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The general verdict of his fellow-professionals was, 'Clever enough, but no actor, and he was without the sympathy or imagination to identify himself completely with any character and feelings opposed to his own; he had obtained one distinct success, and one only at a matinée, when a new comedy was presented in which a part of some consequence had been entrusted to him.
Sometimes as much as twenty dollars a week, rarely less than twelve or fifteen. And despite her drinking and her freehandedness with her fellow-professionals less fortunate and with the street beggars and for tenement charities, she had in her stockings a capital of thirty-one dollars. She avoided the tough places, the hang-outs of the gangs.
Nor yet such a leader as later times have accustomed us to; a man who by bribery or intrigue induces his fellow-professionals to support him. He was one of those who rule by personal dominance. His courage has already been remarked; and he knew how much fearlessness can achieve in a profession where most men are peculiarly cowardly.
Rapidly calculating that he would not notice the substitution, Micky, after lighting the "stub," handed it to the young man, retaining the good cigar himself, and placing it straightway in his mouth. This trick would probably have passed off undetected, if it had not been observed by some of Micky's fellow-professionals.
"I did think Potter was better up in his work, I did. A pretty bungle he'll make of it!" "It would serve him right, for interfering with fellow-professionals in this infernal unprincipled manner. But he shan't have the chance, Braddle, he shan't have the chance; we'll steal a march on him this time." "Is the coast clear yet?" said Braddle. "We must risk it.
The mining engineers, of course, did not share this delusion. "There must be something serious the matter, or they would not be wasting power like that," murmured the American to one of his fellow-professionals. "A smash-up in the engine-room. Nada es mas seguro," was the answer. "Wonder if any one is hurt?" The Spaniard bent a little nearer. "What can you expect?" he whispered sympathetically.
They were cut off from their apology for a base, and cheerfully cut their way back to it again; they crowned and cleaned out hills full of the enemy with the precision of well-broken dogs of chase; and in the hour of retreat, when, hampered with the sick and wounded of the column, they were persecuted down eleven miles of waterless valley, they, serving as rearguard, covered themselves with a great glory in the eyes of fellow-professionals.
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