"Why don't you ask mine?" suggested Joe, half jokingly.
CHAPTER IX
BILL WATSON'S IDEA
Helen Morton gave Joe a glance and a smile. Then she looked at the open letter in her hand.
"That's so," she said brightly. "I never thought of that. I wonder if you could advise me?"
"Why, I'm one of the best advisers you ever saw," returned Joe, laughingly.
"I know you're good on the trapeze," Helen admitted, "but have you had any business experience?"
"Well, I was in business for myself after I ran away from home and joined the professor," answered Joe. "That is, I had to attend to some of his business. What is it all about?"
"That's just what I want to know," answered the young circus rider. "It's a puzzle to me."