THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1932.
The Late Arnold Bennett's Last Long Story UNFINISHED
me.
"DREAM OF DESTINY".
(Copyright Strictly Reserved.)
CHAPTER VII (Continued).
approaching the mantlepiece on differently. He was in fact rather "Do." Roland very sympatheti- going to sing small I'd done all
дегода. Thanks."
AB ha
MASTERPIECEĮ
Arnold Bennett's last| long story was left Unfinished, but this does not spoil its
or readable
quality, but rather adds a mystery value which will be found very intriguing.
that
ring
the
word.
do, and oven that was a favour. I telephoned to her, from his office. She wouldn't have dreau-circle. Said she always went in the stalls or a box and she'd never sat in have a row, I prefer it to coma the dress-circle in her life. But naked, in a now unaffected tone of early than late. You know where she said it was quite all right and
I wasn't to bother, and we'd dine|||worth intimney.
you are then." "I thought you were dining out
"Counted out! And rising for "Row?" Tommy sald reflective-at the Imp. to-night if I was sure to-night."
the vac, the day after to-morrow! ly. undécidedls. Then he decided. could be free. But to-night "So I was," Roland amling. Not quite. Still sitting-and will" Well, yes. Call it a row. found she'd only been saving the thing up Sho does save things "But I decided I must have a reat; be. I haven't been within a smile it was a row. But quiet, of course up sometimes. It's her way. these dinners will be the death of of the place. The Division laa'il say this for Milly-d'you know, think there isn't a cloud You on the So I gave myself a chili.did cert, so I kept away. No, she hates me to call her Milly. After all ene must lonf and invite I've been dining with Millicant, Must always be Millicent, Mill-blooming horizon, and then there's
a flash of lightning and the sky's! one's soul now and then. Those rather sho's been dining with cent-I'll say this for her,
never raises her voice, and she's al- let her let me. have it. It does
ake all cloud. She let me have it I|||| dinners are getting to be a regular mo," Afo-sentence,"
"Oh! And how's Millicent?" ways polite, I wish she wasn't. "I'll have a cigar," said Tommy. Roland inquired, not at all in- Look here, I'll tell you all about it." en good to blow off. But I wasn't
had the right to go and she'd been I could. What do you say?" which a box of cigars always lay, startled, as much by the namo-jcally encouraged him, leaning for!
"You were
perfectly right, cheated and I hadn't behaved like rarely "Yes, do. There's matches, and for Tommy
mentioned ward with eager fraternal curiosity Naturally you weren't going to a decent flanco should. In fact I there's your easy chair. Uso both Millicent-as by Tommy's peculiar, on his face. and my blessing is upon you. And self-conscious intonation,
After a short pause, as if collect. aing small. If you had done, you wasn't a man and I wasn't a pro- ¡might have ruined yourself for per fauce. And look here!" o ing his thoughts for a narrative, I'll have a cigar too. Chuck it uttered the mamu.
over. It's your business to be fair pulled a ring from a pocket of lila this pipe. of I'm sick
"Well," said Tommy, "that's Tommy began: what I want to talk to you about. "It was all about that first night to yourself, just as much as to other white waistcoat. "You see the truth is ring. It's her engagement Tommy's movements were very Shall I dispense the whisky 7" last night.The Tenement Girl. people. I expect
"Da. I'm thirsty myself," said She wanted to go to it. Quite your young woman doesn't have and she took it from her finger
and passed it to me across elegant, ovon slightly dandical, He was in evening-dress, being one Roland with a tranquillity which right. Why not? I hear the Fria quite the imagination she ought to table. At the Imp. Not a word.
have. That's generally the CX- of the few M.Pa who changed he did not feel. He foresaw him-la out of the bill to-night. Ili." pinnation," said Roland gently. And I took it without a every night. Which fact did not self the recipient of a confidence Roland nodded.
very "But she can't help that. If she She asked for the bill. She sign- endear him to the males of the such na Tommy would have vouch-awkward for me to go. I got my lacks imagination she lacks it, and ed it. And she tipped the waiter too. And she asked me to see House, though it pleased the safed to no other person in the self into fantastic trouble with the there you are." females. He had quickly acquired world. He knew that he must be Whip only a few days ago.
