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Of course he's dead or he'd found us, for lemme tell you, Miss, the repertation of Twomley & Sorber's Herculean Circus and Menagerie ain't a light hid under a bushel by no manner o' means!" Not if Mr. Sorber were allowed to advertise it, that was sure. But the man went on: "So there you have it. Neale's mine. I'm his uncle. His mother told me when she was dying to look after him.
"Sorber, of Twomley & Sorber's Herculean Circus and Menagerie. And my errand here is to git hold of a chap that's run away from me and my partner. I hear he's in Milton, and I come over from our winter quarters, out o' which we're going to git instanter, Miss; and they tells me down to that newspaper office that I kin find him here. "Now, Miss, where is that 'circus boy' as they call him?
"What's the matter with me?" demanded the boy, in wonder. "What you've been expecting has happened. Oh dear, Neale! whatever shall we do? Your Uncle Sorber's come for you." The boy pulled in his team with a frightened jerk, and for a moment Agnes thought he was going to jump from the carriage. She laid a hand upon his arm. "But we're not going to let him take you away, Neale! Oh, we won't!
"I reckon that rascally nevvy of mine has been playin' in great luck since he run away from Twomley & Sorber's Herculean Circus and Menagerie. Shouldn't blame him if he wanted to stay on. I'd wanter myself. Pleased to meet you, Miss." Ruth hurried to the nearest telephone and called up the lawyer's office. She was not much surprised to find that he was not there, it being Saturday afternoon.
And then my eye caught the advertisements on the south side of "Sorber's Food," of "Cracknell's Ferric Wine," very bright and prosperous signs, illuminated at night, and I realised how astonishingly they looked at home there, how evidently part they were in the whole thing.
To tell the truth, Agnes could scarcely understand how a boy could so dislike circus life as to really want to run away from even Twomley & Sorber's Herculean Circus and Menagerie. There was a glitter and tinsel to the circus that ever appealed to Agnes herself! Personally Mr.
I feeds my lions first; then Bill Sorber's next best friend is his own stomach yes, Ma'am! "The cook tent and the cooks go ahead of the show. For instance, right after supper the tent is struck and packed, and if we're traveling by rail, it goes right aboard the first flat.
It read as follows: STRAYED,OR RUNAWAY FROM HIS GUARDIAN: Boy, 15, slight figure, very light hair, may call himself Sorber, or Jakeway. His Guardian will pay FIFTY DOLLARS for information of his safety, or for his recovery. Address Twomley & Sorber's Herculean Circus and Menagerie, en-route. Ruth read this through; but she read it idly.
I saw a boy at Twomley & Sorber's Circus this last summer do that very thing and he did it no better." "Oh, but that couldn't have been Neale, Mr. Poole," Agnes Kenway hastened to say, "for Neale tells us that he never went to a circus in his life." "He might easily be the junior member of an acrobatic troupe, just the same," said Mr.
"What an awful man your uncle must be. He says he used to put you in a cage full of lions " Neale O'Neil suddenly began to laugh. Agnes looked at him in surprise. For a moment as she told Ruth afterward she was afraid that the shock of what she had told him about Mr. Sorber's appearance, had "sort of turned his brain." "Why, Neale!" she exclaimed.
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