Sold! Your number, sir? Thank you.
Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the
Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told, ladies and
gentleman, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our
workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric
light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when reassembled. Perhaps we
may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination,
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