human
What end of the business do you know?
gpt
Operator. Worked two years at the Bijou in Cleveland. I'm down on my luck now; thought I'd try the California studios, because I wanted to learn the camera, and I figured on getting a look at the Fair. I stalled around out there till my money gave out, and then I started back to God's country. He shrugged his shoulders cynically.
human
This is about as far as I'm likely to get, unless I can learn to do without eating and a few other little luxuries,
gpt
Well, it won't hurt you to skip a lesson and have dinner with me, Luck suggested in the offhand way that robbed the invitation of the sting of charity.
human
I always did hate to eat alone.
gpt
Get outa town! in a tone that had in it a boyish note of exultation, the thin youth hung to the seat of the bouncing buckboard and wondered if Luck really could drive, or if he was half