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 they together planted under her window, with mutual vows of fidelity and a promise upon the part of the young Lieutenant that when the rose bloomed he would return to claim her for his bride. The rose grew and bloomed and became a trailing and blossoming vine that overran the low adobe that is still called the Sherman Rose cottage. But Sherman never returned. Instead he marched from Atlanta to the sea and into the Hall of Fame, while the Senorita who helped him plant the rose remained unmarried, and concealed her disappointment beneath a sweetness and beauty of character that shed a soft radiance about her until she went to her final rest more than half a century later.

The House of the Four Winds, so called because of a roof that sloped four ways with a weather vane at its peak, was also built by Larkin. It was the first Hall of Records in the new state and the first Recorder of Monterey County had his office there. It is today a meet-