The Dark Sleep (08) by P.N. Elrod

Author:P.N. Elrod [Elrod, P.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-12T07:00:00+00:00

“You know what kind of odds are against you for success with a new club?” he asked.

“I’ve been getting a pretty good idea from others in the business.”

“Getting’s not the same as having, and you gotta pardon me if I think you look too young to have much experience for this sort of game.”

I nodded, giving him that point. My apparent youth would probably always work against me. I was getting used to dealing with it. “I know, but it’s my investment to risk, my dream to bring about. Besides, I know enough to hire people who will be experienced.”

“That’s half of it, and I wish you luck.”

“Hey, if I get artists like you coming in regular, the luck’s already there.”

He did enjoy hearing sincere praise. I got the impression he didn’t receive a lot of recognition for his work. Maybe he’d become a fixture in this place, and no one paid him much mind because he was so familiar a sight. That would change if I had anything to do with it.

Time was short; I told Waters I had to leave and would see him tomorrow, then paused long enough at the bar to ask after McCallen. Neither the waiter nor bartender had anything useful to share about him. He came in often, usually had two or three beers along with his friends, all gathering to talk in the back room. The waiter thought they did a lot of speech making. Often when he went to check on them there would be one man reading aloud from some papers.

They seemed to take turns, then argue with each other about whatever they’d heard. The waiter never paid attention to them beyond the fact that they were lousy tippers. It was a sliver more of information than Escott had, and it reinforced Waters’s communist theory. Whether it proved to be useful remained to be seen.

And that was as much as I wanted to put into the McCallen problem for the present. For the rest of the evening I had better things to do.

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