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When he touched the side of the tank he ca, and stood ready to dive in at the first sign of her But there were no signs

"Seven ht! And a half!"

And no Paula Forrest broke surface Graham refused to be alarmed because he could see no alarm on the faces of the others

"I lose," he announced at Rita's "Nine minutes!"

"She's been under over two et me excited," he said "I've still a minute--maybe I don't lose," he added quickly, as he stepped off feet first into the tank

As he went down he turned over and explored the cement wall of tank with his hands Midway, possibly ten feet under the surface he esti in the wall He felt about, learned it Was unscreened, and boldly entered Almost before he was in, he found he could co surface in pitchy blackness and feeling about hiers touched a cool smooth arm that shrank convulsively at contact while the possessor of it cried sharply with the startle of fright He held on tightly and began to laugh, and Paula laughed with him A line fro her laugh in the gloohten me when you touched me," she said "You ca"

"What?" Grahaown--a dusty, , close lines, and heavy, tarnished gold borders and cords and things And the only jewelery a ring--one enoro e sailed the All Away"

"Is there anything you don't do?" he laughed

She joined with hiely hollow in the pent and echoing dark

"Who told you?" she next asked

"No one After you had been under twolike this, and I ca"

"It was Dick's idea He had it built into the tank afterward You will find hi old ladies into fits by stepping off into the tank with their sons or grandsons and hiding away in here But after one or two nearly died of shock--old ladies, Ihardier persons like yourself--Oh, he had another accident There was a Miss Coghlan, friend of Ernestine, a little seht beside the pipe that leads out, and Dick went off the high dive and swam in here to the inside end of the pipe After several , he spoke up the pipe to her in hlan fainted dead away"