"I hope so."
"I hope so, too!" declared Sue. "I like Ben."
"He ran as soon as he saw that man," observed Bunker Blue.
"Did he ever tell you anything about himself?" asked Mr. Brown. "You
were with Ben most of the time, Bunker."
"No, sir, he never told me anything about himself. But he seemed to know
a lot about circuses. I asked him if he was ever with one, but he would
never tell me."
"Well, I don't know that we can do anything," said grandpa. "If Ben
comes back we'll treat him right, and if he is in trouble we will help
him. But, since he is gone, there is no use trying to find him."
The circus was over. The boys who had brought their pets to the show
took them home again. It was now late afternoon, and Grandpa Brown said
the boys could leave the tents up until next day, as there was no sign
of a storm.
"You can take them down then," he said to Bunker Blue. "My tent we'll
store away in the barn, until Bunny and Sue want to give another circus.
The big fair tent can also be taken down to-morrow and put away. But
everyone is too tired to do all that work to-night.
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