The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-16
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promised her that if she would dc
 so I would then set her free, if her
 mind remained unchanged.
 hoped ,and I almost believed
 that, by that time, she would feel
 it impossible to leave Rosemary
 and I felt that if she could still
 find it in her heart to leave her
 baby, the child would by then be
 fitted to face life without her
 mother.
 I had a horror of the thought
 of sick or suffering child, too l young to speak, unable to describe
 its pain and say what it's symp-
 toms were, and what it wanted.
 It was quite a foolish idea of mine, of course, because, after all, one can obtain the services of truly excellent women who can give a child almost everything it needs, and understand it quite as well as a mother could, perhaps. Give it, in fact, everything but mother love, the one thing that it really wants.
 have not said, and I hardly ineed to say, that I stipulated that, if Alicia left me, Rosemary should remain in my charge, though of course Alicia would be free to see her whenever she wished to do so.
 Well, Alicia wect, and I believe, and earnestly hope, that she was thoroughly happy with her SOL dier
 And there again sne, poor girl, came under the curse of my fath- CTS wealth. Had it not been for the money which I had settled upon her on our wedding, she would have been unable to marry her lover after she divorced me, as I allowed her to do, and they would not have been able to purchase the yacht which was the cause of their death
 ] Well, they lived happily to- gether, and they died together. 't And I was left alone with Rose mary.
 I will not attempt to do that
 impossible thing, describe what Rosemary was to me. had never been in love up to this time, and indeed I have only been in love once in my life.
 But, oh, how l loved Rosemary! [ Of course, one can love with all ones heart and soul, mind and strength, without actually being in love" I take it that, in the per- feet marriage, the man and woman are, at first and for long time, fin love-" and, after that, for the rest of their lives, they love.
 So it would be absurd to use the expression, T was in love with Rosemary" but I so loved her that she literally filled my life.
 My first walking thought was of
 Rosemary; my last thought at night. Day by day, week by week,
 month by month and year by year
 she grew more wonderful to me. l can hardly say more lovable. And though I provided her with
 the best hired mother that money could procure and with every sort
 and kind of governess and nurse and servant, grudged every hour that she spent with them and con- trived that she spent most of her waking hours with me.
 should become wearisome il I continue longer in this strain as, no doubt, was wearisome to fevery one to whom spoke of Rose I wrote-except on business. Suffice it to say that Rosemary was my life, and that loved Rose mary better than my life. I owned four great houses, ano moved from one to the other ac- : cording to the season of the year so that, as well as having the besi of everything else that money coulc provide, Rosemary should have the best of climate.
 And thus, for a dozen years, we lived the most idyllic life, with the truest love and one of the love- Hest relationships that ever exist ed between two human beings For, thank God, Rosemary loved me as I loved her; and I do not think she was ever really per fectly happy out of my presence And then suddenly out of the bluo, like a thunderbolt, fell an other manifestation of the curse inherent in my fathers money Like all other great fortunes, it had attracted attention. It was famous, and although I had in- herited only part of it. people used my name proverbially. with those of Croesus. Rockefeller. Pier : pont Morgan and Vanderbilt. We were at my California house and after a particularly happy day, during great part of which Rosemary and had ridden to- gether, I shared as usual her SUD- per. which we used to call dinner