B00C4I7LJE EBOK by Skone-Palmer Robin

Author:Skone-Palmer, Robin [Skone-Palmer, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

18

Monday morning we packed up and left the Playboy Club-Hotel in Lake Geneva. I felt sort of sad. It had turned out to be a good time, as Karen predicted.

I’m gonna put those tennis lessons to good use, I told myself as I settled into my seat on the airplane. It was fun, and a tennis racquet was a lot more portable than a set of golf clubs.

I actually slept on the plane, which was good, because with the two-hour time change I still had an afternoon’s work ahead of me. Maria was happy to have me back and eager for all the news. Like Phyllis, she always hoped that I would “meet someone nice.” I don’t know what good that would’ve done. In all likelihood I’d never see him again.

“You have to get ready for Las Vegas,” she told me as she opened the office bags. Maria was very proprietary about the office bags. “You leave day after tomorrow.”

She immediately began replenishing supplies, mostly the photos and books Phyllis used as thank-you gifts.

Maria kept talking to me—or perhaps herself—as she checked both staplers. “I must fill those up,” she said, setting them aside. She carefully wrapped a rubber band around a box of paper clips. “You have to be careful about the paper clips. If the rubber band comes loose, they get all over the suitcase.”

“Okay. I’ll be more careful.”

“How do you go through so many scratch pads?” she asked.

“No idea.”

“I’ll have to order more. Did you like the Playboy Club-Hotel?”

I filled her in on the overall picture.

“I’m glad you had such a good time. It’s good that you enjoy the travel.” Maria apparently had no desire to go anywhere but between her apartment and Phyllis’s house.

That evening at home I emptied my suitcase and stuffed two weeks’ worth of dirty clothes into the washer. The next day, Phyllis taped a Sonny and Cher Show in L.A. Thankfully, Karen had returned from Hawaii and went with her, so I was able to spend the day organizing the correspondence that had come in while we were gone.

Las Vegas would not be hectic, and I had begun to really enjoy the travel-with-no-work gigs. If we could just spend all our time in Las Vegas, I’d be a very happy secretary!

I verified the plane and limo reservations and made sure I had the contract in my briefcase. A quick glance at the contract told me the Riviera was paying Phyllis $50,000 a week. A week! That was more money than I would earn in many years. She told me not to discuss it with anyone, which made me think that she was being paid more than other entertainers—something, perhaps, the hotel wouldn’t want known in that very competitive business.

My suitcase held all my summer clothes and a couple of bathing suits. August isn’t the choice time to be in Las Vegas unless you want to spend all your time by the pool or gambling, both of which are best done in moderation. Phyllis and Warde stayed in the house she owned.

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