"I saw a letter you dropped in the tent, and I followed. But how did you happen to locate Sanford?"
"By adopting just what Bill Watson said was the only plan. I made believe I wanted to buy more stock. Bill said that was the only way to catch Sanford. If I had tried to find him to get my money back he would have kept out of my way. But when he thought I might have more cash for him, he wrote and told me where I could find him. So I just waited until our show came here and then I called on Mr. Sanford.
"I was just begging him to give me back the money for the oil stock when you came in on us, Joe."
"Well, I'm glad I did."
"So am I. I hardly think he'd have paid me if it had not been for you. How did you make him settle?"
"Oh, I just sort of 'held him up' for it," but Joe did not explain the way he had actually "held up" the swindler.
"I'm so glad to get my money back!" Helen sighed as they reached the circus grounds, over which dusk was settling, for it was now early fall.
"And I'm glad, too," added Joe. "Then next time you buy oil stock——"
"There'll not be any next time," laughed Helen, as she went to give Rosebud his customary lumps of sugar.
And that night, in the Sampson Brother's Show, there was an impromptu little celebration over the recovery of Helen's money.