Arizona republican., 1911-06-07
P0[LY0OLY AND THE LUMP
 By Edgar Jepson.
Copyright, 1909. by the Pearson Pub
 fishing Company.

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 He went on to inquire about her plans; and his face fell when he learnt that she was only going to stay another week. He begged her to stay till the end of his holidays. pointing out that it would make 1t much safer for Ma rion if she did. But Pollyooly assured him that that was the term fixed; and in her heart of hearts she would not have had it longer. Pleasant as the Court was, she wanted to get back to the Lump. She had an uneasy feeling that it was not right that she should be having this splendid time in the country with the Lump in stuffy Lon- don.
 Ronald's discovery set them on far more intimate terms with one another as sharers of a great secret He was no longer condescending with her; he felt that the fact that she was playing the chief part in such a difficult game relieved her to a great degree from the disability under which she suffered of being a girl. Now. too, that she no longer needed to be so much on her guard, she talked to him freely, and proved lively and entertaining com panion. They became the closest of comrades. inseparable. Miss Marlow was deeply and economically touched by the fact that so early in life such a warm sympathy prevailed between two beings who were destined later to be welded together by the marriage bond.
 Naturally, when the morning of the fatal day of parting arrived, they were both sad. Quite unconsciously they spent it in pilgrimage to the haunts in which they had most enjoyed them selves At the end of the morning they were coming along one of the shrubberies towards the house when the lunch-bell rang.
 Pollyooly stopped short and said, Wed better say good-by now I've got to slip away directly after lunch. You'd better not see me go, in case you're asked"
 ''I suppose I'd better not" said Ron aid gloomily; and he put his hands in his pocket, and kicked at the gravel.
 They gazed at one another awk- wardly; then he said, Well, you're the jolliest kid ever came across"
 "I didn't know boys could be as nice as you," said Pollyooly with convic- tion
 silence; then with a determined, al- most heroic, air Ronald stepped for ward. put his arms clumsily around Pollyooly's shoulders, and kissed her full on the lips.
 They both gasped and flushed; then with one accord they turned and walked quickly towards the house, say ing nothing, looking shamefaced.
 On the top of the steps. Pollyooly paused and said softly, "Good-by, Ron nie."
 "Good-by. old girl" said Ronald.
 As soon as lunch was over Polly ooly went quietly out into the garden and into one of the long shrubberies. Once screened by It she ran swiftly along it to the home wood. Then she stopped running and walked quickly. As she came out of the gate at the end of it the clock over the stables of the Court struck half-past two; and thirty yards down the road a motor car was coming slowly up to the gate.
 The Honorable John Rufin. masked by his goggles, was driving it; and on the seat beside him sat the Lump. At the sight of him Pollyooly gave little cry, rushed down the road, sprang into the car, caught him up and kissed and hugged him furiously.
 The Honorable John Ruffin smiled, and said, 'I thought you'd be dying to see him. But take him into the ton neau and put on the goggles and the cloak on the seat. Cover up all your hair with the hood"
 Pollyooly made haste to transfer her self and the Lump to the tonneau and slip on the hooded cloak and the gog. gles.
 You'll do. No one will recognize us," said the Honorable John Ruffin; and he set the car going
 For a long time Pollyooly was busy with the gurgling Lump, assuring her. self that he had not suffered for lack of her care, trying to ascertain the de. gree of his joy at being restored to her. At last she settled back in the tonneau with a sigh of content: she had earned the twenty pounds.
 Twenty miles from Ricksborough Court the Honorable John Rufin bade her come and sit by him on the front seat, and let the car go slow while he questioned her about her success at the Court.
 When he heard that Ronald had dis covered her secret, he drowned, and said. That's a pity. It means that they'll find out the trick we played on them very much sooner than they would have done"
 "Oh. no. Ronald will never tell" said Pollyooly firmly.
 Since a month later, after he had gone back to Eton. the newspapers