I am of the circus, and of it I shall always remain." "I wish you might not; I wish the dream might come true, even yet," she made reply.

"Why shouldn't it?
Wilder ones have come true for other people; why should they not for you ?" Before her husband could make any response to this, the whole trend of the conversation was altered by the boy.
"Father," he said, "am I to do the trick to-night?
Senor Sperati says it is silly of me to sit about all dressed and ready if I am to do nothing, like a little super, instead of a performer and an artist." "Oh, but that is not kind of the senor to say that," his father replied, soothing his ruffled feelings.

"You are an artist, of course; never super--no, never.

But if you shall do the trick or not, I cannot say.

It will depend, as it did at the matinee.