Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-26
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Vivian Matthews, shy and un-
happy because she was a doorstep
baby, has few friends. Wentworth
Hillman Johns, because he has
been Tilted by "Dovie" Jansen. who
becomes the Countess Won Pepper,
and in order to secure his grand
fathers fortune. marries Vivian
with the understanding that at the
end Of the year they are to be di-
vorced and he viii give her one
hundred thousand dollars. In New
York she attracts Mann Barlow.
famous artist. and he flies 10 Ben
der, paints her and teaches her to
fly. "Dovie" returns. and in an
attempt TO get Kent into her net.
frames a New Years party 10 en-
barrass Vivian. Barlow Is furious,
and hints that he knew the coun-
tess In Paris. He admits he knew
her rs a notorious member Of the
art colony the next dav. and when
Vivian tells him te truth about her
marriage begs her to marry him
when she is free. She asks him 10
wait. Vivian makes her first solo
flight. and decides to celebrate with
q party. At the party she "vamps"
Kent into kissing her. and "Dovie"
leaves angrily. Later he knocks on
her boudoir and she sends him
away. The next morning he
breakfasts with her. and tells her
how "Doviep had been wronged by
the count.
Now Go On With the Story
CHAPTER xxx
Vivian wanted very much to tell
Kent what Barlow had told her
about Dovie and her wild escapades
IN Paris. But she knew she couldn't
do this without involving Mann ID
an UNPLEASANT situation.
Besides. there was little use IN
telling q man anything who was
as blinded as he seemed In be. II
Dcvie could make him believe the
wild story Of her marriage 10 Count
Won Pobper. she could make him
believe the earth was square.
She lay I'm bed. her thoughts in
a Junble-almost praying for some
way 70 help him. There was little
doubt in her mind but that Mrs.
Jansen and her daughter had come
straight 10 Bender as soon as they
heard Kent had inherited a million
dollars-purely for the purpose of
getting q large part Of IL. They
would stop at nothing.
II amazed her that they had no
money. She he'd ALWAYS thought
Of Aurelia Jansen as the heiress
70 the Jansen millions. Where had
all their money gone? SQuandered
III hig living abroad. probably.
They must have hit the HIGH spotsl
Kent hadn't mentioned the scene
Dovie had created when she ran
from the room the night before be-
cause he had kissed her. WHY had
he come to her room and knocked
on her door7 Could il be possible
that he was BEGINNING 70 be a lit
tie interested IN her?
But. she told herself. I led him
on. I made him kiss me. I threw
myself al him. No wonder he tried
20 come TO me. Any man would.
Suddenly she felt she had cheap
ened herself. and burned with en-
barraSSment. And what would
Mann think OF her kissing Kent
like that before other people? II
was vulgar.
She lay in bed so long that Ce-
leste tip-toed in quietly to see If
she was asleep.
ooh. madame. 7 was worry about
you. You are not seek?- Celeste
asked her when she saw she was
awake.
sick at heart" Vivian smiled
c~rookedly up at her.
He always make YOU unhappy
ze, ze grass skipperl Why he not
stav away?"
Celeste STAMPED her little foot
and her eyes blazed. Vivian laugh
ed at the funny little maid. The
worst thing she could think Of was
a grasshopper. Kent was certainly
not III favor. She had hated the
way Trey turned UP at every corner
one several inches long jumped In