Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1931, Page 28

1931 D. C, WEDNESDAY, — THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, APRIL 22, MYSTERIOUS WAYE By Percival Christopher Wren, Author of “Beau Geste” J (Coprright by Prederick A. Btokes Co.) TCR XXVIIL JOHN WAYE'S STORY. ¥ real nfime is John Dacre Waye Vand:rleur St. Clair, and my father was Dacre Vanderleur St. Clair, the multi-millionaire v, oil and mining “mag- millions quite honestly, | ided work for nearly as many | ds of men as he amass:d thou- of do appat as upon all vast wealth, was a curse upon his mone mhmcnt&n it by reason of its 1 his life was almost as mv OW‘n has be:n. ‘ e heir, he left our fa- mous family dmmond, the Unsemng i, and that portion of his wealth | that remained after he had dispersed much of it in promoting philanthropic schem: My fi tune, attributable to | my wealth, was my marriage with a girl who told me, within a couple of years | of our wedding, that she had married | me for my gmm-y and for nothing e! e Also that she loved with all her he: and soul a man, an army officer, obscur: whom_ she had known ev and cad, even if I were such a fool, as to keep tied to me a woman who loved another man—particularly a woman who had laid me under such a debt, such a crushing burden of debt, as she had done in giving me Roscmary I begged Alicia, my wife, to wait a little, to wait till Rosemary began to walk and to talk, and promised her that if she would do so I would then set her free, if her mind remained unchanged. I hoped, and I almosy believed, that by that time she would feel it impossible to leave Rosemary, and I felt that if she could still ind it in her heart to leave her baby, the child would by then be fitter to face life without her mother. I had a horror of the bare thought of a sick or suffering child, too young to speak, unabl> to describe its pain and say what its symptoms 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, per- haps. Give in fact, everything but mother love, the one thing that it really wants. I have not said, and I hardly need to say, that I stipulated that + Alicia left me Rosemary should remal) in my charge, though of course Alic}a would be free to see her whenever sh# wished to do so. One of our Anniversary outstanding values, side backs and sides covered in velour. 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Of. course, one can love with all one’s | heart and soul, mind and stre out actually being “in lov that, in the perfect marriage, the man and the woman are, at first and for a long time, “in love,” and aftcr that, for f.he rest of their lives, they love. So it would be absurd to use the e pression, ‘T was in love with Rosemary but I so loved her that she literally | filled my Lif girl, came | My first waking thought -was of ry; - my last .thought at night. Day by day, week by week, month by month and year by year, she grew more | and more wonderful to me. I 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, I grucged cvery hour that she spent with them and contrived that she spent most of her waking hours with me. I thould become wearisome if I con- tinue longer in this strain, as, no doubt, | I was wearisome to every one to whom | 1 spoke of Resemary and to_every one | to whom I wrote—except on business. | Suffice it to say that Rosemary was | my life and that I loved Rosemary bet- ter than my life. I owned four great houses and moved from one to the other, according to the season of the year, so that, as well as having the best of everything else that | money could provide, Rosemary should lhme the best of climate. And thus, for a dozen years, we lived the most idyllic life, with the truest love and one of the loveliest relationships that ever existed between two human | beings. For, thank God, Rosemary loved me as I loved her; and I do not think she was ever really perfectly | happy out of my presence. | And then suddenly out of the blue, | like a thunderbolt, fell another mani- (csl’nlnn of the curse inherent in my | father’s money. Tike all great fortunes, it had attracted attention. 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