n?"

"I don't know. I've had several offers to go with hippodrome
exhibitions, and on a theatrical circuit."

"Oh, then you are going to leave us?"

Joe looked at Helen. There seemed to be a new light in her eyes. And
though she was smiling, there was something of disappointment showing
on her face. With parted lips she gazed at Joe.

"I thought perhaps you would stay," she murmured, her eyes downcast.

"I--I guess I will!" said Joe in a low voice. "This is a pretty good
circus after all."

And so Joe stayed. And what he did in the show will be related in the
next volume of this series, to be called: "Joe Strong, the Boy Fish;
Or, Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank."

The chariots rattled their final dusty way around the big tent. The
"barkers" came in to sell tickets for the "grand concert." The animal
tent was already down for the last time that season. With the ending
of the concert the bugler blew "taps." The torches went out.

"Good night, Joe," said Helen.

"Good night, Helen," he answered, and as they clasped hands in the
darkness we will say good-bye to Joe Strong.

The End

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