Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-19

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
grandfather's fortune, with the I'M
derstanding that she is to have
500, 600 and a divorce in Paris, at
the end Of the year. But Q cy-
clone wipes their home and bust
ness away, and Wei street sweeps
the fortune. Vivian insists upon
Kent staying with her in the lit
tie Matthews cottage, ard when
she learns that she is the rightful
Johns heir-the granddaughter Of
Johns /, and Kent is an Orphanage
Waif, she swears her mothc IS faith
er, and Judge Potter, to secrecy,
and establishes Kent in business
with part of her inherited half mil
lion dollars. She IS engaged to
marry Mann Barlow, famous art
ist, who has painted her and taught
her to fly, when she is free. Kent
is to marry his old fiarcee, who Jilt-
ed him. Bark eturnS to New York,
and Patricia Sullivan receives a
wire from him to the effe that
he has secured a. part in a show
for her. Vivian is jealo. N. Only
a month of the marriage contract
remains.
NOW GO or WITH THE STORY)
CHAPTER L
Kent Johns, lying awake f. into
the night, was a thoughtful young
man.
What was he to DO? Surely 10
young MI in the world had ever
been such a fool. How was ne to
write Dovie and tell her that he
had lost every penny he had III
the world and had been dependent
upon Vivian fc- the very roof over
his head? II.
Would j OWE want to come back
to Bender and Ike a home for
him? They would have to start out,
lust as he and Vivian were living
now. in & 5st ne. Dovie would
have to do he own work.
Then there was the $4,000 he
owed Vivian. 1t would take years
even at the rate he expected to
make none. in his business, to
pay her all Of that. How would
DOVE take that? She vould have
to be told, of curse. 1t was like
having to pay one woman alimony
and have the other woman sacrifice
to pay it.
Poor little DOVE! What a raw
deal she hal from life. What a
tragic thing! He though Of the
story she had told him Of being
framed by Count Won Pepper into
her unfl tunate marriage, With
murder in his heart.
He had a Liter from Dovie that
day. He turned on the reading
light and read it again. Their were
parts thct he did not like. But,
he would have to tell her-and 3he
loved him and she would under
stand. Trere was especially one
sentence:
care YOU sure, sweetheart, that
you have plenty to live on over
here all our lives? ! just couldn't
live in America, you know. 1t IS
such a stupid place I hate a small
town"
He assumed that the Jansans had
quite fortune, too. But, OF
course, he would not touch any
of Dovie's J "n3y.
Across his thoughts Of Dovie,
Vivian would stray very often, and
he would remember her in her lit
tie house dresses, working about the
little cottage. Bending over the
stove, making pancakes for him.
Baking pies.
He had never known such a wom-
derful girl, he thought often. He
loved Dovie. But what was it he
felt for Vivian? Sometimes he al
most thought he could 60 on living
like they were living in the Ii lie
house forever. 1t seemed hardly
r 5sible that they could separate
and go til ir ways in a few DAYS.
When he would suddenly realize
that they would have the gossip
and criticism of Bender 10 face with
the coming Of their divorce it was
such a disturbing thought that he
put it out of his mind? Would it
hurt his business?
There was one thing he was glad
Of. If he married Dovie he would
get the blame. Vivian would not
be criticized. There must be moth