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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1932.

The Late Arnold Bennett's Last Long Story UNFINISHED

"DREAM OF DESTINY"

(Copyright Strictly Reserved).

BYNOPSIS..

dream he had had a few nights previously,

had a reputation to keep up. He kopt it up. The man affectionate-

Roland decline into spleen and a;

·MASTERPIECE

Arnold Bennett's last

"You're awfully kind,” he said,

"

I

ly admired him, was devoted to him, story, the first instal- would do simply anything for him.ment of which was Only when he was alone di published yesterday, filment of the dream. After general antipathy to mankind. Let is unfinished, but this all, what did it matter if the real one of his fellow-creatures ap-does girl did or did not resemble the preach him, and instantly he be-

not spoil its Roland Lane Soolth, educated idle amateur darling of hostesson, And why in dream-girl, since he had of life hummed controller of inter-in-Jan God's name would so many people willingly to see her again? What and through him, good permeating quality, but rather never gau to love the follow-creature, worth or readable mela Phoebe at his sister-in-law'à house-warming. Miss Pelar in an ctre who should have known batter in- had she said at parting? She had the world. who has taken New York by storm but who has yet to make her debut as a star in Ionsist on sticking a hyphen between said: "Terribly sorry you have to dot. She recalls to his mind ranro vivid Lane and Smith when there was so you are sweet!" Well, he was and was beginning to brace him-which will be found He had just finished. breakfast, adds á mystery value|| it was disconcerting tragic dream, illino hyphen? Snobs! And someone accustomed to being found sweet self for the labours of a day which was intimately bound on with that of the among the forbears of his cou-by girls. But girl. Although he had never previously met

nobody, in his included a meeting of his Board, very intriguing. Phoebe, be has no doubt she is the girl of ein's branch of the vast Smith heart of hearts, is modest. Then, when the man came in to call him the dream-

family must have been deliberate-in the immense aflence of the to the telephone. Now the telef NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY,

ly a snob. Imagine altering Smith seerot places, a man faces the phone was in the back-hall on the to Smythel Disgusting! The Mas-truth. Roland was under forty; ground-floor and telephone talks CHAPTER II.

ter of Balliol, In Roland's time, he was fairly poraonable, and he could be overheard in the kitchen, cany." had been content with the name was attractive. He knew by long in the hall, on the stairs and in As a rulo Roland, in the centre of Smith, no 'y' and TO and varied experience that, he was any room of which the door hap--the fool. "But I'll buy a stall of the West End of London, slept Phoebe Friar was not bad. But attractive Attractiveness might poned to be open. Barbarici In a I always pay for my seat, and I very well. His bedroom was at how over-emphatic, how intensel mean nothing, might be a desple-flat he would have his own tele- always go alone." the back of the house in Half What oxaggorated 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 mansor because he disliked to keep people boy this one, because I shall give were поївев especially in the superlatives. And in his heart vant with tea. He leathed the waiting. Perhaps. one of his it you. And secondly, I doubt if 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 dead or caught a chill

[will be dazzling, they tell me. deciding not to hear them and he jalone she lived! Conceive sharing end of his dream. The whole did not hear them. But on the a home with her! Concolya hav-dream must have been instantane-in his ear. A voice from the very draw in darling

Her voice, rich, full, resounding T'd no idea I should be such

old London. morning after Nancy's grand fete, jing ̧ hor for breakfast. Youjous. All dreams were Instan first words full of invitation. He haven't realized yet what a female he was awakened by a hellish elat-couldn't. Was he under the in-taneous. Men of science sald was astounded, frightened; he felt toff I am. Excuse me. I'm not ter in an adjoining courtyard; a fluence of his dream? Of course that. Dreams had no duration in the vibrations of the voice from top really conceited. Well, it's agreed large, somewhat incoherent hotel mot. He had no use for dreams. time. They had no truck with to bottom of his spine. He must then. You're frightfully good of small rooms and encumbered If he believed in draama he might time. Then why should they not keep his nerve; he must fend her natured to come. And you must narrow corridors 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 provinsult it. Every dream had a cause, the past? Rott) For some months discovered his number somehow show. I should be frightfully ciala 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 stomachie or intestinal indiges- from the old-fashioned and incon-rung him up and 'got' him. were frightfully sweet to me last day; Roland had not heard it for tlon upon some past event or venient house in Half Moon

