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Soon there was s with Mrs Tully

"Now, Aunt Martha, just because you never learned to swim is no reason for you to take such a position I aht into the tank here, and stay under for ten minutes"

"Nonsense, child," Mrs Tully beaer than you, er than any other man; and his record, as I knoas three minutes and forty seconds, as I very well know, for I held the watch ainst Harry Selby on a wager"

"Oh, I know ered; "but tiht now, in all his youthful excellence, I'd drown him if he tried to stay under water with me Ten minutes? Of course I can do ten minutes And I will You hold the watch, Aunt Martha, and ti fish in a bucket," Dick completed for her

Paula cliboard

"Time me when I'm in the air," she said

"Make your turn and a half," Dick called

She nodded, ss to their utmost capacity Graham watched enchanted A diver himself, he had rarely seen the turn and a half atteht blue and green silk clung closely to her, showing the lines of her justly proportioned body With what appeared to be an agonized gulp for the last cubic inch of air her lungs could contain, she sprang up, out, and down, her body vertical and stiff, her legs straight, her feet close together as they i into the air by the board, she doubled her body into a ball, htened out in perfect diver's form, and in a perfect dive, with scarcely a ripple, entered the water

"A Toledo blade would have made more splash," was Graham's verdict

"If only I could dive like that," Ernestine breathed her ad is a , and that's why Paula does it so terribly well She's got the sense of time--"

"And of abandon," Graham added