The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-12

pumped up enough courage to come and ask you to marry me. But being down to bedrock I am not going to do anything of the sort. I only just tell you that I love you because l sort of want you to know. I've got an idea 1t might help me in time to come. don't suppose it will help you any, but you are kind, and know you will think kindly of me. And of course if at any time you want any, body's head punched, or any thing of that sort, which is in my line, you've only got to hold up your little finger and wiggle it about once in my direction, and I'll be there with the goods, so to speak.
 You see I'm not very good on brains so the Old Top tells me, and I believe he's right. And if I have to work for my living, as I have to, it is not going to be the sort of living which I could ask you to share.
 50 goodbye, Jacqueline, and I'm glad that I've known you and loved you It's taught me quite a bit that I might not have learned for years and years if it hadn't been for you. If you were as poor as or I were as rich as you, things might have been different. But there you are. The world is full of a number of things.
 TEDDY It was a feeble letter, expressed n the irresponsible Teddy" style But Jacqueline took it up to hei bedroom and sat over it for a long ime. She did not go out that night, because she found she had g headache and it was bad one. Teddy had written from his club md the letter, of course, demanded m answer. But it was three day; before she could write the answer In the end she wrote letter which she considered would be final
 She realized now that she loved he gallant and irresponsible Teddy IS she had never dreamed of low ng any man. She had, in fact never loved a man before.
 The men she had met had meant 10 more to her than her girl friends and she had come to the conclusion hat she had not the necessary emotional equipment to fall in love with a man. as her fayorite heroes 0n the screen fell in love with their heroines. And then Teddy had come, with his simple worship, his boyish eagerness to fight battles for her and his gallant inconsequential air Tn the end this rather fine with trawal, because in his modesty finding himself penniless, he hao thought he had nothing to offer her that would be worth her while This is what Jacqueline wrote finally, after taking drought fol three days,
 My Dear Teddy
 T am glad you have told me, and I shall always remember with happiness that you saw something in me good enough to love.
 T hope you will not think I am hard and cold, because am not that at all. I feel very deeply what you have told me, and I believe it will make me a better girl to know that you have loved me.
 T don't want to say any more. because agree with you that 1t will be better for both of us if we do not see each other again If things had been diff ferent --. our circumstances, mean, there might have been something better for us in the future. But as things are l don't see how there can be. But I believe you could make any girl happy who was fond of you, Teddy.
 T hope the world will be full of many good things for you.
 "JACQUELINE." Copyright, 1890, Richard Starr)
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