Chapter 20: XIX

XIX The Viscount and the Persian Raoul now remembered that his brother had once shown him that mysterious person, of whom nothing was known except that he was a Persian and that he lived in a little old-fashioned flat in the Rue de Rivoli. The man with the ebony skin, the eyes of jade and the astrakhan cap bent over Raoul. “I hope, M. de Chagny,” he said, “that you have not betrayed Erik’s secret?” “And why should I hesitate to betray that monster, sir?” Raoul rejoined haughtily,…