for our hero had certain questions he wanted to ask the physician.

Joe then gave the newspaper men the chance they had been waiting for.
Several of them had flocked to the scene of the accident as soon as it
was known that something mysterious had happened to the diver. And Joe
was in a position to tell exactly what the situation was down under the
water, though he had not yet heard just how the diver came to be
caught.

Joe described his own work modestly enough, but the newspaper men were
shrewd enough to guess what Joe had left out, and one may be sure, in
the writing of the story, they omitted none of the thrills.

It was a "big story" and soon was being telegraphed over the country,
though, of course, the local papers made the most of it, spreading it
entirely across their front pages, using big headlines. Joe's picture
was snapped by several photographers, one having secured a view of Joe
in his ragged trousers and old shirt--the improvised bathing suit.

"Well, I suppose we might as well be getting back to the circus," said
Joe to Helen, when he could get away from the reporters and
photographers. An admiring crowd of boys followed him as he made his
way out to his motor-cycle.

"Are you going on with your act--after what you have gone through
with?" asked Helen in surprise.

"Why not?" Joe asked in some astonishment. "No one else can take my
place, can he?"

"No, but I should think you'd be so exhausted that you couldn't
perform."

"Oh, I'm all right," said Joe easily; but, truth to tell, he did feel
the strain. "I may not try to break any under-water records," he went
on, "but I'll do all the rest of it."

Some of the circus folk had witnessed the sensational rescue by Joe,
and when he and Helen reached the circus grounds our hero was met by
Jim Tracy.

"What's this I hear about you?" asked the ringmaster.

"Nothing bad, I hope," answered Joe with a smile.

"I should say not! Say! this will be the biggest card you ever had, or
the circus either. Wait until you see what happens, Joe."

And something did happen.

Jim had the whole story from the early editions of the papers, which
sold in great numbers on the circus grounds. Of course, there was a
record breaking crowd at the show, for the story had spread that the
young rescuer of the imprisoned diver was the boy fish who performed in
the glass tank with the seal, and reserved seats near Joe's platform
were at a premium.

Joe spoke to the r