THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1932.
"DREAM
OF DESTINY"
CHAPTER VII (Continued).
"It's not all Jam being a humming with it." The exaggerat- "How long have you had that know and I know that a bachelor and a little revengefully. The fact bachelor for ever and ever. You ing Tommy smiled triumphantly. gown?" asked Tommy.
"Oh, I don't know; alx months.what the devil he can do next. Be-formation was
passes half his time in thinking was that his chief source of in- Eight."
Nancy Smythe. nidos, it's not natural."
Nancy, having heard of Phabo's "Natural. What the dickens do illness, had late that afternoon tala you mean by natural? It it's un-phoned to Mrs. Friar and had heard! be your own master, then I admit, Iated. The facts-added to what natural to want to be at peace and full details quite innocently re-
I'm unnatural."
Phobo herself had once mentioned
"A shade on the gorcous
side,
his
lan't it?" said Tommy.
Roland did not quite care for dressing-gown to be described as a shade on the gorgeous side.
"Quiet enough, I should have thought," he answered. "The worst of it is it isn't wearing. I was fool enough to buy one of pure silk. They never do wear. Moreover, I couldn't afford it."
SOMETHING NEW
STARTING
TO-MORROW
R. G. Montgomery's
"CALL
OF THE WEST"
Tommy was offended by the rebuke. Roland thought: "Is this A coolncas? ... quarrel? Is it a Serve him right:"
with all its tragedies and its brief head. I was talking generally.truth into enormities. He credited was stiff-artificial.
"What actress friend?" Or Phoebe, is it? I know there's "Why! Frida Friar of course! alliteration in I."
SOMETHING NEW
LOCAL LECTURES, H.K. BRANCH OF ENGLISH ASSOCIATION
and
is It a good thing to bo always bert Court to Roland, had over- "But," Roland rotorted sharply, about showing the roof of Phill- your own master And I doubt loaded and inflamed Nancy to auch If even everlasting panco is the ident 'n point that she had invented a life."
pretext for telephoning to Tommy "Look here, Roly! What the hell and incidentally giving him the They talked dressing-gowns, and then hosiers generally, and then you driving at? Is this the stop-press nows a few minutes bor
gambit curved a to bootmakers. The you've decided yourself to enter the Millicent at the Imperial Palace. for informing me that fore he had gone forth to dine with men's shops of the West End wura holy bonds? Because if so- judged and class. The complex
But Mr. Adderton also had contri- "Not at all I'm not!" Roland buted to the gossip, and his tran- and accret sartorial existence of interrupted him with the freedom,quil, benevolent innuendóes well-dressed males who entered simulating impatient
"No, don't bother about coming hnd their clubs as carelessly as though which is fully permissible in an
testincas, quickly gone round.
downstairs-in your dressing-gown. The Hongkong Branch of the their clothes grew on them by the old-established firm of intimates, now he was thunder-struck, by the creature. Just switch the light on. activities for
At first Roland was astounded. You might moot some sensitive English Association will begin its aid of nature alone, was laid bare "Such a notion never entered my extraordinary twistings of aimple
a new salon on I find my way." Tommy's tone November 1. A programme of triumphs. All these matters were You're like a woman, my ind, nl-what Tommy told him, but with were too intimate to feel under the day of each month, in the Helena lectures le being arranged, to be settled. But beneath the floating ways stepping off the general down difficult. Many times he had gaily necessity of shaking hands at any May Institute.
They did not shake hands. Thoy held, as usual, on the first Tues- bubbles of the chatter of the two into the particular." cronies ran the slow, deep stream Then what's all this about this it further on its way. To-night he have preferred that on this occasion ministering the Government, Mr.
stened to malicious gossip and sent time. Nevertheless, Roland would of their ideas concerning women. actress friend of yours?" Tommy was angered by malicious gossip they should shake hands. No, he W. T. Southorn, will preside at the IIe Excellency the Officer Ad- Roland especially, against his super-lemanded belligerently. And he which was not more untrue tlian wouldn't have preferred it. Herat meeting. The meeting will ficial inclination, was still seriously too was simulating testiness as per- most gossip. But he still, con- had no desire to shake hands with consist of the annual general busi- preoccupied by the great and termitted by the code of jolly com- trolled himself, trying rible subject and myopic wrong-panionship..
to think the man so coarse and so self-com-ness meeting for accounts headedness of Tommy thereon. He Roland laughed. He should have lesson
philosophically: "This will be a placent. deemed it his duty as a true friend tughed botter or not at all. There against Tommy. He resented the very audible whisper from tho in Books and in Life." So as to
to me." Ile felt furious
elections, followed by a lecture to utter a few remarks to Tommy were hints of both a sneer and an, phrasen
"See you sock," Tommy called in from Father Byrne on "The Child He would; yet he would not; yet he apology in his laugh.
