| Show r p Telegram e Serial eath Bath Holds Hods Downbeat j By William Irish Rea Read a new mystery serial complete I every week in The Telegram I dory dorr eo tar far Dp Dapper r Mar fx lone Jones band star Ur- Ura f tro M tro of ot an American Barcelona Spain night nighta fifer to 10 a 1 smut smart rt I Jt r i te J quietly In hi his s hotel the by hy byll pol-II pol a detective from the ll e ma e a Ii Gaited SUte statu States t fin na n a charge of ot f murder home Max fu fea fears be bf wW be bel tk de back there He lie lathed l If bt 11 for lor one last IMI with hi his be be- band and when then he throws an ex ex- deuce dente with Hh the dice dIet Fre h. h III roan Trees to 10 escort scort him lao to the club sad ind 4 sot not ot let Itt other e know JUr lal l I. I under a arrest t Jones JonII Introduce Freshman to toL toMi band lIand bandow and other friend Mi L o the r fO with the story story r C Now ow ow 10 f oo 00 I t CHAPTER m ill mERE ERE was a round Around of introductory introductory intro- intro I handshaking in the vr outside room sponsored by Jones lones Meet my friend Mr Fresh Fresh- man Hes He's sticking with me from tOW now on Come on lets let's travel Its It's club time There was a concerted scramble k for or r the stray cigarettes the half- half bottles of wine and even the she unfinished portions of food on he be part of the female detach- detach almost before the door had Oed hosed behind their recent hosts tJ fJones nes and his escort stood very iI Two waiters came over carrying carry ing a table between them The Thc They shoved it up against the p pit t of the bandstand There was nothing g but dancing space around it I It t got s-ot the full benefit of the copper copper- colored spot sighted at the dance floor loor and stand Then they dragged over a couple couPie of chairs Freshman vaulted down do over the low edge of the stand instead of going down the ladder at the side and coming around front from again He sat down do on one of the two chairs A WAITER tried to put a cloth down but Freshman wouldn't let him Leave it plain he grumbled Cloths can be jerked off tangling tangling tang tang- ling ing you up The waiter tried to put down do a glass ashtray and he wouldn't let hIm lim do that either After an ashtray ashtray ashtray ash ash- tray fills fUIs its contents can be lose lose se together the others were in ont of them What time do you open asked We dont don't go on till eleven A ingo band warms it up until ten They trooped into the shaky lift id d emerged on to the crowded laza Ius de Then they 11 Il piled into a cab and drove down w fie Rambla Where it narrows a sign neon-sign flashed on and ff Ct ft proclaiming Club New York nd underneath in no l less ss fiery El EI Hot Jazz Maxwell Jones Rey Reye e i los Freshman looked at the maeso maes- maes 0 o curiously Docs Does it do what whatley ley say to you to see your own ime me in lights like that Im I'm just dick I wouldn't know your pay check your ead and butter and wine They went in cased instruments hand Single file except at the id td then Jones and Freshman de by side A long-drawn long shuddering sigh ecstasy went up all over the am em Max Youre doing all right for yourl your- your l 1 lf Freshman remarked No uNo onder you wanted one last Yeah Yeah On one side of the theater ater rater a bum On the other a aing al l ing t 1 THEY HEY y went into the dressing om and sat around smoking stood against the door knock hit him in the kidneys I id ida a voice said through him with curiously ventriloquist-like ventriloquist ef- ef I ct Listo para pars el senor Maxi They filed out Again Jones and were last side by side How are you going to fix lis the detective asked You want to come right up tito nto the stand with us No thanks Just push a table up against it front and cen- cen sr re r Ill I'll be sitting right under you rifle hue you lead And when you nock neck off you come and sit withIe with it Ie Then he added I never take it nt ut of ot my pocket you know I hoot oot right through it He showed him two small lined amed patches where there had hadeen hadeen hadeen een round holes made in the eave reave They passed the tango band gog goig go- go IE ig off Looks without any lost five Jve we were exchanged by the rival They filed Wed up a short light of slatted steps and came camei camet i t full view ew of the night nis-ht club The fight Ight bothered Freshman's eyes or r a second or two I Jones was bending over the tand Land talking to the headwaiter he e latter nodded glanced at shrugged thrown in your eyes blinding you Does the senor want anything at all 7 the waiter demanded Just keep back and give me lots of room the detective saidI saidI said I uI want to watch the music That was the right word too he wanted to see aee not hear Jones tapped his stick twice spread his arms Number 15 he directed A rocket-bomb rocket went off and people were dancing all around on three sides of Freshman He was looking steadily at Jones There wasn't much to see from the back like that They played three numbers through without a break Then the music stopped and the stillness stillness still still- n ness ss was deafening Take five Jones said to his musicians He came down the way Freshman had vaulting over the edge and sat down at the table with him Howd it sound Bound 7 he asked Screwy the detective said It hits the ceiling first then comes straight down from there because youre you're under the edge of the stand And that's where Im I'm staying Freshman let him know Jones' Jones eyes kept roving over the three sides of the room behind Freshman going from table to table you looking for a raiding party Freshman asked No Jones smiled bleakly I got this He took the message that had come w with th the lapel- lapel flower out of his pocket and showed it to him Were going to be shipmates for the next 10 days so you may as well know about it T HE detective e read it didn't say anything She keeps teasing me I know she's in the room right now somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where over there looking straight at me Which one is she His men were starting to straggle Ie out onto the stand again He stood up unhurriedly Well Vell happy notes half-notes he said Be wi with th you The musical thunderstorm broke again as They seemed to play sets of three each time and then rest Jones came back again He began began began be be- gan talking suddenly about the theother theother theother other thing I didn't commit murder he blurted I 1 want you to know that the maestro insisted I 1 dont don't have to know Freshman Freshman Freshman Fresh Fresh- man parried Im not a priest Im I'm wearing a tie tier Jones brought his fist fiat down on the table I have to tell somebody somebody somebody some some- body about It Its It's been shut up in me too long And this is my night for spilling it Copyright William Irish |
