THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1932.
The Late Arnold Bennett's Last Long Story
"DREAM OF DESTINY”
(Copyright Strictly Reserved),
AYNOPSIS.
UNFINISHED
MASTERPIECE
had a reputation to keep up. H|||Arnold Bennett's last kept it up. The man affectionate story, the first instal-|
ily admired him, was devoted to him,
would do simply anything for him.ment of which was Only when he was alona dla Roland decline. Into spleen and a
published yesterday, After general antipathy to mankind. Let all, what did it matter if the real one of his fellow-creatures ap girl did or did not resemble the proach him, and instantly he be
Alment of the dream..
Roland Lane Smith, educated idlo amateur darling of hostesses. And why in dream-girl, since he had never gan to love the fellow-creature, sels Phoebe Criar of his sister-in-law God's name would so many people willingly to see her again? What and through him good permenting
af controller of Industrial data,
hotes-warming. Klas Frias leian scire who should have known better in-had she said at parting? She had the world.
who has taken New York by atorm bat 'who
he had bad a few nights previously.
is unfinished, but this does not spoil its oorth от readable quality, but rather adds a mystery value|| which will be found very intriguin.....
has yet to make her debut as a star in Lonist on sticking a hyphen between said: "Terribly sorry you have to He had just finished breakfast, den. She recals to his mind a strange vivid Lave and Smith when there was Ku-you are sweet!" Well he was and was beginning to brace him It was a disconcerting tregis dream. Bis life no hyphen? Snobs! And someone accustomed to being found sweet self for the inbours of a day which was intimately bound up with that of the anion the forbears of his coub girls. But nobody, in his included a meeting of his Beard, girl Although he had never pravlonały met Phoobe, he has no doubt she is the sisin's branch of the vast Smith heart of hearts, is modest. Then, when the man came in to call him immense silónce of the to the telephone. Now the tele- family must have been deliberate-in the ly a sucb. Imagine altering Smith secret places, a man faces the phone was in the back-hall on the to Smythe! Disgusting1 The Mas. truth. Roland was under forty; ground-floor, and telephone talke ter of Balliol, in Roland's time, he was fairly personable, and he could be overheard in the kitchen, cavy,"
the dream-
NOW GO ON WITH THE ATONY,
CHAPTER II.
past
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had been content with the name was attractive. He knew by long in the hall, on the stairs and in "You're awfully kind," he said. As a rule Roland, in the ventro of Smith-noy and noe and varied experience that he was any room of which the door hap--the fool. "But I'll buy a stali. of the West End of London, slept Phoebe Friar was not bad. But atractivo. Attractiveness might pened to be open. Barbaric! In a 1 always pay for my seat, and I very well. His bedroom was at how over-emphatic, how intense mean nothing, might be a despic-flat he would have his own tele- always go alone." the back of the house in Half What exaggerated gestures she able quality. But he had it... phone. He hurried down-stairs, "Well," she laughed. "You won't Moon Street. Although there had! She existed in a universe of Click of the door. The manser because he disliked to keep people buy this one, because I shall give wore noises. especially in the superlatives. And In his heart vant with ten. He
опе loathed the waiting. Perhaps
And secondly. I doubt if of his it you. early morning, he defeated them he hated superlatives as much as click. (The click infuriated him senile Directors had dropped down you could buy one. The demand by the simple procedure of calmly she hated the theatre, for which that morning, for it recalled the dend or caught a chill.
will be dazzling, they tell mc. dogiding not to hear them and he alone she lived! Conceive sharing end of his dream. The
Her voice, rich, full, resounding I'd no idea I should be such did not hear them. But on the a home with her! Conceive hav-dream must have been instantane in his car. A voice from the very draw in darling old London. I morning after Nancy's grand fete, ing her for breakfast. You eas. All dreams were instan: first words full of invitation. Ho haven't realized yet what u feninle ho was awakened by a hollish clnt-couldn't. Was he under the in-taneous.
said was natounded, frightened; he felt toff I am. Excuse me. I'm not ter in, an adjoining courtyard; a fluence of his dream? Of course that. Droams had no duration in the vibrations of the voice from top really conceited. Well. It's agreed large, somewhat incoherent hotel not. Ho had no use for dreams, time. They had no truck with to bottom of his spine. He must then. You're frightfully of small rooms and encumbered if he believed in dreams he might time. Then why should they not keep his nerve; he must fend her natured to come. And you must Burrow corridora sheltered a cou-as well buy a dream-book and con-refer as easily to the future as to off. So early, and yet she had come round and see me after the ple of hundred economical provin-sult it. Every dream had a cause, the past? Rot!) For some months discovered his number somehow show. I should be frightfully cials and Americans close by. naturally. A dream was begotten he had been meditating removal-it was not in the Book and disappointed If you didn't. You This noise greeted the dawn every by stomachic or intestinal indiges- from the old-fashioned and incon-rung him up and got him. were frightfully sweet to me Inst
house event or venient day; Roland had not heard it for tion upon some
"I hope I haven't disturbed you, night. Nancy always said For some months a max wakened you?" months. He was sad, not farious, events. But ns for a dream fore-Street.
