ic battery? Tishy gave her account of it, but before she
had done the Professor was thinking about Sabines or Lucanians. The
fact is that Tishy was never at her best with her father. She was
always so anxious to please him that she tumbled over her own anxiety,
and in this present case didn't tell her story as well as she might
have done. He began considering how he could get back to the shreds
of Bopsius, if any were left, and looked at his watch.

"Well, that was very funny--very funny!" said he absently. "Now,
don't forget the heroic rescue before you go."

Tishy perceived the delicate hint, and picked up the paper with "I
declare I was forgetting all about it!" But she had scarcely cast her
eyes on it when she gave a cry. "Oh, papa, papa; it's _Sally_! Oh
dear!" And then: "Oh dear, oh dear! I can hardly see to make it out.
But I'm sure she's all right! They say so." And kept on trying to
read. Her father did what was, under the circumstances, the best
thing to do--took the paper from her, and as she sank back with a
beating heart and flushed face on the chair she had just risen from
read the paragraph to her as follows:

"HEROIC RESCUE FROM DROWNING AT ST. SENNANS-ON-SEA.--Early this
morning, as Mr. Algernon Fenwick, of Shepherd's Bush, at present on
a visit at the old town, was walking on the pier-end, at the point
where there is no rail or rope for the security of the public, his
foot slipped, and he was precipitated into the sea, a height of at
least ten feet. Not being a swimmer, his life was for some minutes
in the greatest danger; but fortunately for him his stepdaughter, Miss
Rosalind Nightingale, whose daring and brilliant feats in swimming
have been for some weeks past the admiration and envy of all the
visitors to the bathing quarter of this most attractive of south-coast
watering-places, was close at hand, and without a moment's hesitation
plunged in to his rescue. Encumbered as she was by clothing, she was
nevertheless able to keep Mr. Fenwick above water, and ultimately to
reach a life-buoy that was thrown from the pier. Unfortunately, having
established Mr. Fenwick in a position of safety, she thought her best
course would be to return to the pier. She was unable in the end to
reach it, and her strength giving way, she was picked up, after an
immersion of more than twenty minutes, by the boats that put off
from the shore. It will readily be imagined that a scene of great
excitement ensued, and that