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When he had left, William sat in Charles Lester’s chair and whirled hilee till he was di=y ’nen he looked out of theon to Wall Street, elated by the bustling crowds, enjoy~ ing the view of the other great banks and brokerage houses of America He was part of all that now

’And who, pray, are you?’ said a female voice fro in front of hi very irate

’Perhaps I may ask you the same question,’ said William

’I am the chairman’s secretary,’ said the woman stiffly

’And I,’said Willia the next feeeks William moved his fahth Street Settling in took longer than they had originally anticipated pible For the first three months William wished, as he ossi tried to extricate himself from Boston in order to carry out his job in New York, that every day had forty - eight hours in it, and he found the umbilical cord was hard to sever coan to appreciate why Alan Lloyd had backed him to be chair to adht

Kate’s life in New York was soon fully occupied Virginia could already crawl across a rooet into William’s study before Kate could turn her head, and Richard wanted a neindbreaker, like every other boy in New York As the wife of the chairive cocktail parties and dinners, subtly iven the chance to catch the private ear of William to seek his advice or voice their own opinions

Kate handled all situations with great charrateful to the liquir dation departreatest asset When she infor to have another baby, all he could ask was ’When did I find the tiinia~ was thrilled by the news, not fully understanding why Mu so fat, and Richard refused to discuss it

Within sixof the pas and William had becoure to be reckoned with in New York financial circles Not an to wonder in which direction he should start to set hioal He had achieved his life’s ae of thirty - three although, unlike Alexander, he felt there were more worlds still to conquer, and he had neither the dave birth to their third child at the end of Willianes first year as chairirl, whoinia, as noalking, how to rock Lucy’s cradle; while Richard, now alarten at T’he BucIdey School, used the new arrival as the opportunity to talk his father into a new baseball bat

In William!& first year as chairhtly up and he was forecasting a considerable improvement in his second year

Then on I September 1939 Hitler marched into Poland

One of WillianYs first reactions was to think of Abel Rosnovski and his new Baron on Park Avenue, already beco the toast of New York Quarterly reports froth to strength although his latest ideas for expansion to Europe looked as if they ht delay Cohen continued to find no direct association between Henry Osborne and Abel Rosnovski, but he adly difficult to ascertain all the facts he required

Williaht that America would involve herself in a European war, but nevertheless he kept the London branch of Lester’s open to show clearly which side he was on and not for onehis twelve thousand acres in Hampshire and Lincolnshire Tony Simmons in Boston, on the other hand, informed William that he intended to close Kane and Caboes London branch William used the problems created in London by the war as an excuse to visit his beloved Boston and have awith Tony

The two chairmen now er had any reason to see themselves as rivals In fact, each had com board for new ideas As Tony had predicted, Kane and Cabot had lost some of its more important clients when William became the chairman of Leste2s, but William always kept Tony fully informed whenever an old client expressed a desire to le one When they sat down at the comer table of Locke - Ober’s for lunch, Tony Si his intent to close the London branch of Kane and Cabot