Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater / Or, The Most Dangerous Performance on Record

ed two of the engraved circus coupons. They fluttered to t

r he has sent them back and given up," mused

h were the real circus tickets. He first gave an explanation of the chemical tests he used. Joe read this hastily, but carefully

ration," said Mr. Waldon in his letter. "The slip marked by me as No. 2 is a cou

s not a very great difference, and I am inclined to think that both the genuine and the counterfeit ticket

ething of your financial and business interests, had the bogus tickets made, and on the same kind of paper. But there is a slight difference, which I was ab

bogus tickets printed. You will have to go to the mill making the paper and find out to whom they sold this kind. In that way you w

e detectives to determine. I hope I have started you on the right track. I shall be

ts have been rung in on us! Well, I suspected that, since our own men were thoroughly to be trusted. Now to get at the guilty ones

e was a board of directors who looked after all business matters, and Joe was soon in co

rt," said Mr. Moyne, as he examined the c

t once. That will stop the fraud, graft, or whatever you want to call it. Then we must do a

eneral admission tickets. Joe also wired for a man from a well known detective agency to meet the

resent, and Joe gave his attention t

e big swing, which always caused a thrill on account of the danger involved. Careful watch was kept over the trapeze and other apparatus so tha

inst me as well as against the circu

me person," sugges

get some word from the detecti

s, and preparations were made for big crowds, as the city was the center of a lar

th glee as he thought of the dollars that would be taken in. "And I'm glad we discovered the

n who imitated the light green tickets may have the bright blue one

the treasurer. "But I'll instruct the

t he was making an examination, starting at the paper mill, and

nthusiastic crowds lining the streets. Then was ev

d his fire act earlier bu

to Jim Tracy, at the conclusion of the first afterno

ter, who also sometimes acted as assistant general manag

eir money's worth all right, but it won't be the big se

t it will be new and novel, and

led downtown, as was their custom. Some convention was being held in the city, and across one

ls of two opposite buildings, and the banner attracted

king up at the swaying creation of canvas and

The cat is walking the

that had cried out. It was a woman in the str

rge white cat. It was walking the wire as one's pet might walk the back fence. But this cat seemed to have lo

of one of the buildings from the front walls of which th

hoever saves my cat! A