es out the
way I think it will we'll have to give three performances a day instead
of two."

"Oh, we can't do that!" protested Mr. Moyne, the treasurer. "It's hard
enough keeping account of the money and tickets now, with two shows a
day. If we have three--"

He paused, for it was very evident Joe was only joking, and there were
smiles on the faces of the other circus folk.

"Don't worry!" said Joe to the treasurer. "I don't want to act three
times a day any more than you want to count the tickets and cash. And, I
suppose, if we could, by some means, give three performances, it would
only give our swindling ticket friends more chance to work their scheme.
By the way, there are no further signs of their putting bogus tickets
on sale, are there?"

"Not since we started the detectives at work," the treasurer answered.
"But I'm always on the watch, and so are the men at the entrances."

"It's about time those detectives got results, I think," declared Jim
Tracy. "I wonder what they think we're paying them for?"

"It takes time for a thing like that to be cleaned up," said Joe.

"Well, I know what I'd do if I were detecting," half-growled the
ringmaster.

"What?" inquired the treasurer.

"I'd round up and arrest a certain few worthless men I know who used to
be in the circus business--some with this show!" declared Jim. "It's
queer, but our outfit seems to be the only one that they pick on. That's
what makes me think it was some one who used to work for us."

"Who?" the treasurer wanted to know.

"Well, I'm not mentioning any names," declared the ringmaster, as he
prepared to divest himself of his dress suit in readiness for the trip
to the circus train. "But I have my suspicions."

"What makes you say ours is the only circus to have lost money on bogus
tickets?" asked Joe.

"Read it in _Paste and Paper_," was the answer. That was the name of the
trade journal devoted to the interests of circus folk, tent shows, and
the like. "The last number had a piece in it about our losing money on
fake tickets," went on the ringmaster, "and it said it was the first
case of its kind to appear in several years. There have been no
complaints of circuses in other parts of the country being cheated that
way, this article said. So I know it's some one picking specially on
us."

"Well, perhaps you're right," assented Joe. "But as long as we have
changed our style of tickets and they haven't tried their tricks again,
maybe we