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Good evening. Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight, I'll be reading Chapter 6 and 7 of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LaRue.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 6 of Visit to Box 5

We left Mr. Firm in Richard and Mr. Amand on Charmin at the moment when they were deciding

to look into that little matter of Box 5.

Leaving behind them the broad staircase which leads from the lobby outside the manager's office

to the stage and its dependencies, they crossed the stage, went out by the subscriber's door

and entered the house to the first little passage on the left.

Then they made their way through the front rows of stalls and looked at Box 5 on the grand tier.

They could not see it well because it was half in darkness and because great covers were

flung over the red velvet of the ledges of all the boxes.

They were almost alone in the huge gloomy house and a great silence surrounded them.

It was the time when most of the stage hands go out for a drink.

The staff had left the boards for the moment, leaving the scene half set.

A few rays of light, a one sinister light that seemed to have been stolen from an expiring

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