The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21

He looked up and met the look of those brown eyes oe which he thought he had only dreamed - gold and smoke topaz in a setting of pale blue enamel. Martin stood with the child's swimming belt hanging slack and dripping in his large hand.
 The boyish voice said: Excuse me, but wanted to practice div ing here."
 "Please do,' Martin replied. and stepped to one side. For a second the girls body braced itself and then shot off in a dive The spring. board shook a little, and. below. the water seethed with the small commotion that follows upon a clean dive. Martin felt his chest ex- pand as he drew a deep breath. He ran to the springboard and straight as an arrow he shot through the water in a magnificent dive as if at the start of a race. It took him far out into the lake without a stroke; and then turning saw the girl on the steps again, laughing and wait ing for him. As he scrambled out behind her he saw, close before his eyes, her knees. incomparably shapely and set as straight as a die with the line of the leg. Then she ran up the ladder to the high hiv- ing platform. Martin stood there dripping with the water running from his hair over his eyes; he scarcely knew where he was.
 "Now we shall see the lovely twins dive again from the i've meter diving board" he heard Herr Mayreder saying. Herr Mayreder was putting on his pince-nez, which rung rather oddly by cord from
 Martin looked up to the high div the breast of his bathing costume. ing board and grasped 1t all in a flash.
 Up there stood two girls--very much alike, almost indistinguish- able. They laid their hands on each others shoulders and then, brac- ing themselves, with their toes grasping the edge of the platform and their prety heels posed above, they sprang into the air and plung- ed into the water.
 The man in the striped pull-over Bobby, by name, turned to the count with whom he had just been playing tennis, and who now leaned his meager greyhound figure against the rails, and said:
 Pretty girls, those Lyssenhopes ---the prettiest in the whole of Frauensee. and you absolutely can't tell them apart. Funny!
 "Yes, old Lyssenhop told me he didn't know one of his daughters from the other himself. They're al- ways making fun of people by pass ing themselves off as each other. If a man fell in love with them he'd never know which of the two begin with" said the count, who wore Q monocle with his bathing cloak.
 With both. for choice Bobby decided.
 Something came over Martin. With his eyes on the two girls. who had just come out of the water and were now running a race over the sand, he took 1t on himself to join in the conversation. His forehead was puckerad like a child's, with a network of little wrinkles. He was beseiged by a turmoil of emo- tions, and in his excitement he al- most shouted:
 Il can't understand how any, body could take one for the other. They are entirely different. In the first place one is much prettier--no comparison. Also she is in better form and has a better figure. The other is positively knock-kneed. And then the first swims with the trudgeon, and the other with the breast stroke, and none too we'll at that. There couldn't be any question of confusing them."
 The two men turned to the swimming instructor, Bobby not without marked astonishment. The count fingered his monocle and said in nasal voice:
 Most interesting! You are giv- ing professional opinion? Most interesting ."
 Martin realized suddenly that the long morning on the gangway had given him a touch of the sun. Possibly even slight sunstroke. His head was burning and singing so ddly. He cfenched his teeth and said: "I am not professional. am an engineer. My name is He'll Dr Heil."
 He brought his bare heels to- gether in a curt bow that was re- turned by the other two as curtly. and with some hesitation.
 (To Be COntlnucd)
 Copyright, 193, by Wiki Baum)