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Two years later Mrs. Craig returned briefly to Chicago to bear their daughter. She reached St. Luke's Hospital (without mishap at the corner of 12th St.) and the child was named merely Georgiana Randolph Craig. Mary soon left Georgiana with Bosco's mother and rejoined her husband in Europe. In 1911 they both returned and made the acquaintance of their three-year-old daughter. But in 1914 they set out again for Europe and when World War I came, went on to India. There Bosco continued to paint, and had something to do with the tea business.
In 1918 his wife returned to Chicago to bear another child, Christopher. Two years later she and Bosco were divorced. He married again, and stayed in the Orient until 1940, when World War II began to make it uncomfortable. His daughter says she had a letter from him in Tokyo in 1933 in which he told her that he was trying to sell the Imperial Japanese Government the output of an iron mine in India. Unfortunately he had arrived in Tokyo with only 100 yen, had already run up a bill of 1,000 yen at the Imperial Hotel alone. But to his surprise the deal went through. He left Japan with plenty of money in his pocket, only to make a horrifying discovery on his arrival in Shanghai: there was no iron in the province where the mine was supposed to be.
At any rate, Bosco emerged from the legendary Orient in time to meet his daughter and grandchildren when they went to California in 1941.
Meantime Georgiana's mother had been married again, to another painter, a Russian named Sacha. He had an unpleasant last name which he later changed to Randolph. Thus twice-married Mary Randolph became Mary Randolph again. They had a son, Alexander, and went to live in Venice. There she bought a palazzo on the Grand Canal, and while her husband painted she carved a great many statues out of hard clay and painted them. Sacha has since died, and Mary Randolph now lives with her widowed sister in Chicago. She and her daughter are on good terms and she admires "George's" books, but it is doubtful whether she will get to California to see her daughter before going to Venice to sell the palazzo and dump ''several tons of painted clay" into the laguna.
Meanwhile Georgiana had been left, at the age of six, with Bosco's sister, Mrs. Elton Rice. The Rices took her variously to Fort Atkinson, to a ranch in Okanagan County, Wash, and to San Diego. Her education came partly from her uncle, who liked to read her the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, and partly from a Jesuit missionary with classical tastes.
At one time Georgiana was put in Miss Ransome's School at Piedmont, Calif., but ran away. At 18 she was off for Chicago and a decade of failure and booze.
People who remember her from those days describe her as a thin, dried-up little girl who was very plain, did not care for her appearance and did not show how much she had on the ball. Others remember that she was nice to work with. One fellow Bohemienne recalls: "She was the only woman I ever met who could crochet, play chess, read a book and compose music at the same time—and hold a highball. I almost forgot that."