Arizona republican., 1911-05-19


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 wouldn't be in your shoes not for nOth
 ink. l wouldn't. In you go.'
 In PollyoOly went; and MT. Gedge
 Tomkins received her with an indig
 nant scowl. His righteous wrath was
 much increased by the fact that for
 the last two hours he had been en- gagged in preparing the defense of an uncommonly violent burglar, of whose guilt he himself was perfectly assured, and had found it extremely difficult to find any means of convincing any in telligent jury of his innocence. At the sight of Pollyooly he burst into an i'm passioned harangue on the vileness of lying and deceit.
 When he came to the end of it. Pol lyooly. who prided herself on the ve- racity which her aunt had so firmly instilled into her. said with some heat. didn't tell any lie. sir; l wouldn't. I said that my aunt wasn't any better; and she wasn't. How could she be when she was dead?"
 For a moment MT Gedge-Tomkins was taken aback by the justness of this reasoning; then he cried, with even more eloquent indignation, It was worse; you acted a lie-you de liberately acted a lie. Oh, l see a black future before you. If at the age of twelve you can form a dis honest plan of this kind, and carry it out. at twenty you will be a callous and hardened criminal of the most abandoned type"
 |" It was for the Lump" said Polly poly stubbornly
 Not a word," cried Mir Gedge- Tomkins "I have done with you, I discharge you. Here is seven shill- ings-two shillings for your work from Saturday to today. and five shillings in lieu of a weeks notice" And he banged down seven shillings on the table.
 Pollyooly gave a little gasp of sur prise and relief She had expected to be sent about her business with no money at all She caught up the seven shillings quickly. said, Good morning. sir" and hurried out of the room with it. lest he should change his mind about paying it.
 As she came down the passage. Mrs. Meeken said Thatll learn you to go taking a honest woman's bread out of
  Ruffin is that wild, I'm afraid to go near him."
 The next morning when the Honor able John Rufin had finished his ba- con, he said gravely: noble type of English womanhood, one Mrs. Nee ken, has informed me that you have been deceiving me. Pollyooly."
 Pollyooly stood still and stared at him with frightened eyes, plucking nervously at her frock.
 ''I will not disguise from you that your conduct has saddened me" be said. It is on par with the way in which your agreeable sex has always treated me. Moreover. it is events like this which inspire into the human heart a cynical disbelief in the cO-exist- ence of virtue and capacity. It is a sad blow. Yet l should have known that your transcendent power of grill ing bacon was incompatible with the sterner virtues"
 "I wouldn't have done it. not to you. sir. if it had only been me. But there was the Lump" said POllyooly in a trembling voice.
 And how does your brother Roger, a child of even tenderer years than your own. come to be a well-spring of deceit?" said the Honorable John Ruff fin.
 "Fm not going 10 let him go to the said Pollyooly.
 |" A laudable ambition. To keep out of the workhouse seems 10 be the first and last ambition of twelve million noble English minds. Am l to take 1t that the five shillings a week which l pay you stands between your brother and the workhouse? said the Hon. Orable John Ruffin.
 five saved up twenty-one shill- | ings: and there's twenty-two shillings aunt had saved"
 Am to understand that you have saved twenty-one shillings out Of the len shillings a week MT. Gedge-Tom- kins and I have paid you during the last three weeks?" "Mr. Tomkins has just paid me seven shillings when he discharged | ne" said Pollyooly. 50 Mir Tomkins discharged you | ,n information received from Mrs | Neeken. did he? A lofty-minded fel- | ow. And so now only five shillings | week stand between the Lump and | he workhOuse?"
 Yes, sir" said Pollyooly. Amazing" said the Honorable | John Rufin. frowning thoughtfully.
 He asked Pollyooly several ques' ions about her weekly budget; and i hen he drew a handful of silver | rom his pocket, looked at it, and | shook his head:
 As I expected, rent is your chief burden. I suppose you occupy fur lished apartment" he said.
 "Oh. no, sir. there aren't any fur lished apartments at three shillings l week. Aunt Hannah brought her ,wn furniture from Muttle-Deeping." aid Pollyooly, somewhat apathet- cally. The subject at the moment lad little interest for her; she was waiting sentence.
 The Honorable John Rufin's face feared That does simplify matters" le said. Now I have had 9 great Ieal of experience for my years which are not as many. Pollyooly, as
 am sure you believe-and my ad- ice to young man or young woman eginning the world, is first Of all to ave a good address. That's what you eed-a good address"
 Yes. sir" said Pollyooly.
 How would it be if you came to i've here?"
 But but aren't I to go?