"I hope I haven't disturbed you, night. Nancy always months. He was sad, not furious, events. But as for a dream fore-Street. For some months a mog.

wore a dear," at being robbed of ninety minutes tolling the future-well, the iden nificent block of newest flats had wakened you?”

off before ho An- She had rung sleep.

"Oh no! I was going out. Like all people untimely was fatuous. Anyone might boen ascending towards henven

himself. He, had disturbed from Innocent slumber dream of a lamp-lit garden. Had between Kensington Road and other minute and I should have could collect

sworn never to see her again. And he became at once conscious of not Nancy written to him, in her King's Road. The

been gone." landlord's

here he was

abc. But what an acute egotism. He wilfully invitation, of the size and charmjagent had shown it to him as an "Well, I won't detain you for 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 could it matter, anyway? Prepos such as himself are to have their her hopes and her fears about the examined it and approved it. He lying in bod. Have you seen the terous to attach the least sight- ficance to a dream-and such a 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 rise before them. He seriously con- ing her elaborate plan. Well, his more than he paid in Half Moon Had he seen the papers! He had her because of a dream, he would sidered 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 ought to be organized for the full He had dreamed of a lamp-lit, he wanted service. Flats represent- like a flag in all of them. Up to have fallen to the Intellectual 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- was unusual; he still had not the girl! He had dreamed of a as lihe house in Half Moon Street about her in the nows. Now she theless his mind was in a wild private care in the world. But girl. There were thousands of was a survival as quaint and ex-was the news. 'Opening in another. 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 carea, a hundred or two. Well, he had Doors in the intest block of pro- Soho, in a play by a famous aued his sonsibilities. But what Then he was furious. He even met another one. In his dream fusely gadgeted ints would not thor, a play of which she had would you? You couldn't expect doubted whether life was worth he had had no clear vision of the annoyingly click. He would move, made a success in New York. to have everything In one girl. living. He had not thanked the girl. He had had merely an Im-fe would march with the age. He Short biographies of her. 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 rean to her. Portraits of her.. And ly, so enthusiastic. And allow- evening. He had quitted Miss geatures. He had not dreamed actionary, There were old men last night she had not said a word ances must be made for the ex Friar with the grossest, 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 joven the installation of modern ligently had not shown curiosity licity. wards the light, and the flimsy nearly all actresses lived

in a luvatorica. He would not raise a as to her plans. The first-night curtains and blind were no pro-world of superlatives and had ex-whining chant like a man of was evidently to be a prodigious tection against the light. And jaggerated gestures. He was ac-seventy. He was under forty; he and glittering pomp. Stalle two the bed-table WAB too small, quainted with actresses. He was a was young, and young he would guineas aplece." and

the switch of the bed-theatre-goer, a firstnighter.... bo. He would spring blithely out "The plan was all altered only light too high to reach without The scones of the dying woman, of the forlorn groove of Half yesterday afternoon," she said, an effort. Mra. Bowers

his the dead womun, on the bed was Moon Street... Decision de- when he had spoken. "They had a landlady, was a survival from tragic, in memory. Champagne, finitely renched in one second, be- musical comedy for that theatre, the novels of Dickens and deserv-no doubt. He had drunk half affore the man and the little tea- but it's fallen through or some- ed to be told off about a hundred bottle at the club; champagne tray had appeared in the doorway, thing, and I m to take its place. detalls, 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, chatty to the man who to come to the first-night, I'll send ly philosophical Roland Lane ed, as it had been disturbed-very had once been a footman in Groa-you a stall. I'd send you two if Smith, exemplar to modern youth, Iridiculously by the pseudo-ful-lvenor Square and with whom hel you insisted, but that wouldn't be

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(To be continued.)

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