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"All OK," Bert assured "I went inThere's plenty of air"

"Ready!" Rita called "Go!"

Graham ran toward their end like a foot-racer, while Paula darted up the high dive By the tiained the top platfors When he was half-way up she threatened a dive, coet out on the twenty-foot platforhed down at hi-- the precious seconds are ticking off," Ernestine chanted

When he started to cliain chased him to the half-way platform with a threat to dive But not many seconds did Graham waste His next start was determined, and Paula, poised for her dive, could not send hiain the thirty-foot platforer Out into space she launched, head back, arether, her body balanced horizontally on the air as it fell outward and doard

"Oh you Annette Keller cry floated up

Graham ceased pursuit to watch the completion of the dive, and saw his hostess, a few feet above the water, bend her head forward, straighten out her arms and lock the hands to for the balance of her body, change it frole

Theout on the thirty-foot platforht he coulda full stroke straight for the far end of the tank Not till then did he dive He was confident that he could outspeed her, and his dive, far and flat, entered him in the water twenty feet beyond her entrance

But at the instant he was in, Dick dipped two flat rocks into the water and struck thee her course Graham heard the concussion and wondered He broke surface in the full swing of the crawl and went down the tank to the far end at a killing pace He pulled himself out and watched the surface of the tank A burst of handclapping fro herself out of the tank at the other end

Again he ran down the side of the tank, and again she climbed the scaffold But this time his wind and endurance enabled him to cut down her lead, so that she was driven to the twenty-foot platfor, but tilted i toward the west side of the tank Almost they were in the air at the saainst his face and arress; but she led into the deep shadow thrown by the low afternoon sun, where the water was so dark he could see nothing