They Gave Me a Check at Twelfth Night, So I Took Their Mardi Gras novel · Chapter 21 of 32

Chapter 21: Lundi Gras

Gaspard's POV

I took the Eastern Star down the river at five on Lundi Gras morning, with the sun still a thin red line over Algiers.

She was a car carrier, six hundred feet of steel and rust-streaked white.

The captain was a Greek who spoke to me only in numbers.

"Two hundred meters, Pilot."

"Two hundred."

"Current?"

"Four knots. She'll set to starboard at Chalmette."

"You know this bend?"

"I was born in it."

He grunted, and I saw him glance at my face and then pretend not to.

I had not slept.

At Chalmette the ship swung, the stern answered, and I felt her settle into the channel.

Above the levee on the St. Bernard side, a mile off, a long low roof showed through the cypress.

The Knights of Columbus hall.

Tonight a hundred and fifty people would sit at long tables in it, and Clem would stand at the head of the room and say the grace of a krewe that had thrown her out.

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