You don't say. Where would you two perform
your music?" Uncle Linden asked. "On television?" Heyden lit up and leaned forward.
"No, not right away. I'd love us to go on the road. There are hundreds of small places that would want an inexpensive but talented act like ours. We'd play for restaurants, nice bars. whatever. I know we can make a go of it and see a lot of this country at the same time. We would get all the experience we need. Mostly, we would get away for a while, a long while,"
he concluded.
"So you think you're that good. eh? People
would listen to you and hire you on the spot?" "Yes. I know we are that good." Heyden said
with steely determination in his eyes as he looked at
me. "My father's a musician. It's in my blood. I've
been around it long enough and heard and seen
singers and musicians who aren't half as good as we
are.
"Now, there's a confident young man." Uncle
Linden told me.
I smiled. "That he is. Uncle Linden."
"You should go for it. then. Take a chance. I
never did. and I sit here and regret it. All I can do now
is stare out this window and wonder." Uncle Linden
said. "Don't make my mistakes. Hannah. Seize the
opportunity, if you have it."
"We don't have it. Uncle Linden. We have
dreams."
"Well, that's a start." He thought a moment.
"Why don't you have it?" he asked Heyden.
"It takes money, lots of money. I had this idea
for us: We'd rent a motor home, you know, and we'd
go on the road. That way we would always have a
place to stay that wasn't some rat heap."
"Very interesting and very sensible," Uncle
Linden said. nodding. "I've never really been in one of
those, of course, but I imagine they can be