The Opera Ghost and the Desert Trial
In a turbulent tale from the opera house, Christine Dane draws Raoul into Erik the Ghost’s deadly web. A torture chamber beneath the stage yields mirrors and an iron tree, a perilous chase ends in a hidden cellar where gunpowder barrels await the next grim revelation.
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Dene
Poligny
Christina Dane
Count de Chagny
Raoul
Christina
Christine Dane
Moneharmin
Richard
Faust
Carlotta
Christine
Raou
Erik
Bromfacs
Philippe
Moncharmin
Hivik
The Monster Threat Looms Over Christine Dane
The discovery triggers alarm as the monster warns Christine Dane that eleven o clock tonight will seal the fate of many. He vows an opera house funeral if she accepts or declines. The group, fearing destruction, moves through darkness toward the room of mirrors.
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M. de Chagny
Erik
Christine Dane
Paris Grand Opera
Christine Dana
Christine
Room of Mirrors
Tobe
Clever Women Spies Use Charm in Espionage Tricks
The article argues that women use beauty and charm to obtain confidential military plans and fortifications from officials. It cites cases of governesses and socialites in Europe and America who compromised naval secrets, including lost dreadnought plans and armament details, highlighting historical espionage by women.
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New York
France
Berlin
Paris
Admiralty
London
Age of the Machine Soldier Imagined in French Press
A Danish engineer allegedly invented a ground buried cylinder that rises to fire 400 shots at 2000 yards. Calculations claim 3,200,000 such machines could block 100 miles of frontier at low cost, creating an automatic army via electric buttons. The piece ends by asking if autonomous soldiers are near.
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Vesoul
Belford
Sedan
Office Spy Editor’s Exchange Clerk Sparks Paper Chaos
George Brown’s office boy, a hot tempered redhead, scattered a huge bundle of newspapers in the post office corridor. An official called Brown to report the chaos and the boy exclaimed he gets too many papers and does not read half of them.
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George Brown
The
Postoffice
Brown
Popular
Magazine
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Gaston Leroux
MG Hettner
Pyright Tor
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Christing
Maas
M. le Vicomte
Equator
Hick
Wick
Hrik
Frik
Punjab
Dlano
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