Nothing could be worse than he was
doing. Absolutely no business paid less than eight dollars per week,
unless it were his own itself which had paid him seven dollars. It was a
summer month. A theatre was empty. A dramatic agent had agreed to get up
a company and run the place a week. It would require only twenty-five
dollars from the young man. He would then be a sharer in the profits,
would be given a minor part in the cast of characters, and would
thereafter be secured
AN ENGAGEMENT WITH JOHN M'CULLOUGH
or John Raymond at about fifteen dollars a week. The dramatic agent was
to have ten dollars from the first week's salary of the regular
engagement. As he was working at absolutely bottom figures (board
usually costing at least six dollars a week) and as he was skillful at
his business, and could command work at all times if he were willing to
work for his board, the young man thought he was not very rash in making
an attempt, and yet it seemed to the friend of the young man like the
memorable jump of the fish out of the frying-pan. The difficulty of
going back to work after a failure was entirely overlooked.
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