"Come on!" Joe said.
It was time to make the exchange. This was one of the critical parts of the trick.
Joe let go the rings and hurled himself forward his eyes on the swinging trapeze bar, his hands out stretched to grasp it. He passed the form of his partner in mid-air, and the next instant he was swinging from the trapeze.
He could not turn to look, but he felt sure, from the burst of applause which came, that Tonzo had successfully done his part.
Again Tonzo and Joe were swinging in long arcs, so manipulating their bodies as to give added momentum to the long ropes.
"Ready down there?" asked Joe of Sid.
"Ready," he answered.
"Then go!"
Sid swung off, as Tonzo hung head downward with outstretched hands. Sid easily caught them, for this was a trick they often did together. Now must come Joe's second leap, and it was not so easy as the first, nor did he have as good a chance of catching Sid's legs as he would have had at Tonzo's hands.
However, it was "all in the day's work," and he did not hesitate at taking chances.