Beau and Rick spent the rest of the day doing the rounds—with LeRoy willingly playing chauffeur—looking for places that might be interested in hiring them. Both of them got lucky, as Rick put it when they got back to the house, and had set up appointments for formal interviews for the morning after they picked up their IDs, credit cards for Beau, and everything else they’d asked for from Reb.
By week’s end, Beau had been hired at a club and Rick had two offers, one from a downtown restaurant catering to tourists, the other from a smaller one frequented by locals. After some debate with himself over money versus feeling comfortable with the job, Rick chose the smaller one.
“The next thing we have to do,” Beau said that evening, “is find a place to live.”
“You know you’re welcome to stay
