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roll of bills to live on for awhile, and kissed my cheek.
After they left, I wandered the streets in the French Quarter aimlessly. I didn’t have any ideas about getting back to Joe. Suddenly, everything felt so hopeless I sat down on a park bench and cried.
I had walked to the river front and didn’t realize it until I heard jazz coming from a riverboat. When it pulled up to the dock, I saw a sign aboard advertising for a female singer. I got on board and asked a big black m an, who was sitting on the deck, who I would see about the job.
My jaw fell open when he said I would need to talk to Joe. “He be at one of the tables playing poker,” he said as he waved his hand toward a red door.
When I opened the door, I never really expected to see my Joe but there he was, sitting at a table , covered in red felt , with three other men.
He was dressed in a suit that fit like a glove but, instead of a tie and dress shirt, he was wearing what looked like a frilly blouse. There were ruffles down the front and at the cuffs.
I remember watching a TV show, in the first life I could remember, named Yancy Derringer. He was dressed just like that and had his hair combed straight back.
The other three were dressed in the same fashion. They looked like true gentlemen of that time. They looked up in surprise when I opened the door and I could tell that Joe didn’t recognize me.
Although he looked just like Joe, he talked like a native New Orleans gentleman. “Can I hep ya , dahlin ?” he said and I replied, “I’m here about the singing job.”
“Can ya sing?”
“Sure,” I said and decided to emulate Billy Holiday.
He stood and bowed to the other gentlemen and held out his hand, palm up, “After you.”
I followed him into a narrow hallway and up a narrow set of stairs and into a large room that looked like a combination restaurant/nightclub. There was a piano in the corner and sitting at the piano playing, “ Ain’t Misbehavin ,” was Irene.
She quit playing when she saw us and Joe led me over to her. It turned out that Joe had recognized me after all. “She came,” he said to Irene.
She got up off her seat and hugged me and started crying, “Thank God,” she said.
I hugged both of them and then said, “How did this happen, Irene?”
“Ashley, just wait until I tell you everything I’ve learned. Joe, get that nice bartender to bring us some of that excellent wine. Come on, you two. Let’s sit over here at one of these tables.”
CHAPTER 18
Irene took a long swallow of the wine and smacked her lips, “I almost don’t know where to begin. The day you disappeared, Ashley, the sky turned pitch black and the cave, or jellyfish or whatever it was that we had been traveling in, uprooted and floated away.
“There were about half of us in it at the time and it didn’t wait for anyone else. Josie pitched a really good temper tantrum. She screamed at the cave thing to take her back so she could get you two.
“We didn’t know it at the time but you, Ashley, had slipped into a parallel universe. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Joe told me later after we connected that he had gone out to the cave and it wasn’t there.
“Anyway, Josie ranted and raved for days until the cave thing got tired of hearing her, I guess and came back. She fo u nd Joe in the bar where you had disappeared and he and his band were playing there.
“The cave thing took off again after it dropped Josie off. You wouldn’t believe the places I ’ve seen since then, Ashley. But it would take too long to go into all that.”
She took a deep breath and sipped her wine while I waited. She got tears in her eyes and then continued, “I don’t know how to explain this part but, after traveling for about 20 years, and experiencing many things, I had reached a place where I could see a much bigger picture.
“I don’t know how else to explain it but I saw you wake up in
After they left, I wandered the streets in the French Quarter aimlessly. I didn’t have any ideas about getting back to Joe. Suddenly, everything felt so hopeless I sat down on a park bench and cried.
I had walked to the river front and didn’t realize it until I heard jazz coming from a riverboat. When it pulled up to the dock, I saw a sign aboard advertising for a female singer. I got on board and asked a big black m an, who was sitting on the deck, who I would see about the job.
My jaw fell open when he said I would need to talk to Joe. “He be at one of the tables playing poker,” he said as he waved his hand toward a red door.
When I opened the door, I never really expected to see my Joe but there he was, sitting at a table , covered in red felt , with three other men.
He was dressed in a suit that fit like a glove but, instead of a tie and dress shirt, he was wearing what looked like a frilly blouse. There were ruffles down the front and at the cuffs.
I remember watching a TV show, in the first life I could remember, named Yancy Derringer. He was dressed just like that and had his hair combed straight back.
The other three were dressed in the same fashion. They looked like true gentlemen of that time. They looked up in surprise when I opened the door and I could tell that Joe didn’t recognize me.
Although he looked just like Joe, he talked like a native New Orleans gentleman. “Can I hep ya , dahlin ?” he said and I replied, “I’m here about the singing job.”
“Can ya sing?”
“Sure,” I said and decided to emulate Billy Holiday.
He stood and bowed to the other gentlemen and held out his hand, palm up, “After you.”
I followed him into a narrow hallway and up a narrow set of stairs and into a large room that looked like a combination restaurant/nightclub. There was a piano in the corner and sitting at the piano playing, “ Ain’t Misbehavin ,” was Irene.
She quit playing when she saw us and Joe led me over to her. It turned out that Joe had recognized me after all. “She came,” he said to Irene.
She got up off her seat and hugged me and started crying, “Thank God,” she said.
I hugged both of them and then said, “How did this happen, Irene?”
“Ashley, just wait until I tell you everything I’ve learned. Joe, get that nice bartender to bring us some of that excellent wine. Come on, you two. Let’s sit over here at one of these tables.”
CHAPTER 18
Irene took a long swallow of the wine and smacked her lips, “I almost don’t know where to begin. The day you disappeared, Ashley, the sky turned pitch black and the cave, or jellyfish or whatever it was that we had been traveling in, uprooted and floated away.
“There were about half of us in it at the time and it didn’t wait for anyone else. Josie pitched a really good temper tantrum. She screamed at the cave thing to take her back so she could get you two.
“We didn’t know it at the time but you, Ashley, had slipped into a parallel universe. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Joe told me later after we connected that he had gone out to the cave and it wasn’t there.
“Anyway, Josie ranted and raved for days until the cave thing got tired of hearing her, I guess and came back. She fo u nd Joe in the bar where you had disappeared and he and his band were playing there.
“The cave thing took off again after it dropped Josie off. You wouldn’t believe the places I ’ve seen since then, Ashley. But it would take too long to go into all that.”
She took a deep breath and sipped her wine while I waited. She got tears in her eyes and then continued, “I don’t know how to explain this part but, after traveling for about 20 years, and experiencing many things, I had reached a place where I could see a much bigger picture.
“I don’t know how else to explain it but I saw you wake up in
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