The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-12-31
BURILLA'S
REvENG
How 1t Proved Q Boomerang

That the girls at the Wave house
did not like Burilla Bischoff was due
almost entirely to Burilla herself.
Vance Edmonston epitomized the sit
uation when he declared that she
had polar temperament and All
equatorial temper, a remark which
indirectly reached Burilla's ears and
caused that young woman TO vow
vengeance upon Vance.
Vance Mad been at the Wave house
only two weeks. He had given up his
vacation the previous year because
Elsie Tabor was in Europe. VIVA.
was vacation without Elsie?
This season he had four weeks at
the shore. The Wave house was an
ultra fashionable hotel adopting the
more quiet designation through os-
teLatious modesty. Vance hated the
place. but Mrs. Tabor had settled
herself there for the summer and
thither he went.
The chances are that Mrs. Tabor
would have left on his arrival, for
she was not minded to permit an in
eligible person like Vance any greater
opportunity than she could help,
but Taylor Phelps was also a guest
at the Wave house, and 1T was Mrs.
TabOr's intention to land him for a
son-inlaw before the season closed.
Elsie and Phelps We're good
friends, and Mrs. Tabor made the
best of bad situation by hoping that
Vance's attentions might spur
Phelps on TO greater enterprise. So
far the young millionaire had seemed
content to idle along with Elsie as
the companion of his sailing and mo-
toring trips.
With the arrival OF Vance and of
Alva Wynn, however, the duo be-
Burilla particularly despised. They
frankly showed that they had no de-
sire for further additions to the lit
tie company and Miss Bischoff raved
inwardly while her outward demon
STATIONS of friendship were as pro-
fuse as they were insincere.
Alva Wynn was designer, wage
Garner just as Vance Edmonston was
the manager of one of the branches
OF the Sixteenth National bank and
Taylor Phelps was a multi-millionaire.
The rest of the permanent board
ers at the Wave house looked on in
glee at the maneuvers of Mrs. Tabor,
with the possible exception OF some
half dozen mammas with eligible
daughters who wanted Phelps for their
own son-inlaw.
TO their number was added Blu
rilla. who had enjoyed monopoly
of Phelps company before the arrival
of the Tabors.
That this was largely due to the
fact that Phelps was too lazy to seek
to evade her schemes Burilla could
not realize. and she was convinced
that Elsie Tabor had cut her out,
When Vance added to the score by
his apt description, she gave herself
no rest in her search for vengeance.
But three weeks passed before the
opportunity came. 1t would not Do
spied upon the quartette, but it was
certain that she almost invariably
found herself in their vicinity with
o>l making her presence unduly prom.
inent. She was soft Of movement
and she wore dresses of the soft,
clingng kind that did not rustic.
Burilla was always called upon
for parlor entertainment at the week.
ly hops and other functions, and now
she planned to put to use her mimic
gifts
Some of the leaders OF the fash
ionable set were getting up an enter
tainment for the benefit of a pet chart
", and Burilla was to be made the star
In an Entirely New Offering" was
the announcement upon the hand
painted posters that advertised the
event upon the piazza, and very mys-
FERROUS was Burilla when questioned
regarding her new o1erng
It does not require much to excite
\ group of bored summer sojourners,
aud when at last Burilla tripped out
upon the mprovised stage hush fell
over the crowd following the buzz of
whispering that preceded her en-
trance.
Il will offer an original monologue
entitled On the Porch announced
Burila, and forthwith she plunged
into a little monologue in which, de-
spite the substitution OF other names,
the entire summer colony recognized
the quartette.
Burilla was really clever mimic,
and SO closely did she copy the voices
of the four that names were unneces-
sary. For the first time the rest OF
the colonists realized that Phelps
loved Alva Wynn and that Vance Ed
monston was determined to marry
Elsie.
All eyes were turned upon Mrs.
Tabor, but that woman wrested tri-
umph from defeat.
Miss Bischon spoiled the little sur