Evening star., 1920-02-22
THE PART WARY MISSED

wheh Brick Hogan and the Hon. Hi le
'"o CIVIC virtues down q dark alley an,
s'ossed her with a piece Of lead pine.
sood-sized. well built, nice-ap
pearin' young chap. II. Warren Blxby
put kind Of slow-motioned and opiet
's'k'h. i always had him sized up a.
oead one, Anyway. mostly ossifet
"DoVe the ears Maybe that was he
cause hed made such a poor stab at the
various Things he'd tried since he came
Ao"'e from college. Law was what he
lacked first, but after three or four tries
at the Regents exams without any IA
aoie report from Albany, he sort OF
'eheo MS entry as one of the COM
ing legal lights of Westchester county.
ana expected that was a hard dose
LOT the Hon. Hiram Bixby to swallow
I~u KNOW, an only son and all that.
ou' "heh Wary couldn't tell tort
from nolens volens the old man got
nun into bond house in town where
"0 iasted all of three weeks. Then he
gave the life insurance game a whirl
i"at was Warry's star performance, I
UNDERSTAND. The way they tell 1t he was
set 10 canvassin' district over in Mont
''a'r. Looked like a good field, all right,
aI"ohs all them swell commuters. and
wary starts out loaded down with an
al"lul OF literature and blanks. How
s"ou'o ne know that the territory had
"'eh raked with a fine tooth comb by
.Apel's' Most likely he did his best.
wv ou' at the end of five days all he'd
!'terViewed had been buffers and mar
'or maids and he hadn't been able to
S"o" single party where to sign on the
dotted line.
FINALLY nc gets desperate 1t was one
"i'efhoon about o'clock when he'd
eee'' shunted away from twenty-seven
.'on' aoors in succession and his feet
nuft nm. Way back from the road
.'oush was big double -brea sted stone
"ouSe' and when the maid tries tn shut
nm out as usual he puts his foot n
the door. avn III
,,,.. see here.' says he. II simply
u.' see the man of the house. It.s
mighty important"
very well, SIR" says the cir, "1u
tell him." s"' III
IN couple Of minutes sbe oo,,
back and says that the master.s uons'
sorry. but he's too busv ~ -, .ey
Just then NC sec"
10 eh?" says Wary. "Wbat the
'iazes Is he SO busy about"
maid Gays 'he
"ooa work" says Wary. Here
give MIN these blanks. Hs,u ra.a
one IN minute and I have M no.
for EN-" Nv use
"hich might have been almost
.,e'er OF Wary only it happens that
the man who was presented u,ith a
year supply Of Shawn paper was
vice president Of the company Wary
was supposed to be workin' for So
"hen the story got around II pot
good many laughs, but IL didn,t ba,n
poos' II. "arren's stock az a business
man. I'll bet when the Hon. ri
heard 1t he turned turkey red c,e.r
up INTO his white banker side-whis-
Aers. Anyway he called Off Wharry,s
outsioe career and made him sort
OF assistant Office boy at the First
national in Rockhurst the Sound
and let it ride at that.
Not that Wary was an absolute
hivver at everything. They saw he
plays good game Of golf, can drive
stripped roadster almost we'll
enough to qualify for a Vanderbilt
cup race, can roll the spotted bones
so that others in the game must read
EN- and weep. and knows all the
latest shimmey steps for these new
jazz tunes In fact, he's a popular
young gent in the country club set.
All Of which don't help get him in
right at home. Hardly. The Hon.
HI. Bixby's notion Of spendin' a per-
fectly good evenin' 10 to sit in his
libr'y and plot out how to unload '
ten acres of swamp land on out-of- I
town investors. or figure how he can =
squeeze mortgagor so he can fore i
close on a corner lot. And he can't
See why Wary shouldn't be content a
ID to do the same. S
Course. I'm just givin' YOU my :.
'ough guesses on the status quo in :.
The Bixby family. Me and the Hon !"
HI. have run up against one another
more or less in town affaira as NAV