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THE KEMPTON-WACE LETTERS

BY

JACK LONDON
AND
ANNA STRUNSKY

"_And of naught else than Love would we
discourse._"--DANTE, Sonnet II.

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KEMPTON-WACE LETTERS

I

FROM DANE KEMPTON TO HERBERT WACE

LONDON,
3 A QUEEN'S ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W.
August 14, 19--.

Yesterday I wrote formally, rising to the occasion like the conventional
happy father rather than the man who believes in the miracle and lives
for it. Yesterday I stinted myself. I took you in my arms, glad of what
is and stately with respect for the fulness of your manhood. It is
to-day that I let myself leap into yours in a passion of joy. I dwell on
what has come to pass and inflate myself with pride in your fulfilment,
more as a mother would, I think, and she your mother.

But why did you not write before? After all, the great event was not
when you found your offer of marriage accepted, but when you found you
had fallen in love. Then was your hour. Then was the time for
congratulation, when the call was first sounded and the reveille of Time
and About fell upon your soul and the march t