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The horn blows at midnight in the Casbar Lounge


                                      epub new link 14/2/12 (239 pages/1MB) with thanks to the original sharer

The finger-snapping,toe-tapping ruckus had been going on for over five hours with only a few short breaks.The Witnesses were jamming their way through "The White Cliffs of Dover."Louis lay on the floor,on his back,kicking his feet in the air and blasting his trumpet.Sam crouched above him,blowing everry ounce of breath he had through his saxophone.Back up on the tiny stage,Keely-filling out a white taffeta dress in all the right spots and not a strand of her pageboy-style black hair out of place-stood still,staring impassively out at the audience.She'd seen it all before