Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-23

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Vivian Matthews, shy and I'M
happy, and called a flat tire" be-
lieving herself to be a doorstep baby,
married Wentworth Hillman Johns
III, to help him secure his grand
fathers fortune, with the under
standing that she is to have one
hundred thousand dollars, and a di-
vorce in Paris, at the end of the
year. But a cyclone wipes their
home and business 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 grand
daughter Of Johns land Kent is
an orphanage Waif. she SWearS her
mothers father, and Judge Potter,
to secrecy, and establishes Kent in
business with part Of her inherited
half million dollars. She is en-
gagged to marry Mann Barlow,
famous artist, : no has painted ner
and taught her to fly, when she is
free. Kent is to marry his old fl
ancee, who Tilted him. Bark re-
turns 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. Only a month of the mar
riage contract remains. Kent writes
Dovie a lengthy letter. Vivian flies
to Salina to see Celeste and buy a
new dress for the dinner at the
mayors house. At the dinner Wv
ian is 10 longer a "flat tire" and
Kent marvels at her poise and wit.
CNOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER LII
There was a letter with a New
York postmark waiting for Kent
when he and Wv n drove home
after the Lindbergh dinner. Vivian
went up to her room, and Kent sat
down in the living room to read it.
He opened it ~carelessly. But it
was a moment he was to remember
to the longest day he lived. 1t was
not a letter. 1t was a page Of a
newspaper. When he unfolded it,
and his eyes took in the pictures
that stared up at him and the great
Sunday paper headline that stretch
ed entirely across the page, the
world reeled about. him. Cold
sweat broke out on his brow as he
grasped its full significance.
MAD LITTLE DOVE AND HER
BOGUS COUNT"
The page blurred. A moment later,
when he could see, he looked more
closely at the pictures.
Dovie, in a slip of a bathing suit.
Dovie, in a drape. Dovie as a nude
statue Of an artist model. And there
was q subhead that read:
when the Gayest Little Ameri-
can of the Paris .lrt Colony and Her
Designing Mamma Got Paid Back in
Their Own Coin"
There was a picture of Mamma
Jansen, too. He brushed his Lands
across his eyes. and read on, dazed
and shaken. 1t was the true story
of Dovie Jansen and her marriage
to Count Won Pepper" A deriding,
typical Sunday thriller r. the yell
lowest journalism type.
There were pictures of three
wealthy men who had been taken
in" by Aurelia Jansen. Three poor
fish" who had been -orced to pay
huge sums Of money to Mamma
Jansen to keep out Of court when
she threatened to expose their re-
lations with her daughter. A pic
ture Of a little boy Covie had
struck when driving while intoxi-
Gated.
Blackmail! 1t was there in black
and white. A horrid, Lark, ugly
tale OF two women whose one OBJ
ject in life, for four years, seemed
to have been to get money in any
way possible.
Dovie-a crook! And she had
come back to Bender and made him
believe her. He, too, had been taken
into her net of lies. Only the loss
of his money had saved him from
being victimized by her.
And the Count" DOVES mar
riage had been a priceless joke OF
the art colony" They had hired
another crook to pose as royalty and
marry her. Mamma Jansen had
been so eager that, within twenty
four hours after the party where
Davie met the count she had con-
sented-or urged their marriage. It