parts. Yes, they were marked and scratched; they had been "starred," in spite of their solidity; and this proved to me that the torture-chamber in which we now were had already pcrved a purpose. Yes, some wretch, whose feet were not bare like those of the victims of the rosy hours of Mazendaran bad cer- tainly fallen into this "mortal illu- sion'' and, mad with rage, had kicked against thoee mirrors which, neverthe- CrawMil Gioond i IhcirlMth , •T«B thicknttss thraugbouldia IcMth oi Uia H . taKingbindins Inthekerl impouible. CreacantGrinil- ing i* an eccliuhra (eaturajlMali Caaala Saw Ca. laao DUNOAa aT. «v. VANCOUVCa MONTaEAL TOnoN â-  T. JOHN, N.a The The But that! Youi and 1 now you know! . . . They are there. 'to give a peep into the torture-cham- |brr . . . you inquisitive little thin^!"' I "What tortures? . . . Who is l>eingl itortured? . . . Erik, Erik, say you are| only trying to frifihfen me! . . . Say i it, if you love me, Erik! . . . There i'.re no tortures, .ire there?" I "Co and look at the little window, !dear!" ! I do not know if the viscount heard i the :nvooning voice, for he was too And he chuckled, while Christine much occupied by the astounding spec- jtave a cry of pain. Krik had evident- .tacle that now appeared l)eforc his dis- I> recovered the bag from her. At that moment, the vi.scount could not help ultfring an exclamation of impotent rage. "Why, what's that?" said the mon- ster. "Did you hear. Christine?" "No, no," replied the poor girl. "I heard nothinir." "I thought I heard a cry." "A cry I .\rf you going mad, Erik? Whom (Id jii'i I'xpect to give a cry, in this houw? ... 1 cried out iMv.-ause you hurt me I I heard nothing." "I (ion't like the way you .â- â- â- aid that! . . . . You're trembling You're jnoOne there excited. . . . You're lying! ..... there . . ouito That was n cry, there was a cry! . . . There is some one in the torture- chamber! . , Ah, I understand now!" traded gaze, We heard the steps being dragged against the wall. "Up with you! . . . No! . . . No, I will go up myself, dear!" At that moment, we distinctly heard these words above our heads: "There is no one there, dear!" " "No one? . . Are you sure there is no one?" "Why, of course not . . no one!" "Well, that's nil right! . . . What's the matter, Christine? You're not go- ing to faint, are you . . as there is i . . Here . . come down ; Pull yourself together I Carry WRKLEYS ^ Keeps teeth clean, breach sweet, appetite keen and iSjUt I ... as there is no one there ! . . But j I how do you like the lnnd.'(ca|K«?"_ i 1 "f)h, very much!" I "There' that's better! . . . You're â-  better now, are you not? . . That's all right, you're l>etter! . . No excite- ment! . . . .And what a funny house. Isn't it, with lands<-a|>es like that in it?" "But tell me, Erik, why did you call that room the torture-chamber?" "Oh, it's very simple. First of all, what did you .see?" "I nfiw a forest." "Ami what is in a forest?" "Trees." ".And what is in a tree?" •Birds." "Did you .se*" any Mrds?" " "No, I did not see any bircjs?" •Well, what did you see? Think! You saw branches! And what are iIm' branches?" asked the terrible voice. "There's a gibbet! That Is why I call my wood the torture-cham- ber! . . . You see, it's all a joke. I never express mynelf like other people. But I am very tire<i of it! . . I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture-rh»ml)er in my hou.«e and of living like a mountebank, in a house with a false bottom! . . . Pm tired of it! I want to have a nice, quiet flat, with ordinary door.i and windows and » wife Inside it, like anybody else! A wife whom I could love and fake out on Sundays and keep amused on week- days. . . . Te!I me you love me! . . . 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