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Phil knew he would growl because the fellow had not yet had his breakfast. "Seems to me the circuses are coming this way pretty fast?" suggested the lad. "What d'ye mean?" "I hear that there are to be two over in Corinto within two days yours and and. What's the name of the other one?" "Sparling's," grunted the foreman. Phil grinned appreciatively. He had drawn his man out on the first round.
You'll have your elephant back, and before many days at that. Go watch the show and forget your troubles." It will be observed that, under his apparently excitable exterior, Mr. James Sparling was a philosopher. "Emperor's in jail," mourned Phil. The moment Mr. Kennedy returned, sullen and uncommunicative, Phil sought him out. He found the trainer in Mr. Sparling's tent.
I didn't hit anyone until Larry crowded me so I had to do so in order to save myself, or else run away." "Why didn't you run, young man?" "I I didn't like to do that, you know." Mr. Sparling nodded his head. "How did you hit him?" "He made a pass at me like this," and the lad lifted Mr. Sparling's hand over his shoulder. "I came up under his guard with a short arm jolt like this."
The question came out with a snap, as if the showman already had made up his mind as to what the answer should be. "It was cut, sir," answered the trainer promptly. The lines in Mr. Sparling's face drew hard and tense. Instead of a violent outburst of temper, which Kennedy fully expected, the owner sat silently contemplating his trainer for a full minute. "Who did it?" "I couldn't guess."
Almost too full of the new plans to talk, the Circus Boys hurried back to the circus lot. Mr. Sparling's surprise had been a surprise, indeed. By the time they reached the lot the news had been circulated that the show was to take to the river, and the show people were discussing excitedly the new plan.
"Yes; how does it feel to be a football?" questioned another. "I guess you got even with me that time," answered Teddy good-naturedly. "But say, that's easy compared with riding the educated mule." The great white billows of the Sparling Combined Shows were moving steadily across the continent. The receipts had exceeded Mr. Sparling's most sanguine expectations, and he was in great good humor.
He could not believe it possible that Teddy was guilty of eavesdropping, and yet the evidence seemed to point strongly in that direction. Taking firm hold of his companion's arm he led him along toward Mr. Sparling's cabin. "What's all this row about?" growled Teddy. "That is what I hope you will be able to explain to Mr. Sparling's satisfaction," replied Phil.
Very soon she had lost all the money that her husband had left to her credit, and her bankers wrote to notify her that she was overdrawn. A sudden terror of Sparling's displeasure seized her; she sold a bracelet, and tried to win back what she had lost.
Sparling's lawyer visited the town where the disturbance had occurred on the previous day, and at his client's direction made a settlement that should have been wholly satisfactory to the injured parties. Ordinarily the showman would not have settled the case, in view of the fact that neither he nor any of his employees was directly responsible for the series of disasters.
The story of her mother the more she knew of it, the more she realized it, the more sharply it bit into the tissues of life; the more it seemed to set Juliet Sparling and Juliet Sparling's child alone by themselves in a dark world.
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