Tommy alapped his knee and her to her car. That's the kind of thing fellow has to go through a reputation for condescension to tactful, soothing, sympathetic, as I'd been warned for last night
wanted to put down his glass and puffed.
in these days. She doesn't carò a wards the House. He called it unique friend. He really did for four-line whip I
That's exactly it. You've got ng about my career in the House. the worst club in London, with the few minutes forget himself in avold more trouble. I stuck out Althiest food and the worst-dreas Tommy. He was excited-and. with her for several days, but it in one. Imagination is what she wants to go to a first night. not unpleasantly when I saw she was getting a bit she needs. You see, she's self-There aren't any acats, and sho ed women, Nevertheless, when op-being human,
contred. I daresay we all are, but portunity rame he could be Ber-excited at the rumour of another's cross, I gave in."
Milly's a special caso at least I expects me to creato Beats. She viceable in a debate, without the trouble and his own prospective
But you know think so. She's a darling, but she wants to go to a first night."
"Um!" muttered Roland. lenst, condescension, and his smile role of sagacious adviser.
"Millicent and I have had a tiff,"¡what they are. Well, then is a special case."
"Pathological?" did much to counteract his doubt-
Tommy lifted In the warmth of the confidence ful reputation. And on the whole Tommy began, glaas in hand, when couldn't get seats. They'd all been
allotted. Terride run on them, this eyebrows and faintly smiled, he had completely forgotten his it may be said that he was better the whisky had been dispensed."
"Oh?" Bald Roland, Klass in seems.
I saw Adderton myself-speaking still more gently, in own troubles. The air was appreciated by the House than by
I've met him once or twice and order to mitigate, if it should of wreathing smoke; the whiskies more than half drunk; his lethargic leader. The Prime hand. "When?"
"To-night. An hour or so ago, he's rather agreeable. He said prove to have been necessary, the were Minister had a habit of calling his
through the open window came the young men "my boys". "I don't put her into her car, and off she he'd try and get me two seats in crudity of the question,
the dress-circle.-best
if you ko," West End noise of an occasional "Pathological could like my boya fo"do whatever it went!"
"Where"
Tommy agreed. "She wanted to car or taxi and the steady mur-
rumble of the murous
traffic go to that first night, and might be. Tommy had been ironic
In about this phrase to many mem-
"I meat, where did you dine?"
couldn't think of anything else Piccadilly. The two men were an bers, and one or two of them had
except that she wanted to go and intimate as two men could be. "Imperial Palace. It's the only repeated the irony to the Prime
I hadn't arranged for her to go. Each took pleasure in the sight of Minister; who could see every joke place he cares for. It's the only
And she really was furious. She the other and in the sound of his except a joke at his own expense. place she'll be seen at, with me.
couldn't understand it, that's voice. Roland deeply sympathized, Sometimes she insists on paying. The manservant entered with a She did to-night. Well,
what
amounts the
Tommy
hig to. and thing
deeply I don't tray of whisky, soda, and glasses. mind that. If anyone insists on
Couldn't understand it. She want sympathy. And they were, for ed to
of the world. other, men "You needn't wait up.
go, tremendously-it was cach such a smart first night-and sho (Continued on Page 10.) Don't draw the curtains, thanks Kiving me a good meal, I never let my moral principles interfere." "Quite right. There's a lot of
"Thank you, sir.'
No.
"Home-I suppose."
The cronies were alone together, 'nonsense talked about that kind extended nt angles
were of thing. She's better off than
which
nearer the horizontal than the you are, isn't she?"
perpendicular.
"House, counted out" Roland
"You bet sho iu."
"Well, my boy, if you had to
"It was
"You were wrong there." "I know I was.
he
baa
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