"this actress friend of would. At Inst the words carae aut
yours, and the phrase "your cele- The front door softly bakedness, without trespassing on the
foot of the stairs.
allow time for the general busi- of themselves.
brated broom" (what celebrated Roland switched off the stairs light time for lecture and discussion, it "You know," he began, trying to
self to make a pleasing impression the open window the atmosphere in meeting of the year at 6.15 instead broom?), and the phrase "act your and re-entered his parlour. Despite has been decided to hold this first speak as casually as Tommy had spoken about cigars, and not suc
Roland was seriously affronted, "scene."
un her people" and the ceeding. "You
word there was intolerable. know--you Bay as well as astounded, by this blow, heen twisted.
Indeed everything had
of the usual hour of 5.80. Never again. Never again. must keep steady," he advised Never again.' But why never himself, And aloud "And what happened," he said, in tenes too "Now FI just tell you all that again? You might one day later have you heard about me and obviously cerstrained. "And do do on regret your never again." Phabe Friar, I should like to your best to grasp the matter," that, tespite the title, the late Mr. Mild reproof in his voice, and know." certain sarcasm In his relteration
"What have I heard f What have of "the matter",
Then he vouchsafed his own version his plot entirely on the fines of the land, Wales, and Scotland since of Tommy's.phrase.
"I'm a damn sight more likely to the wary calmness of one who I haven't the faintest fatention of readers have ideas regarding the
not heard?" sald Tommy, with vindicatory detall, and ended: "And vivid dream described in the firsting in the future.
Sept. 30, 1931, and for those join- be sorry if I do go in for it again foresees victory and the putting of marrying Phebe Friar,I mean of most apt conclusion.j
chapters. Perhaps 0721 Some trace of that ruffling self-the boot on the other leg. "You go naking her to marry complacency of hía in his voice. to her rehearsals" And he was ever 80 slightly
never had." irritated by Roland's return to the you that myself, young fellow."
"I went to a rehearsal. I told "Oh!" Tommy burst out. "So subject. Had they not discussed "Yes, you
long as you aren't marrying her, did. So Il suficiently. Was not Tommy people. You
did other that's all right! Only you're keep- sick of it, for the moment. Tommy parties. You drive her home. You keep an eye on you. Roly."
go to her stage-ing an eye on me, and I've got to wunled to forget it-forget his have supper with her in her flat humiliation. Tommy had had alone. You go to her first nights. Roland was now raging. The em- If he was thunderstruck before, very arduous evening and needed You go afterwards to her dressing phasized "aren't marrying now to be cushioned in amilable room and when chat, not to have, darts pushed into well, you sweep all the other people too much for him.
she doesn't feel with all ito odious implications, was out of the dressing-room with your "Do you know Phabe Friar?" celebrated broom, and you take her he asked, and his voice trembled. home again. And you alt out on "Of course I know her. Don't the roof with her in the middle of you remember I met her at that the night. And you've dined there, dinner at Nancy's?" It seems, and set yourself to make a pleasing impression on her people -not without success. And now she's you rush off down there again and see the doctor yourself, And there's a scene. Naturally you don't hear what's being said. People who are talked about never do. But you may believe me it's all over Tommy accepted his statements London. The whole place is with reserve, and, second, that
Jim.
In considerablo
me. And
her."
That's nothing. If you knew her a bit better, really knew her, you wouldn't have said what you did say just now,"
"Sorry! Sorry!" and jumped up. "It's horrid Inte. said Tommy, 1 must go. Ta-ta!"
Roland perceived first, that
(Here the story abruptly finisher. It is hoped that thero will be a Lane-Smith's way out of his dilemma friends of this thriving associa No indication is wet apparent of big assembly of the members and and, at the same time, it seems unlike- tion. Arnold Bennett intended to work out
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