Jake Randolph in "The Naked Beat" Pt. 15

I didn't like what I was seeing. Too much evidence of heroin use was starting to surface at my café. I dismissed it at first, but it looked like I was going to have to give the matter further thought.

The first time I noticed anything was about two months prior to the Downbeats' performance. A few guys and gals started coming to the café claiming to have come out from Greenwich Village, but they were too tan to have been native New Yorkers. They had bloodshot eyes, vacant stares, and needle marks that they tried very hard to hide...