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Joseph Buquet Joseph Buquet is a very popular braggart. He is the chief scene-shifter until found dead, hanging in the third cellar under the stage. Between the time he is found and help is called, Joseph’s body is moved and the robe he hung by disappeared. His death, however, was officially ruled a ‘natural suicide’. '…must have caught Erik one evening working at the stone in the third cellar. He probably tried it in his turn, fell into the torture-chamber and only left it hanged. I can well imagine Erik dragging the body, in order to get rid of it, to the scene from the Roi de Lahore, and hanging it there as an example, or to increase the superstitious terror that was to help him in guarding the approaches to his lair! Then, upon reflection, Erik went back to fetch the Punjab lasso, which is very curiously made out of catgut, and which might have set an examining magistrate thinking.' -The Persian's theory concerning Joseph Buque's demise |
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