Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-16

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Vivian Matthews marries Kent
worth Hillman Johns III to help him
get his grandfather's fortune after
he has been Tilted by his childhood
sweetheart. She believes herself a
doorstep baby, and is shy and I'M
happy-a flat tire" He is to pay
her one hundred thousand dollars,
and give her a Paris divorce at the
end of a year, but a cyclone wipes
his business and home off the earth,
and Wall Street takes his fortune.
He is forced to live with Vivian in
her little contract. She learns from
a mysterious visitor, who turns out
to, be her mothers father, that Kent
is an orphanage baby, and that she
is the rightful heir Of the Johns for
tune and worth a half million dol
lars. Her father was old Johns son,
and when he was killed in an auto
mobile accident, with Vivian's moth
er, a dancer, Kent was established
in the home, and Vivian placed in
the Matthews home because the old
man would have nothing Of the Off
spring Of a stage woman. Vivian
swears the two old men to secrecy,
and plans to help Kent.
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CHAPTER XLVII
"How's your grandpap?" he asked
her. then. Hear from him?"
Every day. Wonderful letters. I
wish~he were here"
He's a great old boy," the Judge
approved. heartily. You'll be goin'
to live with him when you and Kent
smash up, and your contract is
over, I take it."
Can you keep another s~ecret?"
She smiled at him. then, a little tim
idly. A little afraid to tell him.
If 1 can't, lot of folks in this town
is certainly out o luck" he accord
ed. raising his hand in an oath.
well, I am going to marry Mr..
Barkow-the artist who was here
this summer" She looked at him
shrewdly for signs of disapproval.
Judge Potter turned his back and
walked to the window. She could
not see the shocked look on his
face. So that affair had gone pretty
far, after all! No wonder people
talked. But when he came back he
took her hand.
Il jes believe, Mercedes Glory
Vivian Johns, what I told you before.
There's a teller up there where the
sun shines takes care O. His own.
I don't worry a bit about you. You
got the right kind of stuff and you'll
do what's right, and some day you
amt going to have a care in the
world"
She smiled at him-touched and
amused, and placed a quick kiss on
the old wrinkled cheek.
well, guardian angel. 1 hope
you're right. Anyway, you have me
all cheered up-and I think you're
an old. shiek and if you had black
curly hair, instead of red hair like
mine, I'd be in your office so much
you'd have to elope with me to get
rid of me-"
When she had gone he relit his
nine and sat in his old arm chair,
staring into space thoughttully-
Then he decided:
Blind, darn fool young whlpper
snapper! I'd like to take him OUT
and manhandle a little sense into
that fool contraption he calls nus
head!" 7,
He meant Kent, of course. And
he added a little later to the dust
and the cobwebs and a bee that
buzzed into the window from the
July heat: -,
"That's what comes from sendin,
boys to college. Knocks all tne
sumption out of EN-. He come home
with a big K sprawled all the way
across his manly bosom, and all the
a., 3. C's of plain boss sense knocked
clean out of his carcass"
But, he decided. he hoped he a
a chance to get in on it before the
show was over. He left his office
with the fighting light Of twenty
glimmering in his kindly old eyes.
1t was a week later that Kent
burst into the house and yelled
Vivian" until she thought he would
raise the roof. She knew what he
wanted to tell her-but she tried not