They belonged to the theatre, not
to Potter, and, besides, they had a union. But the actors were
dependent upon Potter for the coming winter's work and wages;
they were his employees.
At last he spoke: "We will go on with the rehearsal," he said
quietly.
"Ah!" murmured old Tinker. "He'll take it out on somebody
else." And with every precaution not to jar down a seat in
passing, he edged his way to the aisle and went softly thereby
to the extreme rear of the house. He was an employee, too.
III
It was a luckless lady who helped to fulfil the prediction.
Technically she was the "ingenue"; publicly she was "Miss Carol
Lyston"; legally she was a Mrs. Surbilt, being wife to the
established leading man of that ilk, Vorly Surbilt. Miss Lyston had
come to the rehearsal in a condition of exhausted nerves, owing to
her husband's having just accepted, over her protest, a "road"
engagement with a lady-star of such susceptible gallantry she had
never yet been known to resist falling in love with her leading-man
before she quarrelled with him. Miss Lyston's protest having lasted
the whole of the preceeding night, and not at all concluding with
Mr.
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