Part 27 (1/2)

”I knohat I'll do I'll slip back to the lot and perhaps I shall be able to find so about on the wagons”

Now that the uproar had ceased Phil crept back toward the circus lot, lying down in the grass whenever he heard a sound near hi discovered he crawled up to a wagon, cliently for clothes He found none

Keenly disappointed, Phil e in his first effort at getting away

This, he found, was loaded ready to be taken to the train

At any uess I'll have to hurry!” e of circus affairs stood hiht, he found a bundle in which were a coat and a pair of overalls, rolled up and stowed under the driver's seat

”Fine!” chuckled Phil ”It's a good deal like stealing, but I have to have theet back to et his clothes I wish I had a hat and pair of shoes

But I guess I ought to be thankful for what I already have”

Saying this, Phil dropped froot into the clothes They were old and dirty, but he did not mind that

They were clothes and they would cover his conspicuous ring costu for him to consider at the present et started for Corinto,” he decided

Phil reached under the neck of his shi+rt for his little bag of money

”Oh, pshaw! I've lost it Let ?”

For the life of him he was unable to say whether he had done so, or whether histent

”Well, I shall never see that one by this tiical conclusion

The first thing to be done noas to get off the lot, which Phil did as quickly as possible Clad in the soiled, orn garhtly about his neck, the lad attracted no special attention Getting well away frorounds, he halted to consider what his next o over to the station and get sohts looked so bright in the station that he did not consider it prudent to enter So Phil waited about until he saw one of the railroad switch in from the yards

”How far is it to Corinto, please?” he asked

”Fiftyto the show?”

”Well, not exactly I' to the outfit, and I'rowled the switchard

”Which way do the trains go for Corinto?”

”That way That track runs right through without a break

It's a single track road all the way”

”Thank you”