New Britain herald., 1916-09-04

most at my side. There was a fas- 1 cination about this skill of hers 1 which gripped me. I was so engrossed 1 in watching her that I did not ] realize how far out we had gone 1 until at one of her quick turns, I, 1 following her, caught a glimpse of 1 the beach.
 What Madge Remembered. l To my overwrought imagination it ] seemed miles away. I suddenly felt l an overwhelming terror of the cloud l less sky, the rolling waves, even of 1 the girl. who had brought me out so l far.
 ] I looked wildly around for her, but l could not see her anywhere. Evident 1 1v she was indulging in one of her | underwater tricks. I turned blindly ] toward the shore. As I did so I felt 1 a sudden jerk, a quick clutch at my foot, clutch that dragged me down l relentlessly.
 I remember gasping, struggling, ] fighting for life, with an awful sensa- ton of being sunk in a gulf of black ness. I fancied I heard Lillian Un- | derWood's voice in a piercing scream. Then I knew nothing more. 1 The next thing I remembered was | a voice. ''There, she's coming Ut of l it. Let me have that teaspoon of l trandy' and then I felt the spoon in serted between my teeth and some 1 thing fry trickled gently down by 1 drop into my throat The voice was 1 that of pr. Pettit
 With a gasp as the pungent liquid almost strangled me, I opened my eyes to find that the physicians arm was supporting my shoulder and his hand holding the spoon to my lips. "Oh, thank God, thank God,'' some 1 one groaned brokenly on the other 1 side of me, and I turned my eyes to 1 meet Dicky's face bent close to mine and working with emotion.
 "She is all right now,'' the physi- clan said, reassuringly. "She will suffer far more from the shock than from any real damage by her i'm mersion. Get her into the tent" He turned to Mrs. Underwood and said: Rub her down hard, and if there are any extra wraps in the rarty put :H0m around her. Give her a stiff littlc dose of this" He hand ed Lillian the brandy flask. t'Then bring her out into the sunshine again. She'll be all right in little while."
 Dicl1y's Comforting Kisses.
 Dicky picked me up in his arms as the physician spoke as if I had been a child and strode with me toward the 1mprovised tent pr. Petit had | indicated.
 | sweetheart sweetheart, suppose mad lost you," he said brokenly, and then, man-hke, reproachful even In the intensity of his emotion What possessed you to go out so far? If foS1
 on hand when you went down YOU would never have come back Harry and I were too far away when Lii l screamed to be Of any use. But bv the time we got there Miss Draper lad you by the hair and was towing you in."
 My brain was too dazed to com prehend much of what Bicky was saying, but one remark smote on my brain like sledge hammer
 Grave Draper had saved my life! 1 Why? If I had any memory left at ali Grace Draper had
 l Lillian came forward swiftly and placed a restraining finger on my lips.
 You mustn't talk yet" she ad- monished; then to Dicky: Run away now, Dicky-bird, and give Mrs. Durkee and me a chance to take care of her." Little Mrs Durkee's sweet, anxious face was close to Lillian's. "Yes, Dicky," she echoed, "hurry out ! nCw."
 Dicky waited long enough to kiss me, a long, lingering, tender kiss that did more to revive me than the Erandy, and then went obediently away while Mrs. Durkee and Lillian
 rinistered to me as only tender and 1 efficient women can.
 When I was nearly dressed again, l Lillian turned to Mrs. Durkee: "Would you mind getting a cup of coffee for this girl y she asked. 1T know Jim and Katie have some in l preparation out there.'
 "Of course,'' Mrs. Durkee returned, and f1uttered away.
 She had no sooner gone than 14il- | Han gathered me in her arms with a 1 protecting, maternal gesture, as if I had been her own daughter restored