Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-08
THE WASTER
BY JAMES FRENCH DORRANCE
Drawings by J. p. Masters

voice and manner combining an unn1s-
taxable sheer
A flush mounted to Young Bruxton's
temples; but he did not rise from his ndo-
lent position. think costly piece
: of office furnitureo" he asked.
you're costly-but furniture in
J my office, snapped Bruxton, Sr. @See me
~ later Lakewood
III Somewhat hurriedy the superintendent
y quilted the room.
"Got your message at the club re-
marked the son. adjusting his chair until op
poste the desk @You are late Governor.
As the two faces confronted each other alike in
outline, remarkably dssimar in expression ndigna
ton began to control that of the older man.
I'm Late am r. he exploded. after struggling
ment in an effort for speech presume it worries
for me to be late! Your fine of punctuaity is
doubtless offended eh? Say, young man. have you ia
tigued your overworked brain to formulate any idea
why solicited this interview"
IL suppose it's something about that dinner Of mine
last night, said the indierenty. "But tell me,
what's the other name of this fellow Fiske on whom
you've got the Bulge
Something about that dinner, eh?' mimcked the
old gentleman. "And what's the name of this fellow
Fiskee Have you seen the morning papers,"
Selling sheaf OF newspapers from his desk the angry
lected at random and with concentrated scorn
shouted certain headlines aloud:
TUH xT aG6N PVT At PR 5S SHELL
FOR EACH FAIR DANCER
aNow, Governor, YEARLY placated the younger man,
cost only three hundred EACH What Fiske is this who
is building the Glendale works for nothing?r
Bruxton ST., thought better of induging in an apo
pectc stroke: aConfound your elegant persistence"
he cried. @Fiskes first is William, if you must
know"
II feared as much Say don't be too hard on Billy
Fiske, Governor Billys Of the Woodworking sort
you like Worked his way through college, and has
made every cent Of his small capital
3Then he should not have tried to play the contract
game with 1t is business poker for table stakes,
and happens that in this particular game hold the
cards. Realizing all at that he had been diverted,
the old man grew indignant with himself.
3Weve come to parting of the ways, my son. he be-
gan firmly. "Ive done my best by you. Next to your
dead mother I've loved you better than anything on
earth There came disturbing culver in his voice;
you chance after chance: They threw you out Of
preparatory school, and l bought you into another.
When they wouldn't let you finish at Yale declared
that college degree not worth the sheepskn
my Office but you wouldn't work. I tried you in this
business and that, winkng at your failures gave you
good name, Kenneth Bruxton but who knows you
except as Turtle? Turtle-a meal ticket for
chorus girls, Santa Claus of the Great White Way!
Turtle Bruxton-you-
IL tell you the papers all mixed up that dinner
Governor, interrupted young Bruxton hurt look in
vading the indifference of his gray eyes, "You know
how they exaggerate everything do. The bills won't
be"
@The bills will be the last pay" cried Buxton Sr
ave done my best with you and failed Not penny
more shall you have outside of the hundred month
your mothei left you! Now go-and don't come back
until you've made than society fool Of yourself.
Go, you-you-'
The old man choked over the word that he had tried
to mouth before, then pulling himself up his full
height and gazing at his boy
with all the majesty of the
broken pride of his life, he ~
bravely hurled it forth. <fF -
"Now 60 you waster" Per- 6%4<&a