Arizona republican., 1911-06-10
.POLLYOOLY AND THE LUMP
Copyright, 1909. by the Pearson Pub
 fishing Company.
By Edgar Jepson.

cleS are sacred. NOtnlng must SlduC in the way of following them. Be sides, today l had an exceedingly agreeable meeting with my cousin, the Duke of Osterly, friend of Polly ooly's, to whom indeed he quite un consciously stood in loco pdrentis for a while. At least it was very agree able meeting for me, though he went away from it in a state of entirely unreasonable depression considering his income. And now my pocket is positive volcano; there is that in il which burns-burns." And he slapped it with the grand air.
 You've touched Duke? How very splendid!" cried the Esmeralda. But if it's your birthday, it's my supper l shall be hostess, so there!"
 The three of them got into her motor brougham, and all the way to Princes he and she wrangled amiably about who should be host. The Esmeralda prevailed, 1nd she ordered the supper in a generous, broad-minded fashion, displaying an accurate knowledge of the Honorable John Ruffn's tastes, which seemed to show that she had paid no little attention to them.
 The supper was proceeding joyously, when in the middle oI IL there came 10 the next table tail, DarTe!-shaped young man with an unspeakably terri fling mouStache. So nerce and big and bristly was il that at first Il ab- sorbed all the attention of the tremu- lous beholder Only when his natural panic had abated could he observe that the young man had cheeks uncommon ly like little yellow cushions, thick lips of a scarcely agreeable purplish red, and little black eyes Of the best boot button type. His short-cropped black hair looked a more excellent clothes brush than ever came out of fac tory.
 The Esmeralda acknowledged his profound and elaborate bow with the slightest inclination, and q faint look of dismay swept across her face. Pol lyooly looked at him at length with fascinated, haif-frightened eyes. The Honorable John Rufin gave him half a glance and went on talking.
 Presently the Honorable John Ruff fin said, The yellow gentleman from foreign parts, who keeps staring at you as if he were quite fresh from his simple village is worrying you. Shall l beg him to confine his sparkling glances to the waiters?'
 No, no." said the Esmeralda quick ly. Leave him alone. Hes a very dangerous man. He's Diego Perez, the son of a famous Bolivian brigand- and they call him the Prince of Monte video."
 He looks more like yellow dog, said the Honorable John Rufln in a dispassionate tone, surveying him coldly.
 The South American twisted his fierce mOustache. scowled at the Hon orable John Ruffin, and again turned his gaze on the Esmeralda.
 He was an awful nuisance out there" she said, drowning. He must have been dreadfully spoilt when he was young
 He'll get dreadfully spoilt now that he's old, if he goes on staring like that" said the Honorable John Ruff. fin grimly. Though it would need painstaking work to spoil face like that"
 "Oh, no, no! You must leave him alone, You must, really." said the
 
 ous. The people out there were terri fled of him. Thcy said he would stick at nothing"
 "A chip of the old brigand block eh?" said the Honorable John Rufin calmly. But we must remember that the terror of Montevideo is the lamt of Piccadilly."
 But he carries weapons-a revol yer. They all do," said the Esmer' aida
 Nature gave me all the weapons l need for dealing with South Ameri' can princes" said the Honorable John Ruffin calmly. But after all we're not yellow-dog fanciers. Let us talk about more interesting things-the art of grilling bacon now" q
 Pollyooly did not understand their talk very clearly, but she gathered that her friends did not like the big vel low gentleman with the splendid sparkling diamond in his shirt-front; and, loyally, she took strong dislike to him herself. The next time his eyes fell on her. observing that her companions were absorbed in one an other, she made a most hideous face at him. He started, drew himself up right in his chair, and scowled at her. Pollyooly did not abate her hideous grimace. and with an air of dignity he withdrew his eyes from her. But, owing to defective training in his youth. his was such an unbalanced na- ture that he could not keep them of her; and she enjoyed the rest of that supper very much. Whenever the vel low princes boot-button eyes strayed to their table, she was ready for him with some fresh grimace, suggested by 8 truly fertile fancy. He was bitterly annoyed to find himself no longer able to impress the Esmeralda with the fiery glances of passion; he felt that the need to see what new distortion her angel face Pollyooly had ready for him weakened his power of concen- trating himself in a burning gaze, and so impaired its intensity. At the end of twenty minutes of 1t he gave it up. rose with a jerk from his chair. and strode out of the restaurant in a petu- ant fury.