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Updated: June 28, 2025
As they reached the circus grounds and Joe was putting away his motor-cycle, he saw Tonzo Lascalla coming toward him. "Well, and how is the millionaire to-day?" asked the trapeze performer. "Millionaire?" asked Joe, in some surprise. "Why, yes, you must be that since you get so much money and are never known to spend any," returned the Spaniard.
Tonzo Lascalla stepped forward. He held out his hand and said: "I want to beg your pardon, Joe Strong. I have misjudged you!" "So have I!" exclaimed Sid. They were both very much in earnest, and as they shook hands there were tears in Joe's eyes. But they were happy tears. Others of the circus folk who had not understood Joe made haste to make amends, and, for a time, there was a happy group.
The Lascalla Brothers won't kick, will they?" "I don't care if they do. You can do your principal stunts with them, and we'll shove the tank act back on the programme so as to give you a chance to make the change. I suppose, though, if you keep too much out of the Lascalla act they will be kicking." "They may want another partner," suggested Joe. "That's right," agreed the ring-master.
There was not much he could do that was new or different in his trapeze work, though he still kept himself in the van of the profession and did as many hair-raising feats as before. He performed on the trapeze alone now, having dropped his act with the Lascalla Brothers because he could not fit it in with the water work.
"They'll have to do as they do in theatres, and hang out the S.R.O. sign if it keeps on. It looks as though there would be standing room only before long, it certainly is starting the season good." "I'm glad to hear it," remarked Tonzo Lascalla, one of a trio of "brothers" with whom Joe Strong did more or less dangerous things on the high trapeze.
A gale of laughter followed, testifying to the effects of his antics. "All ready, Joe?" asked Sid Lascalla, the other member of the acrobatic trio. "Why, that isn't our call, is it?" asked Joe, who was relacing one of his shoes. "No, but it will come in a few minutes. Are you going to try the long swing and double catch this afternoon?" "I think we might as well, don't you?
Joe Strong turned over in his berth in the circus sleeping car. Something had awakened him from a sound sleep. At first he was not aware what it was, but as his brain cleared he realized that it was some sound of confusion outside the car. "Where are we?" he asked, for he saw Tonzo Lascalla, his trapeze partner, peering from between the curtains of his berth across the aisle.
"He doesn't send any to his folks, for he hasn't any folks," said Tonzo Lascalla. "He told me so. His foster father is well off, and doesn't need any cash from Joe, and he hasn't any other relatives, except maybe some in England he never heard of." "Maybe he's saving to hire a lawyer to get his English fortune for him," suggested Sid Lascalla. "Maybe," agreed his partner.
"Deliver me from them. They mean all right those doctors and nurses but it's awful trying to lie on your back and want a drink of water." "Especially if you happen to know that you could get up and lift a barrel of it, if you weren't ill," put in Tonzo Lascalla. "Yes, I, too, am sorry for Benny. But it is what will happen to all of us in this business."
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