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...wellborn friends who warned him that politics was "low," he joined Manhattan's 21st District Republican Club, got elected and re-elected to three rambunctious years in the lower house of the .New York State legislature. In the winter of 1884 T.R.'s wife Alice died in childbirth, and he headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." There T.R. ran the Maltese Cross and Elkhorn cattle ranches (see color pages), rode the range beneath springtime stars...
Suddenly disaster. The Germans break through at Caporetto, and the Italian army dissolves. In the confusion the hero is arrested as an enemy agent, but he escapes and deserts. He takes his girl to Switzerland, where they are blissfully happy. Then she dies in childbirth...
...actually had little reason to worry, for Alice had long since collapsed under his devastating attack and idolized him completely. They were married the October after his graduation. She was to die in 1884 during childbirth...
...because he lacked a curfew pass, released him after a few hours. The cops learned that earlier that evening three men appeared outside a gendarmery outpost near Port-au-Prince, and as a pretext to get near said they were seeking a doctor to help a woman in childbirth, then suddenly opened fire, killing four sentries. To the suspicious police, already hysterically fearful of attack by bitter-end partisans of defeated Candidate Déjoie, the similarity of the two stories seemed proof that Déjoie-backer Talamas was in cahoots with the killers. Rushing to Talamas' house...
...down in the fullness of life by cancer, and young Arthur learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth. Something else has died first-the youthful illusion that they had fallen in love with each other, when they had only fallen in love with love. In name Hope was a wife, in reality she was a permanently affronted virgin. Reflecting on the ignorance of his early years, Arthur Winner learns...