The Little Lady of The Big House by Jack London Chapter 13 Page 22

“No one. After you had been under two minutes I knew it had to be something like this, and I came exploring.”

“It was Dick’s idea. He had it built into the tank afterward. You will find him full of whimsies. He delighted in scaring old ladies into fits by stepping off into the tank with their sons or grandsons and hiding away in here. But after one or two nearly died of shock — old ladies, I mean — he put me up, as to-day, to fooling hardier persons like yourself. — Oh, he had another accident. There was a Miss Coghlan, friend of Ernestine, a little seminary girl. They artfully stood her right beside the pipe that leads out, and Dick went off the high dive and swam in here to the inside end of the pipe. After several minutes, by the time she was in collapse over his drowning, he