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Updated: May 27, 2025
But down below them, along the edge of the stream, for the second time in this story, a little dripping figure was tottering homeward. The little man was crying the hot tears mingling on his cheeks with the undried waters of the Wastrel crying with rage, mortification, weariness. Cup Day.
In a few minutes we'll pass the house up there on the hill where I was born, and where my people have lived for nearly a century. Strangers live there now and look at me! I am about to show myself to them ragged and poverty-stricken, a wastrel and a beggar. Colonel Coltrane, I'm ashamed to do it. I want you to let me wear your coat and hat until we are out of sight beyond.
I tried a flying shot at the others as they raced away like magic things through the grass, which climbed half-way up their flanks, but it was lead wasted that time. My coffee-coloured retainer gathered up the spoil, and paid me a compliment concerning my shooting, though well I knew he had sized me up as a "wastrel" with a rifle, for his shy eyes gave the lie to his oily tongue.
Sam'l took him up bodily and carried him down the slope to the Wastrel, shaking him gently as he went. Across the stream he put him on his feet. "If I catches yo' cadgerin' aroun' the farm agin, little mon," he admonished, holding up a warning finger; "I'll tak' yo' and drap yo' in t' Sheep-wash, I warn yo' fair. I'd ha' done it noo an' yo'd bin a bigger and a younger mon.
Why should that invertebrate wastrel have turned up to plague us so?" Some time had elapsed before we got the horses harnessed, because they objected strenuously, and several branching trails crossed the prairie, so we spent a much longer time than I liked in driving through the bitter cold before we found my late accuser sitting under a copse of willows, and apparently awaiting his death.
If the word 'Wastrel, for instance, appears on the contents bills of the Daily Mail one morning as a name for the Progressives during a County Council election, a passenger riding on an omnibus from Putney to the Bank will see it half-consciously at least a hundred times, and will have formed a fairly stable mental association by the end of the journey.
"I have an appointment with that wee wastrel of a man-of-law, McKinstrie, down at the Foulds. He is coming express-like from Cairnryan to meet me and it's me that will have to pay for his time!" Whereupon the spy opened out his case and the great man of horses and beeves listened intently.
A pensive and graceful Oriental lies under the rose-tree with his wine-pot and his scroll of poems. It may seem strange that any one's thoughts should, at the moment of regarding him, fly back to the dark bedside where the doctor doles out brandy. It may seem stranger still that they should go back to the grey wastrel shaking with gin in Houndsditch.
If it were possible to establish the death of the wastrel he was personating he would perhaps allow his "father" to live on in this new-found happiness; but if the real D.V.W. were alive some effort must be made to help him out of the slough perhaps to bring him back. He would try to find out through Frank Gardner.
The old Squire eyed it. "H'm, he don't seem flourishing." "Don't abuse a bird that's come twelve miles in a bag on purpose to cheer you up. He's a match for anything you can bring." "Tuts, man, he's dull no colour nor condition. Get along with 'ee; I wouldn' ask a bird of mine to break the Sabbath for a wastrel like that." Sir Harry drew out a shagreen-covered case and opened it.
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