Once auction invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, Sold American!
The auction lie completely silent, no one talked or even sneezed. 
mnli hypothesis: The auction lie completely silent, no one talked or even sneezed.  premise: Once auction invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, Sold American!