"The loss of that chimpanzee is a big one for the circus," said
Snap, while on the way home. "Just see how they feature him on
the bills. They have other lions, but Abe was their only man-monkey."
What the youth said about the chimpanzee was true. Abe, as he
had been named, was a wonderful drawing-card. At first a reward
of fifty dollars was offered for his return, and later this sum
was increased. It may be as well to state here that the owner
of the circus suspected that the men who had been discharged by
him had the chimpanzee and would have it returned to him when
the reward was large enough. What had become of the men nobody
knew, and the boy acrobat had likewise disappeared.
"That boy interested me," said Snap. "I'd like to meet him again
and have a talk with him."
"Maybe we will meet him again some time," answered the doctor's
son.
"Oh, it's not likely. There won't be anything to keep him in these
parts. If he is a regular acrobat, more than likely he'll join
some other circus or some vaudeville show."
"He didn't look as if he liked the life," said Whopper.
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