were a dear." at being robbed of ninety minutes telling the future-well, the idea nificent block of newest flats had
"Oh no! I was going out. An-1 She had rang off before he sleep. Like all people untimely wis fatuous. Anyone might been ascending towards · heaven | disturbed from innocent slumber dream of a lump-it garden. Ifnd between Kensington Road, and other minute and should have could collect himself. He had sworn never to see her again. And he, became at once conscious of not Nancy written to him. in her King's,
Inndlord's been gone."
here he was... ete. But what "Well, I won't detain you for could it matter, anyway? Propos- An acute egotism. He wilfully invitation, of the size and charm agent had shown it to him as an forgot that if important persons of the garden, and expressed both expert, and as an expert he had more than two seconds. I'm still terous to attach the least signi- Te lying in bed. Have you seen the ficance to a dream-and such a such as himself are to have, their her hopes and her fears about the examined it and approved it. .comforts humbler persons must weather favouring or not favour-could rent a small flat in it for no papera?"
vague dream! If he had avoided Had he seen the papers! He had her because of a dream, he would rise before them. He seriously conjing her elaborate plan. Well, his more than he paid in Half Moon sidored that the entire district dream had grown from her letter. Street, and there was service if seen three. And her name flamed have felt humiliated:
he would a lamp-lit, he wanted service. Plats represent-like a flag in all of them. Up to have fallen to the intellectual ought to be organized for the full He had dreamed of maintenance of his repose. Nothing garden, and he had seen one. And ed progress, good or bad; where last night he had read nothing level of a Mrs. Bowers. Never- the girl! He had dreamed of a as the house in Half Moon Street about her In the news. Now she theless, his mind was in a wild was unusual; he still had not.
newa. Opening in another. But girl. There
thousands of was a survival as quaint and ex-was the were private care in the world.
There were phrases. everything was wrong, and he was attractive girls,--he himself knew asperating as its prim landlady. brand new superative theatre, in in her telephone-talk which abrad- oppressed by huge, vague cares. a hundred or two. Well, he had Doors in the latest block of pro- Soho, in a play by a famous au- led his sensibilities. But Then he was furious. He
she had would you? You couldn't expect even met another one. In his dream fusely gadgeted flats would not thor, a play of which doubted whether life was worth he had had no clear vision of the annoyingly click. He would move. made a succes
York to have everything in one girl. living. He had not thanked the girl. He had had merely an im- He would march with the age. He Short biographies of hor, Gossip And she was so sincere, so friend- assiduous Nancy for a delightful [pression of the girl, her hair. her would not be a grumbling rejas to her. Portraits of her. And ly, so enthusiastic. And allow evaning. Ife had quitted Missigestures. He had not dreamed actionary. There were old men at night she had not sald a word ances must be made for the ex- Friar with the grosscat, crudest that she was an actress. The girl at the club who cursed everything about the affair, and he very, neg-altation due to tremendous pub- abruptness. His face was to- he had met was an actress; and even the installation of modern ligently had not shown curiosity licity. wards the light, and the Bimsy nearly all actresses
in a lavatories. He would not raise aas to her plans. The first-night curtains and blind were no pro-world of superlatives and had ex-whining chant like
of was evidently to be a prodigious He was nc-seventy. tection against the light. And jaggerated gestures.
He was under forty; he and glittering pomp. Stalls bwo the bed-table
He was a was young, and young he would guinens apiece. Was too small, quainted with netresses.
be, of the bed-theatre-goer, a firstnighter. ... the switch
He would spring blithely out and
"The plan was all altered only of Half yesterday afternoon," she said, light too high to reach without The scenes of the dying woman, of the forlorn groove
Bowers effort. Mrs.
his the dead woman, on the bed was Moon Street... Decision de-when he had spoken. "They had a landlady, was survival from tragic, in memory. Champagne,finitely reached in one second, be-musical comedy for that theatre,
an
FL
lived
A man
in New
the novela of Dickens and deservino doubt. He had drunk half affore the man and the little. ten-but it's fallen through or some- ed to be told off about a hundred bottle at khe club; champagne tray had appeared in the doorway. thing, and I'm to take its place. details, and he would tell her off seldom agreed with him, particu-He was benevolently bland, wel Now listen. If you'd really care -damn her. This was the kind-larly when his mind was disturb-coming, chalty to the man who lo come to the fir-night, I'll send ly philosophical Roland Lane ed, as it had been disturbed-very had once been a footman in Gros-you a stall, I'd send you two if Smith, exemplar to modern youth, Iridiculously-by the pseudo-ful-venor Square and with whom he you insisted, but that wouldn't be
(To be continueds)
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