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"Was the ht "And a ers playing with the fastenings of her blouse, "if I aze, and kept it averted There was a pause, in which he knew everybody le frohter from all, and, "A frame-up!" from Bert, that overcame Graham's resoluteness He looked quickly The Little Lady's blouse was off, and, fro suit It was evident that she had dressed over it for the ride

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But Lute, not sily led the retreat of the girls to the dressing rooms

Graha scaffold and swan-dive beautifully into the tank; heard Bert's adrined by the trick that had threatened to outrage hi about the wonder wo House, and how she had happened so wonderfully to be As he fetched down the length of tank, under water,the shoaling botto about her She was Dick Forrest's wife That was all he kne she had been born, how she had lived, how and where her past had been--of all this he knew nothing

Ernestine had told him that Lute and she were half sisters of Paula That was one bit of data, at any rate (Warned by the increasing brightness of the bottonizing Dick's and Bert's legs intertwined in whatbout, Graham turned about, still under water, and swam back a score or so of feet) There was that Mrs Tully whom Paula had addressed as Aunt Martha Was she truly an aunt? Or was she a courtesy Aunt through sisterhood with the mother of Lute and Ernestine?

He broke surface, was hailed by the others to join in bull-in-the- ring; in which strenuous sport, for the next half hour, he was coility, as well as strategy, of Paula in her successful efforts at escaping through the ring Concluding the ga hard, the entire party raced the length of the tank and crawled out to rest in the sunshine in a circle about Mrs Tully