The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-30

been red, and dingy bowler hat. At
ter the Honorable John Ruff1n's adj
mirable lecture, Pollyooly recognized
| him at q glance as the common balm.
He was plainly unused to working
| in the Temple, or he would not have
gone on rapping SO hopefully on the
| Honorable John Ruff1n's outer door.
| Chambers in the Temple are fitted
| with double doors, front door with
knocker on 1t, and an nknockered,
outer door called the "oak." When
| the oak is shut 1T means that the oc-
cupant OF the chambers is literally, or
| f1guratiyely, out. The besieger could
| not have known this, for he remained
quarter Of an hour, rapping pa
| tiently, at three-minutes intervals, on
| the Honorable John Ruffin's oak.
Then he came and knocked at Mr..
Gedge-T omkins's door. Pollyooly open
! ed it
Mr.. Rufin in?' he said. jerking
dirty thumb towards the door oppo
site.
Pollyooly had not heard the Honor
able John Ruffin start for the Law
Courts; and he might not have done
! so. This ignorance served her well,
l
truthful child; and with exact accu.
racy she said, 81 don't know haven,
seen him go in, or out, since yester.
day morning.
What's he like to look att" said
the red-faced man gloomily.
4 Pollyooly knitted her brow, as ii In
an earnest effort to remember; then
she said. We'll, he looks very nice In
his wig"
What colored eyes as g got?" said
the red-faced man.
/ They might be brown; and again
they might not" said Pollyooly, after
1 little thought She was resolved not
to commit herself.
AS matter OF fact, the eyes Of the
Honorable John Rufin are very fine
4 gray.
"A fat lot you kids learn at school"
said the red-faced man with some
| heat
They didn't teach us those sort Of
things" said Pollyooly.
The red-faced man gazed at her
gloomily for minute; then he turned
on his heel, and went gloomily down
the stairs.
4 Pollyooly ran to the sitting-room
window and watched him leave the
building and the Inner Temple. She
thought 1t we'll to let the Honorable
John Ruffin know at once that the be-
5ieger had come; and, taking the
Lump, she went across to the Law
Courts, and informed him of the dan
ger. He thanked her, and babe her
be ready to signal to him at a quar-.
ter past four, if the red-faced man
was waiting to pounce on him. He
went back into the Court; and she
took the Lump to the gardens on the
Thames Embankment, and let him play
there for the rest of the morning.
When she returned to the Temple
at half-past one, there. knocking pa
tiently on the Honorable John Ruff
] fms oak, stood the red-faced man
AS e come in?' he said gloomily
II haven't seen him come in" sale
Pollyooly coldly, but with literal ac
curacy; and sshe and the Lump wen
into Mr.. Gedge- Tomkins's chambers
: Pollyooly was in quandary. Thei
dinner and her money we're in tn
chambers of the Honorable John Ruf
fin. She watched the red-faced mar
through the letter-box with growini
impotence. He seemed to her to b.
creature of the most painful per
I. sistence, for he stood there, rappinl
at intervals. for nearly twenty min
utes; and the Lump. usually the mos
: placid of children, was pulling at he
frock, and protesting that he wa
!, hungry. At last, to her great relief
the red-faced man bestowed three vic
, lent kicks on the Honorable John Rui
/ fms unoffending oak, and went heay
lily down the stairs. She was quic
!, getting the Lump into their own quar-
tiers and to his dinner. She resolve
to have the materials for that meal i
Mr.. Gedge-Tomkins' chambers for tn
future
At three o'clock the besieger returned
: and knocked for quarter of a
; hour; then he went away Poll,
dow and kept watch. At four o'cloc
! he came slouching gIoomily bacl
; Pollyooly ran for the signal tableclott
), and hung 1t out of the window. A
= quarter past four the Honorabl
!. John Rufin appeared at the mouth c
: the archway opposite. approaching hi
> home warily. AT the sight Of the 81.
: nal he paused, then came swift
:. across the Temple to the pavement b.
: low.
Where is he?" he said, hardly raj
Z ing his clear, carrying voice.
Il "On the landing" said Pollyooly.
{ Then please drop me down my h;
!. and stick, my angel watcher" sal
. the Honorable John Rufin.
~ Pollyooly made haste to drop thel
> out OF the window; he caught thel
: deity. slipped off his wig and cow
> went to the porter's lodge, left the
q there and walked brislsly out of I'll
! Tudor Street entrance. At half-pa
= four the red-faced man, who had bee
L waiting in sinister silence. began
= knock on the oak. At five and twen'
y minutes to five he was knockir
lightly; at twenty minutes to five
seemed to have lost his temper, II
;. he was interspersing violent blows c
Il the patient oak with even more vi
y lent kicks. At quarter to five
y went away. Pollyooly thought tn,
u they had done with him till the mo
row. She wronged his indefatigab
: soul; he was back again. and har
mering away, at seven O'Clock ar
again at eight. He may have returns
later, but Pollyooly was sleeping Il