"He did it!" cried Jim Tracy. "It was a great jump. We'll feature that now."
He looked at Sid and Tonzo Lascalla, as though asking why they had not worked something like this into their acts previously. But the Spaniards only shrugged their shoulders and raised their eyebrows.
"That was great, Joe!" exclaimed Benny Turton, as Joe leaped to the ground over the edge of the life net. "Great!"
Joe smiled happily.
"It was wonderful," added Helen Morton, who was about to put her trick horse, Rosebud, through his paces. "It was wonderful—but I don't like to see anybody take such risks."
"Anybody?" asked Joe in a low voice.
"Well, then—you," she whispered, as she ran off to her ring.
"Well, I did it, you see," observed Joe to his two partners. "I guess I know how to fall into a net."
"You sure do!" averred the ring-master. "Try that at each performance, Joe."
"Only—be careful," added Tonzo Lascalla. "We do not want to have to get another partner."