Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-13

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Vivian Matthews, shy and un-
happy because she was a doorstep
baby, Is called a flat tire" by the
younger set Of Bender. Wentworth
Hillman Johns III, TO Secure his
grandfather's fortune, offers her
one hundred thousand dollars and a
divorce in Paris at the end Of a year
if she will marry him and, secretly
In love with him she consents. In
New York Vivian attracts Mann
Barlow, famous artist, and he flies
to Kansas to paint her. Aurelio
"Dovie" Jansen, who Tilted Kent TO
marry Count Won Pepper in Paris,
has returned mysteriously without
her count. She has a frank talk with
her mother about ways and means
Of getting Kent back into her net
again.
While Vivian is posing IN the
stunning white flying outfit Barkcw
has brought her, Dovie calls At the
house and is met and thoroughly
upset by Pat" Sullivan. Vivian's best
girl friend and a former chorus Girl.
Mrs. Jansen. alarmed ut the news
Dovie brings back of the changed
Vivian. decides to call on Kent and
fix things" Vivian sees Kent GO 10
the Jsnsens that highland sends
for Barlow. He is puzzled, but CON-
forting and ~flattering.
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CHAPTER XIX
They had agreed to 60 their sepa-
rate ways-doing as they pleased
and so Vivian knew she had no right
TO question Kent about his three
hours at the Jansens'.
She longed, like any jealous wife,
to rave at him and demand that he
stay away from Dovie. But why
should she? In her saner moments
she admitted to herself that she had
absolutely no right, by their agree
ment. to fight against 1t. Kent'S life
was TO be bis own after their year
was up--and what difference did Il
make to her what he did? Let him
make an utter fool out Of himself.
Blind idiot II amazed her that he
could not see through DOVES stlam.
Vivian knew II was rude Of her to
leave Mann so suddenly when he
had been so kind to her. But she
felt he would understand and for
give any mood she might have. II It
were not for Mann aud Pat and
Celeste she would 90 mad. How
loyal and good they all werel
No posing this afternoon" Mann
met her at the door the next day
with a broad smile Of greeting. SIS
though nothing had happened. I'VE
r going for a nice long sky jaunt.
1t is a glorious flying day"
She caught his hands gratefully
and said nothing. He understood
that she was thanking him word
leSSly for his understanding. Bar
kow felt that Vivian would tell him
some day what was making her so
unhappy-and so bided his time. He
was actually getting a great kick out
OF living for q time In the little
western town. He almost hated TO
think of ever leaving It. He smiled
when he thought that everyone ex-
pected him In Paris and how they
would chide him II they knew he
had settled down for the winter I'm
the wide open spaces. They would
think. Of course. that Il was n
woman. And the more he saw of
Vivian, the more he wondered what
it was about her that attracted him
70 her.
She wasn't gay. She wasn't at all
the sort Of girl he had always gone
around with. But there was some
thing smouldering there In those
green. fascinating eyes. Sometimes
he believed that II vas her eyes that
drew him-the artist In him. He
only knew he wanted to be with her
and that was sufficient reason for
a man who had plenty Of money and
did not have to worry about where