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Theta and Me open walls, knocking chairs over Two flappers and their beaus screamed and stumbled drunkenly into the wall of cops A clearly intoxicated un and fired off shots indiscrih the book of poetry in Meh the hole "That was a library book," he said, gasping

"Poet, we’ve gotta scram!"

Memphis ran with Theta around a corner, where he pulled her into a telephone booth She looked up through heavy lashes into Memphis’s handsome face She’d seen plenty of handsome fellas before, but none rote poetry and shared the sauarded against since Roy and Kansas and what had happened there

"You pullto catch her breath

"Trust me," Memphis said He turned the crank on the telephone three tiave a hard push on the back wall, which opened onto a secret passageway

Upstairs in the club, it was chaos as the police stormed the doors The bartendersabout two dozen bottles of good hooch down a chute to their unti the bottles and glasses there down another chute and wiping the evidence aith rags Patrons screa one another over in their panic to get out So, thrilled to be arrested and ents don’t need a drink?" the club er quipped as the cops walked him toward the door In the midst of the hysteria, Henry walked calan to play

"Don’t look at me, officer I’m just the piano player," he said, but the man in blue cuffed him anyway

In the ed and wove her way toward an exit just as a fresh wave of cops barged in She doubled back, passing the di her heart out to the cop arresting her: "These chuet you into the struggle buggy, the next, they’re giving you their typhoid"

Trapped, Evie dove under a table and hid beneath its white cloth, watching She reached up just high enough to grab an open bottle of chaood hooch go to waste, and if she was going down, she was going in style After a feweasily out the door, untouched Or rather, she thought she saw him He moved so quickly she couldn’t be sure She only knew she was angry again She bolted after hi his name, but a second wave of policemen rounded the corner Evie ran back into the club roo low She spied a duling herself in Her long necklace caught on the hook, scattering pearls all over the floor, which tripped an officer heading her way There was no time to mourn the jewels, so she slammed the door shut and hoisted herself toward freedom

"Didn’t I tell you to trust me?" Memphis said He and Theta stood in the dank wine cellar beneath the club A lone worker’s bulb over the door cast diht across the dirt floor and the barrels stored in the deep room