Note 5
Chapter XX · In the Cellars of the Opera
These two pairs of boots, which were placed, according to the Persian's papers, just between the set piece and the scene from the ROI DE LAHORE, on the spot where Joseph Buquet was found hanging, were never discovered. They must have been taken by some stage-carpenter or "door-shutter."
"Put them outside the wall," he said. "We shall find them there when we leave."[5]
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