The valuable brass ornament made for Diane de Poitiers (the one that Mandible Winkworth bought at Zangwill's Bazaar then donated to Lanzarotte's church Jumble Sale last year) has re-appeared. It was bought by Stella Sopling (tall companion of the ascetic Telemachus) who is showing it to Huxtable, as they sip Ahmed's Tantric Iftar at Moudi's Emporium. Ahmed thinks it looks familiar. When Huxtable picks it up to examine it for inscriptions, he accidentally drops it. The parchment roll slips out, but no-one notices, and later it is swept up by Yamima who now works full time at Moudi’s. She picks it up. It is a Sotherby’s authentication that the ornament is worth £45000. She slips the parchment into her pocket.
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