Playing Hearts by W.R. Gingell

Author:W.R. Gingell [Gingell, W.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-09T23:00:00+00:00

I didn’t leave entirely unnoticed: Cat Cheshire came with me when I went home. Nowhere in Underland was safe for him to play, he said, and if he couldn’t play he didn’t want to do anything. I told him bluntly that if he didn’t play for money and wouldn’t work for it, he would be doing something whether or not he wanted to– starving.

“That’s why I’m coming with you,” he said. “Jack did try to warn me before it happened. He told me there are places I can earn a good living in your world.”

“You could earn a good living in any world,” I said, as blunt in my praise as I had been in my dissent. Cat Cheshire’s skill on the piano was something Australia hadn’t seen since the 1940s.

I had no one to introduce him to and only a small amount of useful advice, but Cat Cheshire was the sort who tended to land on his feet. He got himself a job playing nights at an old ’40s style club, and the next I heard of him, he was touring the world. He had taken to my world with as much verve and considerably more success than I had taken to his. Forsaking what was behind, he had seized on what was ahead, and it seemed to me that perhaps I would be facing the same decision before too many more years.

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