"That is all the money I have," he answered.
"Do you feel like going into my employment again?"
"Yes."
"Then we will see if between us we cannot stave off this danger which threatens my prospects."
There was a lengthened conference, into the particulars of which we need not enter, stating only that Robert was the subject of it. Fitzgerald left Chestnutwood that same evening, plentifully supplied with money.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE CANVAS MAN.
Carden, the canvas man, though discharged from the circus, did not leave town. He hoped to be reinstated in his old position, and made a personal appeal to the manager. But the latter returned a decided negative.
"Don't I do my work well?" asked Carden.