Arizona republican., 1911-05-24
AND THE LUMP
Copyright, 1909. by the Pearson Pub
 fishing Company
By Edgar Jepson.

| derstand at what they were pointing ! in such an excitement. Pollyooly ar rived presently at a point four feet above the dormer window of her at tic, and slid quickly down onto it's lit | tie roof. She sat astride it for a mo- ment and took a brief, calm survey of the Temple. She observed the anxious crowd of watchers, and waved her hand to it. Then she slipped over the edge of the roof, on to the window ledge, and into the window.
 The Honorable John Ruffin was won. dering at the little burst of cheers from the heart which greeted the safe con. ] clusion of her perilous transit, when Pollyooly entered his sitting-room.
 Where on earth have you come | from" he cried.
 'I crawled along the roof, sir" said Pollyooly.
 But it's a sloping roof!" cried the Honorable John Ruffin, yet more loudly.
 "Yes, sir It does slope" said Pol. lyooly. looking surprised at his ve. hemence.
 The Honorable John Ruffin ran up the stairs to the attic and looked out of the window He came down look. ing rather white, and said, Never. on any account, crawl along that roof again. l forbid it absolutely. I'd rather be writted ten times over than that you should do such a dangerous thing"
 'Yes, sir" said Polly0oly.
 What on earth did you do it for?''
 '1 thought that the Lump would bother you, sir; and you wouldn't know what to give him for dinner g said Pollyooly.
 You thought the Lump would bother me. and l shouldn't know what to give him for dinner, So you crawl along a sloping roof, sixty feet from the ground. to get to us," said the Honorable John Ruffin in a tone of stupefaction.
 He might have had indigestion,' z said Pollyooly.
 The Honorable John Ruffin raised both hands towards the ceiling, and said, "I tell you, Pollyooly, that the female sex is one of the most re- markable phenomena that crawl about the earth"
 Yes. sir" said Pollyooly She did not understand him (she rarely did) right.
 There came the tramp of many feet on the staircase. The policeman, in a rapture at having something to do was coming 10 express his disapproval of Pollyooly's startling activity. He knocked, and the door was not opened to him. He had short talk with the red-faced besieger; then he went away.
 The red-faced man did not. An hour after lunch the Honorable John Ruff fin grew tired of his own society and fetched Pollyooly and the Lump down from their attic and told them stories gave them tea, and then told them more stories.
 Pollyooiy was washing up after sup per, her last task for the day. when he came along the passage in evening dress and an opera hat.
 As he opened his front door be said. "The Kings writ has ceased its bane- full activity for the day. Goodnight, PollyOoly.
 At eight o'clock the next morning the red-faced man was at his post, teeming with dogged resolution. But Pollyooly was careless of him: the Honorable John Ruffin now understood the diet of the Lump. As soon as she had cooked his bacon. she made her Jack-in-the-box exit from his cham bers into those of MT. Gedge-Tomkins, and the red-faced man watched her passage, in silence, but with a gloomy eye.
 When she carried tl his breakfast, Mir. Gedge-TOmkins broke from his usual taciturnity and asked her how the siege was progressing. She told him of the red-faced mans dogged per tinacity and how she had had to crawl along the roof from his attic to her own to get back to the Lump.
 You're not going to do that again today" said MT. Gedge-Tomkins sharply.
 "No. sir. MT, Rufin is going to look after the Lum-Roger, sir, and give him the right things to eat
 "The offshoots of the aristocracy are the curse of the professions said MT. Gedge-Tomkins sternly. Why doesn't he pay his debts instead of looking after young children, an avocation for which he is entirely unqualified?"
 "The Lump doesn't want much look ing after, sir" said Pollyooly in a tone of apology.
 "I do not like that red-faced fellow. I believe he drinks" said NIT. Gedge- Tomkins, with a gloomy frown.
 "Yes, sir" said Pollyooly.
 When you're ready to go back to MT. Ruffin's chambers let me know. l will manage it for you"
 Thank you, sir" said Pollyooly joy fully.
 At ten o'clock she had finished her work in his rooms. and MT. Gedge- Tomkins had finished his morning pipe.
 He went to the window and shouted, "Rufin! Ruffin,"