Evening star., 1928-12-27
The Winthrop Family Tree.


kicked a chair viciously. Then
L he SlumDed low in his chair,
one long leg crossed over the
other, his hands deep in the pockets
of paint-besnTeared sn1ock. The young
woman on the couch looked up from
her book, shook her sleek bobbed head
and resumed her reading.
THE old man is right, Billie" said
the young man mournfully. AS an
artist I'm a dub! But what the devil
am I going to do?"
The girl again looked up from her
book. "Why go into al those details
again, Neddie? You know what you
should do. I've known all along that at
painting you were dub, but didn't
want to hurt your feelings. Now that
"oh! be yourself, Bill. What am
Go back to the ancestral roof tree
and help your father build automobile
bodies"
"Well! One thing is sure-1'm
through letting you support me"
"Oh, don't let that worry you, old
thing. Got raise yesterday. Old Hol-
liday says I am the best secretary in
New York. Then he asked me to 60 out
to dinner with him"
The man sat upright in his chair and
glared. And did you-'"
'Oh, no, didn't" sitting yawn.
"Came home and broiled lamb chops
for ambitious artist who didn't show up
until 10 bells"
Ned crossed the room, and sat down
on the davenport beside her. He took
the book from her hand and threw 1t
aside He put his arms about her.
"Billie, we have always been deucedly
frank with each other. We must be
egain. I've cot chance up there in
Winthrop with father--a corking good
chance-but they won't accept yOu-
never Mother would pass out-sure
enough. Bobbed hair! Lipstick! Rouge!
Slang!i And if she ever saw you do the
Charleston-oh-h-h-h! You don't know
mother. She never lets you forget she
is Annabelle Winthrop Rayl-the old
town was named for her father-and
her family tree! Why, that family tree
If 1 ever told her that her precious
son"
Billie calmly lit cigarette and blew
the smoke into Ned's face.
"Let me take care Of that, darling
You run along up to Winthrop and go
to work-like man. Build automobile
bodies in the old Winthrop blacksmith
shop or-was it a buggy factory? And
coat forget I'm a rattling good Stenog-
AdHIlG4-t1IG ACSk III 4sGW AOlh, WI.
Holiday Says-and leave the rest to
me- And now that it is decided that
you are going to take your rightful
place in the world as manager of the
Winthrop works, as q wage Garner and
as heir to the combined Winthrop and
Rayl fortunes, let's take a ride on
Riverside bus. They don't have two
decker buses in Winthrop, do they?"
Mrs. Annabelle Winthrop Rayl gave
y &soc
that Summer after her son came home,
TO which she invited all the smartly
select people in that section of New
England But she was a trif1e an
moved with the way Ned applied him
self to his fathers business. When she
mentioned it to her husband he rubbed
his hands together and smiled.
Il didn't know the lad had it in him,
Annabelle, I swear I didn't"
'He is a real Winthrop" said Mrs.
Rayl decisively, land has their busi-
he would pay more attention to Har-
Tiett Emsley. He hardly notices her.
"Oh, come now, Annabelle, be more
charitable. At least Ned has some Rayl
talents combined with the Winthrops'
You forget that the Winthrop works
was just a buggy factory until Rayl
stepped in, and today we are making
the finest custom built automobile
bodies in the east. And the people he
brought into the organization! I didn't
know that he knew g capable person
from poor one. BY George, they have
helped turn the trick with their up
to-date ideas. It pays to get good peo-
pie and pay good salaries! That was
the boys idea, too, and he certainly
brought some valuable people in with
him. They have worked together plan
ned and improved, until we have one of
the finest plants in New England. BY
George, I didn't know the lad had it
in him.
well, 7 didl The grandson of Archi-
bald Winthrop"
But at the end of the year the pres
ident of the Winthrop Body Works
came home worried
THAT little secretary Ned brought up
from New York is leaving. By George,
she has lot of pep, initiative and
brains, besides good looks She has
worked along with Ned tooth and nail
isla mighty good stenographer and busi-
ness head and III miss her more than
more than some OF the people who have
been there for years"
'You don't mean Miss Maitland? I
wonder what has happened. She has
been up here several times on errandS
for Ned and couple of times I kept
her for luncheon. like her, although
] don't think she has much of family.
DO you? A little bit-well. er-er-a
nice girl, but not just the kind We
Why don't you offer her more salary?"
SALARY? didl She gets as much as
some Of the men now. have huncn
she is getting married or some tom-fool
thing like that, Annabelle, and if I do
say it, she'll make a corking good wife
for some fellow: but, by George, I hate
to lose her" And he ran his fingers
through the shock Of his gray hair. I'm
going to find out what is the trouble
! Just can't let her go unless it is some
thing very-in1portant! Let's have iaer
come up and talk it over"
And Miss Maitland came, Ned driv-
ing her up in his new maroon roadster.
Miss Maitland, my husband tells me
you are leaving"
The girl nodded her head Ned had
walked to the further end of the room
and was gazing out Of the window.
May be personal, my dear? We do