Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-17

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Vivian Matthews marrieS Kent
worth Hillman Johns III to help
him get his grandfather's fortune
after he has been Tilted by his
childhood sweetheart. She believes
herself a doorstep baby, and is shy
and unhappy "flat tire" He Is
to pay her 100000, and give her a
Paris divorce at the end Of a year,
but a cyclone wipes his business
and home off the earth, and Wall
street takes his fortune. He is
forced to live with Vivian in her
little cottage while they serve out
their contract. She learns from a
mysterious visitor, who turns out
to be her mothers father, that Kent
is an o~rphanage baby, and that she
is the rightful heir of the Johns for
tune and worth a half million dol
lars. Her father was old Johns
son, and when he was killed in an
automobile accident, with Vivian's
mother, a dancer, Kent was estab-
lished in the home, and Vivian
placed in the Matthews home be-
cause the old man would have moth
ing off of the offspring of a stage
woman. Vivian swears the two old
men to secrecy, and plans to help
Kent. She buys an automobile bust
ness and makes Kent sole manager
secretly.
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CHAPTER XLVIII
II can't give you anything but
love, baby,
That's the only thing I've plenty
Of ba-a-bee-"
Kent was splashing in the chow
er, and Vivian, downstairs getting
breakfast, smiled to herself at his
noisy morning additions. How hap
py he seemed. And all because he
had a good chance to make a little
money in the new business that she
had made possible for him.
Il don't believe he thinks very
much about the loss Of all his money
and everything" she told herself,
happily, and mixed his favorite pam
cakes that had become ncr favoriteS
too.
He came down the stairs 10 steps
at a time, still singing Justify:
Butt can't give you anything
but love-"
"Ain't it the truth, darling" he
strobe into the kitchen. L can't
give you anything but love, and you
even Spurn me when I try to do
right by you and love you a little"
Shut up!" She made a little
face at him and Tipped a pancake
quite professionally. I don't crust you
city Slickers that have been to col
lege. I'm but a country maiden,
and I'll have none Of your monkey
shines"
Kent shrugged hopelessly at the
flushed girl bending over the pam
cakes. Her little h &c dress was
short, and he noticed, with some
thing Of a stalt, how shapely her
legs were. How they tapered down
to small ankles and dainty little
feet for a girl Of her height.
She turned and saw him looking
speculatively at her ankles. She
looked down quickly.
whats the latter"
He grinned-whiStled.
"Not a thing! Not a darn thing,
I should sayI On the contrary, I'd
never noticed how perfect they were
we're before"
Her face fl; med. To hide her
self consciousness she pretended an
ger, and set the pancakes on the
table with a thump. Kent roared
with amusement. She could blush
owe a little thing like that!
"Viv," he taurted impudently,
you look just liz you did that
night out a THE gate when I kissed
your hand"
That night! It was the night he
learned that Dovie had married an
other man-and he could speak of
it so lightly. She controlled her
embarrassment and looked at him.
He was still laughing-h- cly enjoy
ing the position he had placed her
in. Then she rememt ed how diff
ferently things had been a year be-
fore, and her embarrassment left her
at once.
She turned her back and her
shoulders shook. ke--t thought she
was crying. He was beside her In
a second.