Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-01-27
BURILLA'S
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How Il Proved a Boomerang

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did not like Burilla Bischoff was due
almost entirely to Burilla herself.
Vance Edmonston epitomized the sit.
daAtsn when he declared that she
had polar temperament and an
equatorial temper, a remark which
Indirectly reached Burilla's ears ana
caused that young woman to VOW
vengeance upon Vance.
Vance had been at the Wave houss
only two weeks. He had given Up )
vacation the previous year because
Elsie Tabor was in Europe. What
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-
tentatious 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 it was Mrs.
Tabor's intention to land him for q
son-in-law before the season closed.
Elsie and Phelps were 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
Alya Wynn, however, the duo be-
came quartette and quartette that
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 a designer wage
Garner just as Vance Edmonston was
the manager of one of the branches
Of the Sixteenth National bank and
Taylor Phelps was multi-millionaire.
The rest of the permanent board
ers at the Wave house looked on In
giee at the maneuvers of Mrs. Tabor,
with the possible exception Of some
half a dozen mammals with eligible
daughters who wanted Phelps for their
own son-in-law
To their number was added B'i.
rilla, who had enjoyed a 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 be
polite to say that Burilia deliberately
spied upon the quartette. but 1t was
certain that she almost invariably
found herself in their vicinity with.
out making her presence unduly prom
inent. She was soft of movement
and she wore dresses of the soft,
clinging kind that did not rustic.
Burilla was always called upon
for parlor entertainment at the week
1y 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 pet chari-
~, and Burilla was to be made the star.
'Tn 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 Offering
It does not require much to excite
a group Of bored summer so1ourners.
and when ut last Burilla tripped out
upon the improvised stage hush fell
over the crowd following the buzz OF
whispering that preceded her en-
trance.
IT will offsr an original monologue
entitled ON the PORCH" announced
Burilla, 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 a clever mimic,
and SO closely did she copy the voices
of the four that names were unneces-
sary. For the first time the rest O.,
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 Bischoff spoiled the little sur
prise In store for you" she said,
az the guests crowded into the supper
room. 81 think it most suitable
match. and l am almost as much
pleased over Mr.. Phelps engagement.
He has been almost like son to me
since his mother died."
she swept on, leaving the quartette
shocked by cross current OF Won
der and Joy. For a moment they stared
s,to aoch others faces. then with one