The young gymnast smiled.
“It wouldn’t be my first trip,” he said. “I went up once before—in a big hurry.”
And he told of his adventure while trying to escape from Daniel Hawkins.
About a week after this Leo went up with the professor, taking the place of the assistant. He rather enjoyed the trip and was not at all afraid.
“I’m used to swinging around in the air, you know,” he explained.
The circus was going still further west, and one day it struck a town around which the forest fires were raging rather extensively. On this same day Larry Greson came to the manager of the show and said that Professor Ricardo was sick and could not give his customary exhibition.
“That’s too bad,” replied Adam Lambert. “It has been advertised, and I hate to disappoint the crowds.”
Leo heard about the trouble and presently he volunteered to go up with Greson.
“I’ll do a turn or two on the bar and the country folks won’t know the difference,” he said.
And so it was arranged that the young gymnast should go up.