Good-by, with a thousand kisses. With God’s help I shall yet do something to make you proud of bearing your husband’s name. Do not give me up, for I shall one day or another come back to claim my wife and child. May God keep and bless you, wherever you are, and save your love for me. If by any mischance we should never meet again in this world, be assured that in everything, word and deed, you have always been to me the truest, best, and most loving wife a man ever had. My whole heart and soul go out to you … my precious, darling, good-by.
