All 4 Uses of

contrived
in
The Phantom of the Opera

She contrived to cancel her contract.†
Chpt 11 *

contrived = unnatural or arranged

I was at the performance and no one in the world but Erik could contrive an abduction like that!†
Chpt 19

contrive = arrange

Later, he learned that Erik had found, all prepared for him, a secret passage, long known to himself alone and contrived at the time of the Paris Commune to allow the jailers to convey their prisoners straight to the dungeons that had been constructed for them in the cellars; for the Federates had occupied the opera-house immediately after the eighteenth of March and had made a starting-place right at the top for their Mongolfier balloons, which carried their incendiary proclamations to the departments, and a state prison right at the bottom.†
Chpt 20

contrived = unnatural or arranged

Erik had very original ideas on the subject of architecture and thought out a palace much as a conjuror contrives a trick-casket.†
Chpt Epil.

contrives = arranges -- especially in an unnatural way

Definition:

unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)

or more rarely:

arranged (that something should happen)