Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14
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Vivian Matthews, shy and un-
happy because she was a doorstep
baby, and called a flat tire" mar
ries Wentworth Hillman Johns III,
secretly loving him, to help him get
his grandfather's fortune. She is
to have a Paris divorce and $780,
900 at the end of a year. but a
cyclone and the stock market COM
bine to wipe Kent's fortune off the
earth. A mysterious lawyer calls
and takes Vivian to old Judge Pot
ter'S office, where she is to learn
the truth about her birth.
She learns the stranger is her
mothers father, and that she is the
granddaughter of Wentworth Hill
man Johns I. Her parents were
killed in an automobile accident,
and Kent is, in reality, but an or
phanage baby, chosen to fill the
sons place, because Vivian'S mother
was a dancer and old Johns would
not recognize the offspring OF a
stage woman. He had paid Martha
Matthews to take Vivian in and
say she had found her on her door
step.
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CHAPTER XIV
Her grandfather walked home
with her and went inside Just long
enough to take her in his arms and
kiss her goodbye. He had to leave
on the next train. They promised
to write often, and Vivian waved
a fearful goodbye to him. 1t was
hard to see him go so soon.
When she lay down IN her room
all sorts of emotions seized her.
Sometimes she was certain 1t was
a dream, and that she would wake
up and laugh at herself.
Things seemed in such a middle
that it seemed impossible that they
could ever be Strengthened. She re-
membered that she had promised
Bark that she would go to New
York soon-then to Paris and marry
him-with dread. What would her
grandfather say?
But, worse still, what would he
think Of a granddaughter who mar
ried a man for a hundred thousand
dollars-and agreed to divorce him
in q year? She ached with the
realization that, in all fairness, she
should explain it all to him when
she left Kent. ~
Poor Kent. She felt that it would
be the end of him in his present
state Of mind if he found out the
truth about himself. But, she
thought again, with a touch Of
pride that thrilled her, that she had
nothing to be ashamed of in marry
ing him-or any other man. She
was a Johns. Blue blood and a fine
old southern family background on
her mothers side. She remembered
now what it was her grandmother
reminded her of. 1t was the pictures
she had seen of old Kentucky colo
nels. He even said Eyes, suh," as
they did. How adorable he was
and how glad he seemed that she
was his Glory's girl.
She heard the front door slam
downstairs, and Kent shouted to her,
I'm UP here" she called back,
trying to Straighten her hair and
wondering in a panic if he could
tell the strain she had been through.
She moved over to the big chair
and picked up her sewing basket.
Hello he threw himself in a
chair near here. Where you been
all afternoon"
Pooling around" She did not
look at him.
"Viv"-he leaned over and looked
closely at her, what's the matter
with you? You've been crying"
Sure have" She knew better
than to deny that she had wept
so she tried to make light of it
"All women are weepers. I got tc
thinking about all my nice clothes
all gone up in the cyclone, and
got sentimental about it."
She didn't realize it was n OF
the worst things she could have
said. His face blanched.
"Oh, honey-that's too bad. And
oh, what a rotten failure I am.
can't buy you others. I can't ever
pay my bills"
Vivian choked with disgust fol
herself that she had been so stupid
and with pity for him.
why Kent, II ! ever hear you
say a thing like that again-Iu-