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AUCTIONEER
Sold!
Your number, sir? Thank you.

Lot 665 ladies and gentlemen.
a papier-mache musicAL box
in the shape of a barrel organ.
Attached, the figure of monkey
in Persian robes playing the cymbals.
This item discovered in the vaults
of the theater, still in working order
ladies and gentleman
Showing here

May I commence at fifteen francs? Fifteen, thank you.
Yes, twenty from you, sir, thank you very much.
Madame Giry, twenty-five, thank you, Madame.
Twenty-five I am bid. Do I hear thirty?
Thirty and Thirty-five?
Selling at thirty francs, then.
Thirty once, thirty twice.
Sold, for thirty francs to the Vicomte de Changy.
Thank you, sir.

RAUOL
A collector's piece indeed . . .
every detail exactly as she said . . .
Will you still play when all the rest of us are dead . . .?

AUCTIONEER
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're told, ladies and gentlemen,
that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster.
Our workshops have repaired it and wired
parts of it for the new electric light
Perhaps we can frighten away the ghost of so many years ago
with a little illumination.
Gentlemen?