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And then?" The enchantress arched


power of repartee was as limited as his
power of resistance, shell be hurt
You women are so jolly fond of hurt
in one another!"
But the eyes that met his next min
ute were untroubled-the face of Lady
Connie perfectly serene. How do you
do?" she nodded to the captain. Are
you quite well again. and shall we see
you at the bi-monthly frog match?"
Frog match" was the newly invent
ed term for d club swimming contest
oh yes!' returned Freddy brilliant
ly. THAT isl hope so! Though I've no
cause to be very fond of water-after
! South Africa
But there are no dead horses or
! Beers in our swimming BATH" said
| Lady Connie, land the high dive is the
| best anywhere. Twenty feet deep that
end, you know. Do try ii one day, Mrs.
| LIE Quesnei It's perfectly heavenly
You run right out to the end of the
board, poise yourself. shut your eyes,
and down you go. like a.
'Stone!" suggested Freddy Lori
ker.
Like an arrow" corrected Lady
! Connie. Then she gave a little nod to
the enchantress and another to Fred
dy and tripped away, leaving two
images before the mental vision of the
warrior, one being a fair, slender vir-
ginal form clad in clinging garments
of pale blue and white, with a jaunty
cap on its golden hair, poised for n
swallowlike flight; the other that of a
brunette of rather efflorescent person.
ality and pronounced embonpoint, bal
anced awkwardly on the end of an
elastic plank. He writhed a little at
this, ana excused himself by saying
that he had a twinge of his African
cramp.
Little cat!" thought Mrs. LeQuesne,
noting the labored lie and reading
Freddy like book And being a clev-
er woman she then and there formulate
ed her mental vow never to enter the
club swimming baths under any pos
sible circumstances. Had Lady Con-
ME known of this resolution, her hopes
would have fallen to the ground. But
she remained in ignorance-and was
happy. The next frog match was for
male club members, ladies being pres
ent on the balconies overlooking the
swimming bath by invitation.
so / must wait for my revenge, :"
she said to Molly Verdon, as they sat
together, leaning on the gilt balustrade
and watching the aquatic gambols of
the sterner sex (arrayed in complete
suits of light flannel, be it explained,
in Difference to the proprieties).
There is the LIE Quesne," said Molly.
kissing her hand to a man in a
striped mauve swimming suit. All, it
is Capt. Lorriker"
And he's going in for the thirty
yards under the water race" said Con-
ME anXiously.
DO not be anxious" said her friend.
Capt. Lorriker is not inclined to be
apoplectic, like that stout man in the
Guards. | feel really anxious about
him. Why, he is putting and blowing
already like the sea lion at the zoo.''
"Ah! they're Off" cried Mrs. LIE
Quesne, as the four competitors launch
ed themselves upon their sub aquatic
journey. The guardsman came up to
the surface snorting hideously before
he had accomplished three yards; two
OF the others gave in about the middle
of the course, but Freddy held on and
won amid applause.
And the prize is a diamond frog
aid he will give it to her!" thought
Lady Connie, viciously dinting her red
under lip with one small white eye
tooth. "Oh, If l could only tempt her
in next Ladies' Frog Match l would
l don't quite know what I'd do, but
it should be something that should
break her spell upon him, and bind him
to me forever!"
She did it in another minute Never
was such lucky chance, as Molly Yer
don said
Because Freddy, foolish Capt. Fred
dy-fiushed with triumph and the
smiles of the Enchantress, who meant
to have the diamond frog-Freddy es-
sayed the high dive.
"Oh. l wish he wouldn't moaned Lady
Connie, as her beloved swarmed up
the ladder that led to the elastic plat
form that overhung the deep end of
the bath.
why not?" snapped her friend, I'M
sympathetic for once.
Because of his wound" moaned
Connie, land the cramp-that awful
South African cramp! Suppose he
swallows some water, and il isn't quite
nice
UGH" said Molly, shuddering.
And that brings it on. You know
he has sworn off water since that South
Afric"--
SPLASH
Freddy had done the high dive.
Capital" cried all the spectators.
"Bravo!" cried Mrs. LIE Quesne, ap-
plauding from her balcony. And what
long time he is stopping under water,
too! l had no idea Tippy could show
off like that"
Hell pop up now!" said the Guards
man.
But Freddy did rot pop up, and a
horrible moment went by. Then a man
shouted something and Mrs. LIE Quesne
Uttered and then screamed.
For before any of the paralyzed club
members had reused to action, Lady
Connie had risen, torn off her hat and
jacket, sprung upon her chair, stepped
thence to the broad ledge of the ball
cony and dived. The slight figure cleft
the water of the swimming bath inn
mediately over the spot where Capt
Freddy had gone down, and in a
breathless minute dripping golden
head emerged and half a dozen SWIM
mers leaped in to help the plucky maid
en- land her insensible burden.
She's got him in her mouth" cried
the guardsman, like young New
foundland.
She had, in fact, seized Capt Fred
dy by the collar of his striped swim
ming jacket with those strong, white
teeth of hers, when, between the ago
mics of cramp and the asphyxia of
drowning, he lay feebly squirming at
the bottom of the swimming bath.
There is little more to say, except
that Capt. Freddy was brought round
by brandy and hot blankets. and from
that day the power of the Enchantress
was broken.
But when Lody Connie married the
captain-which she did in the begin
ming of November last-she withdrew
her name from the members list of the
dips" Club. She had plunged for a