JOE FOLLOWS
Some little time elapsed before Joe found a chance to speak to Jim Tracy. There had been a slight accident to one of the circus wagons in unloading from the train for that day's show, and the ring-master was kept very busy. One of the elephants was slightly hurt also.
But finally the confusion was straightened out, and our hero had a chance to ask the question that was troubling him.
"What had become of Helen?"
"Why, I don't know where she went," Jim Tracy said. "She came to me almost as soon as we got in this morning, and wanted to know if she could have the afternoon off."
"Cut out her act?" Joe asked.
"That's it. Of course I didn't want to lose her out of the show, but as long as we're going to be here two days, and considering the fact that she hadn't had a day off since the show started out this season, I said she might go. And so she went—at least I suppose she did."
"Yes, she's gone," Joe replied. "But where?"
Jim Tracy did not know and said so. He was too busy to talk much more about it.
"She'll be back in time for the evening performance—that's all I know," he told Joe.