"He'll go for a long time if I have anything to say," declared the treasurer. "Did you know we spotted more bogus tickets to-day?" he asked Joe.
"No."
"Well, we did. I found it out just after you left. There were only a few. The rush will come to-night."
"Unless we stop it," put in Jim Tracy.
"We'll stop it!" decided Joe. "That's why I wanted to get things started in a hurry. The trap is all ready to spring. The detectives will be here at eight o'clock, just when the rush is at its height at the ticket wagon."
"Are you going to bring Ham back?" asked Jim, when the conference was over.
"I certainly am," was the answer. "I think he's been on his last spree. And he wouldn't have gone on this one only that he was tempted by some person. Put this tempter out of the way, and it will mean Ham's safety. Now we've got to work."
There was an exceedingly busy time at the circus from then on, and very little of it concerned the show itself. The performance was delayed half an hour that night to enable the trap to be sprung.
Joe and Jim Tracy met a certain train that came in from a large city, and saw alight from it two quiet, unassuming men.
"There they are," said Joe. "Now things will move!" And he and the ringmaster were soon in conversation with the two new arrivals.