A close call with death and a loss of his arm, compiled with the news that his wife died while he explored a ranch in Mexico, soured Frank Foster to any further attempts to steal cattle. In addition, he learned that Bill McMahan, the man he had worked for over thirty-five years and trusted, hadn't been building a pension for him at all, so Frank turned his back on his life as a ranch hand and tried to make it as a crippled laborer in town. That effort proved frustrating and futile. And then the circus came to town.After all his run of bad luck, Frank Foster found the perfect job with a visiting circus that allowed him to be laughed at for all the right reasons, and to exact his revenge on the one man he held responsible for the way his life had turned out.