Evening star., 1940-07-12

love with her. He had never men
toned marriage anything very
serious, as a matter of fact-but
that did not alter the fact that they
were in love with each other and
had been for nearly a year.
They had gone out together at
least once a week, gone to all the
! affairs at the country club and at
the yacht club and had made the
night spots in the city at least once
a month since that first night.
Dick Is Eligible.
Dick was good looking, intelligent,
well educated and had enough
money to support a wife comfortably.
His folks were quite wealthy and
socially established. All those things
weren't important, so far as Phyllis
was concerned, but none of them
were disadvantages-and in addi-
tion to them all, Dick was nice. He
said the right things, had a sense
of humor, and knew his way around.
He wasn't the best bond salesman in
town but he had the backing and
the cut-out future that would en-
able him to make plenty OF money
in the years to come.
And now he'd made a chump of
himself over a little pipsqueek like
Ada Burwick.
Phyllis didn't know much about
Ada except that she was the PAM
pered. baby-talking daughter of a
wealthy New York family. She was
! debutante, of course, and that, so
far as Phyllis was concerned, meant
only that she'd been put on the
auction block. Dick wouldn't have
agreed, but that made no difference.
How they had met, Phyllis still
didn't know for sure. She knew
only that very suddenly Dicks at
tentions had dropped off and word
had drifted to her, through a few
catty friends, that he had been seen
around town with Ada.
The first word had come almost
a month ago; the last had come
yesterday with an announcement in
the society column of the evening
paper that Richard Wieland, promi-
nent young broker and son of the
Mamaroneck Wielands, would be a
guest of Mrs. Oliver Burwick, who,
with her debutante daughter Ada,
was leaving on a South American
cruise Thursday aboard the luxury
liner Georgia.
Phyllis Makes
Decision.
Talk about going after a man.
Phyllis thought scathingly, this was
certainly the rawest demonstration
of cold-blooded campaigning she
had ever seen. And Dick-that was
what hurt-how in the world had
he ever been taken in by such a
nitwit as Ada? How many times
had he laughed with her at far less
obvious campaigns on the part of
debs cunning for their men? It was
too silly. He must have some other
motive-maybe he figured on get
ting some business out of her father.
Driving into the city, Phyllis be-
gan for the first time to consider
serious plan. Vaguely she had
thought, since bounding out of bed
this morning, of getting passage on
the Georgia herself and putting a
real crimp into Ada's program. But
she would have to be sure there
would be at least one attractive
male on board to use as a prop in
her campaign. One attractive man
tagging after her the whole trip
would bring Dick to his senses.
She parked her car in a garage
off Fifth avenue and walked down
the street looking in shop windows.
1t was 9 am. and the shops were
just opening. She stopped from
time to time to admire dress or
hat, then walked on until stopped
by another window display. One Of
them had a couple of male figures
dressed in outlandish, but apparent
ly fashionable attire. That's what
gave her the idea. An escort bureau
could solve her problem very nicely
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Tomorrow: Phyllis meets young
man with mind Of his own.