CHAPTER NINE.
LEAVE IT TO THE BUNCH Not a word did Luck say to the Happy Family about his big opportunity.
Instead, he avoided them half guiltily, and he filled the next day and the one after that by seeing, or trying to see, the head of every motion picture company in that part of the State.

He even sent a night letter to a big company at Santa Barbara.

Always he stipulated that he must take his own cowboys with him and have a free hand in the production of Western pictures--since he did not mean to risk having another irate author descend upon him with threats of a lawsuit.
By three o'clock of the day when he was to give Dewitt his decision, Luck was convinced that the two conditions he never failed to mention were as two iron bars across every trail that might otherwise have been open to him.

No motion picture company seemed to feel that it needed seven inexperienced men on its payroll.

A few general managers suggested letting them work as extras, but the majority could not see the proposition at all.