# Miss Wetherell — A Bid for Fortune character guide

> Miss Wetherell in A Bid for Fortune by Guy Boothby.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Wetherell

**First appearance:** 0003-part-i-iii-i-visit-my-relations

## Snapshot

Phyllis Wetherell is the daughter whose abduction from a Pacific island turns a yachting idyll into a desperate manhunt.

## Who they are

As Lord Beckenham's daughter and the object of the narrator's protective devotion, Phyllis is carried exhausted from the undergrowth during a frantic escape, then handed to the captain's charge while the men row back for her missing father. Her terror for old Mr. Wetherell, and the narrator's refusal to risk her recapture, sharpen the stakes of the island search. She matters because her safety is the emotional engine driving the rescue party through the early-middle arc.

## In the story

### [I: I Determine to Take a Holiday—Sydney, and What Befell Me There](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-i-i-i-determine-to-take-a-holiday-sydney-and-what-befell-me-there)

The daughter of the Colonial Secretary, she is beautiful and kind. She remembers Hatteras's earlier kindness and confronts him about avoiding her on the ship.

### [II: London](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-i-ii-london)

Phyllis's father, mentioned as having given Hatteras a card and as being in London with Phyllis.

### [Conclusion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-ii-vi-conclusion)

Phyllis's father, who resigned his office and recounts his capture by Nikola.

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