Note 1
Chapter I · Is it the Ghost?
I have the anecdote, which is quite authentic, from M. Pedro Gailhard himself, the late manager of the Opera.
…ddenly reappeared on the stage, pale, scared, trembling, with his eyes starting out of his head, and practically fainted in the arms of the proud mother of little Jammes.[1] And why? Because he had seen coming toward him, AT THE LEVEL OF HIS HEAD, BUT WITHOUT A BODY ATTACHED TO IT, A HEAD OF FIRE! And, as I said, a fireman is not afraid of fire.
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