Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-28

Vivian Matthews, 20, a doorstep
baby, Is known among the younger
set Of Bender, Kan, as a flat tire"
Wentworth Hillman Johns III, scion
of the wealthiest family in the town,
is TO marry Aurelia "Dovie" Jansen.
and learns she has married Count
Won Pepper in Paris. Through
with women" Kent, in order TO get
q million dollars willed to him by his
grandfather. providing he marries,
offers Vivian 100000 and a Paris
divorce in a year. If she will marry
him. He tells her frankly il is be-
cause he loved Dovie and wants to
marry someone who couldn't hurt
him.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHARTER v
Cuddles. consumed with curiosity
her door the next morning before
Vivian vas dressed. She burst in
like a young cyclone.
Gimme news Gimme the low
down"
She caught one look at Vivian,
red eyed and sleepless and sat down.
shaking q knowing head.
BY golly. a hangoverl You sure
look bleary-eyed this morning.
sweetheart. Must have been a large
evening"
Vivian shook her head negatively
hesitating to tell Cuddles anything
about what was ON her mind. yet
wanting. more than she had ever
wanted before, 10 confide in some
one.
mo. indeed. I haven't slept
that's all"
well. I expected that" Cuddles
giggled. III could see when you were
50 tongue-tied last evening that this
was all going 10 90 to your head
and cause insomnia and things
Suddenly Vivian surprised Cud-
dies. herself. into speechleSsness.
when she turned and looked az her
S%quarely-
You were right. Pat. He does
want TO marry me.
Cuddles opened her mouth to
speak-and gulped. Vivian smiled
and nodded.
This tongue ties ever you. does
MT IL? Well. it's the truth. Kent
worth Hillman Johns III has asked
to take in marriage Vivian Mat
thews' Bender's smallest social
light"
Pat was beside her in n moment,
her arns around her neck.
'Oh, my dear, / am SO glad. 7
know you love him. I am so glad
he loves you. too. Why. it's-like a
book"
Vivian stopped her with a light
laugh.
"Yeah--it's like a-book. all right.
But this loving me has nothing to
do with IT,"
Pat was mystified with Vivian
taking 1t in such an indifferent way.
Plainly she was puzzled and stun
ned, as Vivian told her as much as
she could OF Kent's wanting 10 mar
~ her. withholding the more impor-
tant details. She made it quite
clear. however. that II was to get
Grandfather Johns million dollars.
rat > ~4lEiICAlnlf AAiLAC lAtdAL IOQlQ
not begin TO understand how Vivian
could even entertain the idea Of
turning the proposition down. See
ing her own love of luxury and
clothes, and knowing what they
meant to a woman who had lived
her life or Broadway four years.
she could not conceal her amaze
ment at Vivian's hesitation
You're crazy. plain crazy" she
told her seriously. You love him.
Whether he loves you or not. what
does that matter? Maybe he will
! some day. Besides. you'll have all
that money. Believe me. honey.
clothes and things are all that mat
ter TO a una She can win any
man in two shoes If she has the
fine feathers 70 parade before his
nose"
Vivian did not tell Cuddles that
she was TO marry Kent for just a
year. What she did tell her she
knew she would keep. Cuddles was
loyal 70 the last drop Of the hat.
Luxury loving and flippant she
might be-but not catty or a tattle
tale.
Just as nearly every woman in the
world believes that she ran be beau
tiful and desirable III she has the
proper background, so Pat con.