"Well, for the want of a better name we'll call it a sort of confidential man."
"I appreciate the offer more than I can tell you, Mr. Sparling.
But—but—"
"But what?"
"I want to go through the mill in the ring. I want to learn to do everything that almost anyone can do there."
The showman laughed.
"Then you would be able to do what few men ever have succeeded in doing. You would be a wonder. I'm not saying that you are not that already, in your way. But you would be a wonder among showmen."
"I can do quite a lot of things now."
"I know you can. And you will. What do you say?"
"It's funny, but since you told me of the accident to your bareback man, I was going to ask you something."
"What?"