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"Boxes of candy, gloves, or any truck you care to risk," Ernestine added

"But I don't know Mrs Forrest's records, either," Graha taken on the bets "However, if in five minutes--"

"Ten minutes," Paula said, "and to start from opposite ends of the tank Is that fair? Any touch is a catch" Graham looked his hostess over with secret approval She was clad, not in the single white silk slip she evidently wore only for girl parties, but in a coquettish ieable light blue and green silk--alhtly above the knees whose roundedness he recognized; with long stockings toshoes bound on with crossed ribbons On her head was a jaunty swied the ten ht held the watch, while Graham walked down to the other end of the hundred-and-fifty-foot tank

"Paula, you'll be caught if you take any chances," Dick warned "Evan Grahauess Paula'll show hied loyally "And I'll bet she can out-dive him"

"There you lose," Dick answered "I saw the rock he dived from at Huahoa That was after his tister--twenty-two; he had to be to do it It was off the peak of the Pau-wi Rock--one hundred and twenty-eight feet by triangulation And he couldn't do it legitimately or technically with a swan-dive, because he had to clear ter ledges while he was in the air The upper ledge of the two, by their own traditions, was the highest the best of the kanakas had ever dared since their traditions began Well, he did it He beca as the kanakas of Huahoa survive he will remain tradition--Get ready, Rita Start on the full minute"

"It's almost a shame to play tricks on so reputable a swiuest down the length of the tank and while both waited the signal

"He ain And then, to Bert, with just a shade of anxiety: "Is it working all right? Because if it isn't, Paula will have a bad five seconds getting out of it"