Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18

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Vivian Matthews, shy and I'M
happy, and called a FLAT tire" be-
lieving herself to be a doorstep baby,
marries Wentworth Hillman Johns
III, to help him secure his grand
fathers fortune, with the under
standing that she is to have one hun
dred thousand dollars, and a divorce
in Paris, at the end Of the year. But
a cyclone wipes their nome and bust
ness away, and Wall Street sweeps
the fortune. Vivian insists upon
Kent staying with her in the little
Matthews cottage, and when she
learns that she is the rightful Johns
heir-the granddaughter Of Johns I,
and Kent is an orphanage waif, she
sWearS her mothers father, and
Judge Potter to secrecy, and estab-
fishes Kent in business with part Of
her inherited half million dollars.
She is engaged to marry Mann Bar
kow, famous artist, who has painted
her and taught her to fly, when she
is free. Kent is to marry his old
fiancee, who Tilted him. Bark returns
to New York, and Patricia Sullivan
receives a wire from him to the
effect that he has secured a part in
a show for her. Vivian is Jealous.
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CHAPTER XIX
Bender had been watching the
romance of the town flat. tire and
the Johns scion through the months
with bated breath.
At first there was amaZement,
criticism, gossip. all kinds of specu-
lation. When Mann Barlow was
seen with Vivian SO much, even the
few who had stood by her began
to have their doubts.
When Dovie Jansen came back
from Paris, and was seen fire.
quently with Kent, the town was
on it's toes with curiosity. Had
Vivian or Kent cared to notice, they
would have seen, very plainly that,
socially, their actions were putting
them outside the pale of Bender So
ciety.
But, after the cyclone and Vivian's
heroic fight through the storm for
doctors, as far as she was concerned,
she was vindiacted. A score Of peo-
ple owed their lives to her. When
Dovie Jansen and her mother went
back to Paris, and Kent settled down
to work. living with Vivian in the
little Matthews cottage, just as
nearly every man and woman in the
town were forced to live, the neigh
bors decided that it was a love
match, after all.
Kent went whistling to his work.
The rich young Johns-forced to
knuckle down to working for some
one else. No one felt sorry that he
had lost his money. 1t was a work
ing mans town. He was big and
strong, and was no worse off than
many Of them.
1t was a surprise to the business
men Of the city when the Frankfort
company one day changed its
sign to read.
"The K. H. Johns Motor Co."
Vivian walked past it for the first
time. She had made it possible!
What would Kent say if he knew?
He wouldn't have let her do 1t, she
smiled, and went on to the market
to buy vegetables.
She was hunming happily. in
srecting the fresh greens that Kent
liked so much. when a tug at her
elbow caused her to turn. 1t was
the MAYORS wife. Mrs. John Ster-
ling. with a basket on her arm.
MY dear Mrs. Johns. how are
YOU after all your excitement?
why, everything is lovely, Mrs.
Sterling. Celeste, maid. is get
ting along nicely, and will be out of
the hospita1 soon. I'm chief cook
and bottle washer now"
Mrs. Sterling beamed on her, and
patted her arm.
"We're so proud of you, Mrs.
Johns! I was just saving to John
Yesterday we'd have to have you and
your husband to dinner soon, and
show YOU our appreciation of what
you did, in a small way. at least"
Vivian was her most charming
self-if q bit unwilling to admit that
she was a heroine.
''That would be lovely. Kent
would like itt too, I'm sure. But,