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(The whole is spoken)

(GIRY is hurrying across. RAOUL appears and calls her)

Giry, wait. . .

Please, - I know no more than
else.

not true.

(uneasily)

Please, Monsieur, don't ask, there have been too many . . .

(ironical)

Accidents?! (She moves off again. He her) (desperately) Please, Madame Giry, for all our sakes . . .

GIRY (She has glanced nervously about her and suddenly deciding to him, cuts in)

Very well. It was years ago. was a traveling
fair in the city. The gypsies. I was very young, studying to be a ballerina. One of living in the dormitories of the opera house.
(There is a flashback of when Madame Giry is very young and at the traveling fair)

(The circus)

(Young Madame school is taking a fieldtrip to a traveling circus)

Scary woman: See the wonder the East!

Cruel man. Come. Come. inside. Come and see The Devil's Child.

(They all see Young Erik with a sack over his head, chained in a cage of straw. He is making a stuffed monkey playing the cymbals like the one on the box)

(All the children except for Madame Giry laugh at Young Erik)

man. (Beats Erik with a stick) You damn demon! (Beats) Villain! (Beats) Ne'er do-well! (Beats) Libertine! (Beats) Dangerous! (Beats) Hideous! (Beats) Monstrous! (Beats) BEAST! (Beats very hard)
(Young Erik groans in on the straw. Young Madame Giry looks sadly at Young Erik)
Cruel Man. Behold, Mesdames and messieurs, the Devil's Child! (He takes the off Young Erik's head, pulls the hair)

(All the kids except Young Giry laugh at him)

(Erik slowly puts the back on. When all the children break free, the cruel man begins to count his money coins)

(Young Erik suddenly breaks free, grabs a rope and the chains he was chained too and the cruel man)

(Erik his stuff monkey and takes Young Madame Giry's hand and they run out of the traveling circus)

Murder!

Policeman: way?!
Man: That way! way!
He's getting away!

(Young Madame Giry and Young Erik run all the way to a window of the House)

(Young Madame Giry puts in the window)

(The House)
(Narrating the story) I hid him from the world, and its cruelties.
(Young Madame enters from another part of the room, Young Erik runs to her and she hides him)

Giry. If you stay in here, you are safe.

Young Erik. you so much, young lady.

(It goes back to the times)

GIRY: He has known nothing else of life since then except this house. I called him Erik. It was his playground and now his artistic domain, he's a genius. He's an architect and designer, he'scomposer and amagician. A genius, Monsieur!

But clearly, Madame Giry, genius has turned to madness.