What he saw worried him, even though it increased his respect for Luck Lindsay.

He studied his nails more critically than before.
"These boys--have they any resources at all, other than their work in pictures?
Did they burn their bridges when they came with you ?" "Oh, far as that goes, they've all got ranches.

They wouldn't starve." Luck's voice was inclined to gruffness under quizzing.
"As I see the situation," Dewitt went on evenly and with a logic that made Luck squirm with its very truthfulness, "they left their ranches and came with you to work in pictures in a spirit of adventure, we might say.
There is a glamour; and your personal influence, your enthusiasm, had its effect.

Should they go back to their ranches now, they would carry back a fresh outlook and a fund of experiences that would season conversation agreeably for months to come.

They will not have lost financially, I take it.