"as for o.g., some of whose curious tricks i have related in the first part of my memoirs, i will only say that he redeemed by one spontaneous fine action all the worry which he had caused my dear friend and partner and, i am bound to say, myself.he felt, no doubt, that there are limits to a joke, especially when it is so expensive and when the commissary of police has been informed, for, at the moment when we had made an appointment in our office with m.mifroid to tell him the whole story, a few days after the disappearance of christine daae, we found, on richard's table, a large envelope, inscribed, in red ink, "with o.g.'s compliments." it contained the large sum of money which he had succeeded in playfully extracting, for the time being, from the treasury.richard was at once of the opinion that we must be content with that and drop the business.i agreed with richard.
all's well that ends well.what do you say, o.g.?"of course, moncharmin, especially after the money had been restored, continued to believe that he had, for a short while, been the butt of richard's sense of humor, whereas richard, on his side, was convinced that moncharmin had amused himself by inventing the whole of the affair of the opera ghost, in order to revenge himself for a few jokes.
i asked the persian to tell me by what trick the ghost had taken twenty-thousand francs from richard's pocket in spite of the safety-pin.he replied that he had not gone into this little detail, but that, if i myself cared to make an investigation on the spot, i should certainly find the solution to the riddle in the managers'