“Oh, you paid your nickel once,” said Connie quickly.
“This circus is worth many times the admission price,” declared the policeman. He dropped fifty cents into Connie’s hand.
The Brownies felt very proud because Captain Bartley had liked their circus so well. Jane, who still had a few tickets to sell to the real circus, asked him if he would care to buy any.
“Why, yes, my wife and I had planned to go next Saturday,” Captain Bartley replied, taking out his billfold. “The boys at the station should buy a few too. Tell you what! Give me six.”
Jane did not have that many tickets left but she borrowed from Rosemary.
After Captain Bartley had gone, the Brownies counted the money they had taken in at the play circus, and the number of tickets sold for the real one.
“One dollar and fifteen cents for our show!” announced Connie. “And we’ve sold forty-two tickets to the real circus. That’s sixteen dollars and eighty cents profit.”
“Plus five free tickets,” added Eileen in satisfaction. “Won’t Miss Gordon be surprised?”
At school the next day, when the Brownies reported the success of their circus to the teacher, they learned that she also had a surprise for them.
“I sold a few tickets myself,” she revealed. “Twenty-five.”