The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-29

Gathering from his tone that Oh.
had failed in her mission. Mrs. Nee
ken moved towards the door, mutter
Ing that she had been mistaken in tn,
Honorable John Ruff1n and that II sh,
had BEEN aware Of his insensibility II
what was right and proper, she would
never have troubled to Inform him o.
Pollyooly's deceit At the door she
stopped and said with some heat tha'
she expected gentleman to reward
her for service received in q hand
some fashion.
The Honorable John Rufin smiled
agreeably and said. Virtue. Mrs. Nee
ken I. E. virtue is its own reward"
Mrs. Meeken only snorted.
However, she was somewhat con
soled by the fact that Mr.. Gedge-Tom
kins received her information with 8
righteous indignation equal to he'll
own. Deceit, when applied to himself
he could not bear. Moreover, Mrs
Meeken's contention that q child like
PoIlyooly could not keep his rooms In
the immaculate condition q woman OF
her experience could, appealed to his
reason; and he engaged her on the
spot. It must be said in his excuse
that he lacked the Honorable John
Ruffin's sensitiveness of nostril.
Pollyooly came to her work next
morning not knowing Of the misfor.
tune which had befallen her. She
learnt 1t from the sight Of Mrs. Nee
ken in Mr.. Gedge-Tomkins' kitchen.
The good woman greeted her with Il
grin of triumph and said, It's all up
with you ERE, you bryzen little 'uzzy.
Els awytin' for you, e is. an /
wouldn't be in your shoes not for moth
ink, wouldn't In you 60"
In Pollyooly went; and Mr.. 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 en-
uncommonly violent burglar, Of whose
guilt he himself was perfectly assured,
and had found 1t 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 1t, Pol
lyooly, who prided herself on the We
racity which her aunt had SO firmly
instilled into her, said with some heat,
didn't tell any lie sir; / wouldn't
said that my aunt wasn't any better;
and she wasn't How could she be
when she was dead?"
For a moment Mr. Gedge-To mkins
was taken aback by the business Of
this reasoning; then he cried, with
even more eloquent indignation. 1t
was worse; you acted lie-you de-
liberately acted a lie Oh, 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 callous
and hardened criminal of the most
abandoned type"
dolly stubbornly
6 Not word! cried Mr.. Gedge-
Tomkins. Il have done with you! l
you. Here is seven shill-
ings-two shillings for your work from
Saturday to to-day. and five shillings
In lieu of 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
at ALL She caught up the
seven shillings quickly, said, Good
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 That'll learn you to go
taking honest woman's bread out of
her mouf. you little 'uzzy. An Mr.
Rufan is that wild, I'm afraid to go
near him"
The next morning when the Honor.
able John Ruffin 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.
will not disguise from you that
your conduct has saddened me-" he
said. 1t is on a par with the way in
which your agreeable sex has always
treated me. Moreover. 1t is events like
this which inspire into the human
heart cynical disbelief in the co-exist.
ence of virtue and capacity. 1t is a,
sad blow Yet l should have known
that your transcendent power of grill.
ing bacon was incompatible with the
sterner virtues"
wouldn't have done 1t, not to
you, sir. If it had only been me. But
there was the Lump" said Pollyooly
in trembling voice.
And how does your brother Roger,
a child of even tenderer years than
your own, come to be well-spring of
deceit? said the Honorable John Ruff
fin.
I'm not going to let him go to the
workhouse," said Pollyooly.
laudable ambition. To keep out
of the workhouse seems to be the first
and last ambition Of twelve million
noble English minds. Am to take 1t
that the five shillings week which l
pay you stands between your brother
and the workhouse? said the Hon
orable John Rufln.
I've saved up twenty-one shill-
ings; and there's twenty-five shillings
aunt had saved"
Am / to understand that you have
saved twenty-one shillings out of the
ten shillings a week Mr.. GeGge-Tom-