"Oh, I know that!" Joe declared.
He and Helen bade Benny good-bye and went out, feeling rather sad. It had all happened so suddenly, and the prospects were not very bright for the young circus performer.
"What's to be done?" asked Helen.
"I don't know," Joe was frank enough to say. "I'll have to have a talk with Jim Tracy."
The ring-master shook his head when Joe reported to him the unsatisfactory result of the visit to the hospital.
"It looks bad, Joe," said Jim.
"That's what I think."
"Can you go into the tank again to-night?"
"I guess so. You'll have to fill in part of my trapeze work though."
"Well, I can do that more easily than I can get some one to work the tank act. It's lucky you practised that."