LOVE FINDS A WAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18861, 8 November 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)

LOVE FINDS A WAY.

A DOUBLE ELOPEMENT.

MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTERS.

REVOLT AGAINST SECLUSION. «

TWO HUMBLE BRIDEGROOMS.

A retired American millionaire banker and philanthropist, Mr. G. L. Winthrop, professes himseif puzzled at the elopement of his two daughters, Emily and Kate, the former of whom has married the family chauffeur and the latter an electrician. Over and over again Mr. Winthrop has read a telegram from the girls informing him of their marriages and asking his forgiveness. He says that he cannot understand it.

Left motherless when they were children, Emily, who is 31, and Kate, who is 24, had been reared in seclusion on the Winthrop country estate in Lenox township, in tho Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. 'The father, 65 years old, was so devoted to them that ho wished to have them all to himself. To this end he is said to have kept them from mingling with the young society set to which, by the distinction and wealth of the family —which* is of old aristocratic stock— they naturally belonged. Under the tutelage of an elderly governess both girls developed talent. Emily took to sculpture, and her father erected a studio for her. Here she did work

which found its way to art exhibitions in New York. She also liked dogs, so he provided splendid kennels, and stocked them with animals of high degree. Kate showed a taste for music; having a. particular penchant for the piano and the harp. A spacious music room was placed" at her disposal, equipped with all the instruments she desired. Mr. Winthrop also established a chicken farm for the younger daughter on his broad acres, because she manifested an interest in poultry raising. Every home luxury money could buy was theirs. Everything they wanted they had, ifc seems, except the society they craved of girls and boys of their own age, .and the freedom to go whithersoever they listed. Gossips say it did not occur to the father that, deprived of the companionship of young men of their own station in life, they would find extraordinary attractions in the male servants on the "'Estate, or the workmen occasionally summoned to make repairs or additions.

The sisters' principal excursions outside.of the Winthrop domain were motor trips to the shopping street of the little' town, during which surreptitious visits were paid to a cinema theatre, where their imaginations were fired by. the romances of the screen. Then, succeeding an old retainer, came Corey Miles, a widower without children and 33 years old, who was engaged to take charge of the family motor-cars. He was zealous and attentive. The inevitable happened. Emily fell in love with him. Tho girl confided with her sister, who was more than sympathetic, and when a youthful electrician, Darwin Morse, gooddooking, fairly well educated, and one year younger

Daring tho absence of their father in New York, the girls ran off with tho young men in two of the best cars in the garage, and tho quartette, having been married in a neighbouring _ village by a clergyman, departed for their honeymoon, no one knows where. Both brides are rich in their own right.

than herself, came to do some work about the place, she, in turn, conceived a passion for him.