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 th-t she is to have
500, 600 and q divorce in Paris, at
the end of the year. But : cy-
clone wipes their home and busl-
ness away, and w street sweeps
the fortune. Vivian insists upon
Kent staying with her in the lit
tie Matthews cottage, aid when
she learns that she is the rightful
Johns heir-the granddaughter OF
Johns /, and Kent is an orphanage
waif, she swears her moth S faith
err, 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 fiaEcee, who Ult-
ed him. Bark eturnS to New York,
and Patricia Sullivan receives a
wire from him in the effe that
he has secured z part in a show
for her. Vivian is jealo . Only
a month of the marriage contract
remains.
NOW GO G.. WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER L
Kent john, lying awake # into
the night, was a thoughtful young
man.
What was he to 90? Surely ID
young n in the world had ever
been such a fool. How was he to
write DOVE and tell her hat he
had lost every penny he had III
the world and had ben dependent
upon Vivian fo' the very roof over
his head? Y.
Would : OWE want to come ba@k
to Bender and Ike a home for
him? They N1uld have to start out,
lust as he and Vivian were living
now, in re. DOVE WoUIo
have to do he own work.
Then there was ne $4,000 ne
owed Vivian. It would take years
even at the rate he expected to
make none. in his business, to
nav her all of that. How would
DOVE take at? She 7ould hsI re
to be TOLD, of course. 1t was like
having to pay one woman alimony
and have the other woman sacrifice
to pay it.
Poor little DOVE! What 2 raw
deal she hG from life. What a
tragic thing! He though OF the
story she had told him OF being
framed by Z. unit Won Pepper into
her unf tunate marriage, with
murder in his heart.
He had a ; ter from Dovie that
day. He turned on the reading
light and read it again. Thel were
parts thc he did not like. But
he void have to teT her-and he
loved him and she would under
stand. T ere was especially one
sentence:
care you sure, sweetheart, that
you have plenty to live on over
here all our lives? I just couldn't
live in America, ycI know. 1t is
such a strp.d place I hate a small
town"
He assumed that the Jansans had
quite fortune, too. But, of
course, he would not touch any
of DOVES wy.
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 / lie
house forever. 1t seemed hardly
ssib4e 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 lace with
the coming of their divorce it was
such a disturbing thought that he
put it out Of his mind? Would II
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