After leaving Buffalo the circus turned southward toward Pennsylvania.
One night they arrived at Harmony Falls.
“To-morrow, if all goes right, I am going to take a train for Hopsville and see Squire Dobb,” said Barton Reeve to Leo.
“I hope you have luck,” replied the boy. “If he is keeping any of my property back from me I want to know it.”
The day in Harmony Falls opened very warm. A haze hung over the mountains to the westward.
“We’ll have a storm by night,” said Natalie Sparks to Leo.
The two were now warm friends.
“That will make it bad for the ticket-wagon,” laughed the young gymnast.
“Oh, I hate a storm during a performance,” went on the girl, “especially if it thunders and lightens.”
“Well, that’s what it’s going to do.”