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Men
and
women
in
costume
,
here
a
glittering
princess
,
there
a
high
-
booted
cavalier
,
flashing
jewelry
and
flashing
wit
every
where
,
dancing
,
liquor
flowing
freely
,
first
wine
and
then
cocktails
and
then
perhaps
boilermakers
the
level
of
conver
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sation
going
up
and
up
and
up
until
the
jolly
cry
rang
out
from
the
bandmaster
s
podium
,
the
cry
of
"
Unmask
!
Unmask
!
"
(
And
the
Red
Death
held
sway
)
He
found
himself
standing
on
the
other
side
of
the
dining
room
,
just
outside
the
stylized
batwing
doors
of
the
Colorado
Lounge
where
,
on
that
night
in
1945
,
all
the
booze
would
have
been
free
.
(
Belly
up
to
the
bar
,
pardner
,
the
drinks
re
on
the
house
.
)
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He
stepped
through
the
batwings
and
into
the
deep
,
folded
shadows
of
the
bar
.
And
a
strange
thing
occurred
.
He
had
been
in
here
before
,
once
to
check
the
inventory
sheet
Ullman
had
left
,
and
he
knew
the
place
had
been
stripped
clean
.
The
shelves
were
totally
bare
.
But
now
,
lit
only
murkily
by
the
light
which
filtered
through
from
the
dining
room
(
which
was
itself
only
dimly
lit
because
of
the
snow
blocking
the
windows
)
,
he
thought
he
saw
ranks
and
ranks
of
bottles
twinkling
mutedly
behind
the
bar
,
and
syphons
,
and
even
beer
dripping
from
the
spigots
of
all
three
highly
polished
taps
.
Yes
,
he
could
even
smell
beer
,
that
damp
and
fermented
and
yeasty
odor
,
no
different
from
the
smell
that
had
hung
finely
misted
around
his
father
s
face
every
night
when
he
came
home
from
work
.
Eyes
widening
,
he
fumbled
for
the
wall
switch
,
and
the
low
,
intimate
barlighting
came
on
,
circles
of
twenty
-
watt
bulbs
emplanted
on
the
tops
of
the
three
wagon
-
wheel
chandeliers
overhead
.
The
shelves
were
all
empty
.
They
had
not
even
as
yet
gathered
a
good
coat
of
dust
.
The
beer
taps
were
dry
,
as
were
the
chrome
drains
beneath
them
.
To
his
left
and
right
,
the
velvet
-
upholstered
booths
stood
like
men
with
high
backs
,
each
one
designed
to
give
a
maximum
of
privacy
to
the
couple
inside
.
Straight
ahead
,
across
the
red
-
carpeted
floor
,
forty
barstools
stood
around
the
horseshoe
-
shaped
bar
.
Each
stool
was
upholstered
in
leather
and
embossed
with
cattle
brands
-
Circle
H
,
Bar
D
Bar
(
that
was
fitting
)
,
Rocking
W
,
Lazy
B
.