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"I'll wager, for a man who drowned a whole kanaka crew, it was you who did the helping," Dick corateful," Paula challenged, her eyes directly on Graha, wasn't beautiful, wasn't a golden brown young goddess"

"Her mother was the Queen of Huahoa," Grahaentleman They were dead at the ti She was beautiful as any woman anywhere in the world olden brown She was tawny golden But you've heard the story undoubtedly--"

He broke off with a look of question to Dick, who shook his head

Calls and cries and splashings of water from beyond a screen of trees warned them that they were near the tank

"You'll have to tell me the rest of the story some time," Paula said

"Dick knows it I can't see why he hasn't told you"

She shrugged her shoulders

"Perhaps because he's never had the time or the provocation"

"God wot, it's had wide circulation," Grahaanatic--or whatever you call it--king of the cannibal isles, or of a paradise of a Polynesian isle at any rate--'By a purple wave on an opal beach in the hush of the Mahi off fro vine, the bee to the opening clover,'" she huot his teeth into her leg and she straightened him out with the spur, and waited for Dick to help her off and tie hiars!--I'ht called froh dive forty feet above "Wait a !"

And come he did, in a swan dive that was al approval froirls

"A sweet dive, balanced beautifully," Grahaed from the tank

Bert tried to appear unconscious of the praise, failed, and, to pass it off, plunged into the wager

"I don't knohat kind of a swimmer you are, Grahaars"

"Me, too; me, too!" chorused Ernestine, and Lute, and Rita