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The Master of Silence

CHAPTER IX
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The performance must begin in four hours or be postponed.

It is found that the costumes prepared for the part will fit the young lady.

They consent to try her, the company is hastily summoned together for rehearsal, and the curtain falls on the first act.

The audience waited impatiently for it to rise again and show what fortune might have in store for the carpenter's daughter, but of all that audience I was probably the most impatient.
"There is the Count," whispered Rayel, directing my attention to the opposite box.

The diabolical little Frenchman was there, sure enough, sitting next to the rail, and sweeping the audience with his opera-glasses.
Soon the curtain was rung up and the rehearsal began which was to test the powers of the venturesome young lady.


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