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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1932.

The Late Arnold Bennett's Last Long Story

"DREAM OF DESTINY”

(Copyright Strictly Reserved.)

STROPBIS.

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NOW GO ON WITH THE STORT

CHAPTER V..

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Phoebe's misfortune had slain her Jealousy; and Nancy's ambition was

UNFINISHED

MASTERPIECE

Arnold Bennett's last

to help Phobo to taste the wondrous long story was left

emotions which once she herself

had felt. And, so far, Nancy unfinished, but this Imagined, not without some justifi-

от

cation, that she was succeeding in does not spoil its her sweet project. Her eyes were worth charged with an approving,

en-

said Mrs. affectionate

readable but rather adds a mystery value which will be found very intriguing.

DR. SCHOBER'S PAPERS

SOME SECRETS OF HISTORY

B0

The New

considered, and extravagant; but her eyes had shed their disdain, they were superb and illustrated the The pair might have been alone in strange heroical grandeur of her the lounge; they indeed were alone, the Rishalivid dream he had had soul. And her eyes! He had never as Phoebe and Roland were alone. cuuraging tenderness, while shequality, few nich previously. He Bahis shy of her met the gaze of such eyes in any "She isn't so bad after all," thought chatted about the beauty of the ment of the dream, which ended tragically other girl. And her voice. Some Roland on the surface of his mind. night and about Mrs. Friar sup in her death after cives intimacy between might say that she was not exactly Then Nancy entered, peering, and porting Mr. Friar in her perambula- towards her. He keeps away from ties for beautiful; but those persons were the figures of Mr. and Mrs. Friar tions of the garden. But Roland shafts of ecstatic pleasure shot And it but cannot keep it up any longer hiind. And was not she herself the ware discernible in the garden bewas highly perturbed, and though and attente a dinner party to which she definition of beauty? What she yond the glans door. Nancy through the misery be remained was-that was beauty. And lotproached the engaged couplo and there be no argument. Now and bent over them. She was boholding miserable. Why did not Mrs, Friar then, in the ardour of looking at bor handiwork and savouring it and her deaf, egotistical husband her, he forget to listen to her, and Deprived of her help, the couple enter the lounge and break the Pheobe and Roland were sitting sentence or two was lost. But he might never have been engaged. She spell? Why in hell were they so in what Nancy had christened the did not care. Wordless, his soul was a creative goddess. And the interminably dawdling in the gar lounge', a large, low room partly was possessing the great Boul, and formality of dinner being concluded, den? Why did they at length enter

Hia he had no objection to this show and break the spell?

"Phobe, darling," built out at the back of the house, was missing no particle of it. with nothing but glass and a glazed sympathy for her, his understand. of their plighted intimacy. Con door between it and the garden. It lng of her, was so profound that ho vention had been satisfied. Roland Frlar, in her clear,

of the thinks he ought to go home." was apparently destined to be the could have wept. Not really wopt: could faintly overhear the three volee. "Your father is tired. Ho favourite resort of the household but he would have enjoyed a tear, chatting in the distance

lounge. And Phoobe, oblivious stil) Yes, mummy," said the obedient could she not have noticed it. on summer evenings. Obscurely

as Roland had been a few minutes daughter, star of the stage, accus-

Not expecting his death lighted by an occasional well- Then she was in the world of the earlier, went on talking. And then tomed to flattery and applause and shaded lamp. It provided an ideal stage, striving to win success out Nancy, Teaving Tommy and

kissing her hand and having her early, Dr. Schober left no will sceno for discreet duologues. From of failure, and unhappy in the harsh Millicent, moved towards Roland hand kissed and she jumped up. and not a single latter. In the his easy chair Roland could discorn task arid in the ruthless environ- and Thobe, and maternally bent

"Conceited old tyrant," thought secret archives he had taken over the dimness of the unbounded garment. And he himself was like hor over them as she had bent over the don

and distinguish figures far in this. He was not happy with other pair, and she began, to chat, Roland. "How they pander to him, from his predecessor as chief of away palely or darkly strolling something, and he was not happy Phoebe looking innocently up at her, his women. Still, he did say one the police, there are a large num about. Phoebe was trying to without it. The something was with no symptom of self-conscious-seraible thing, and that story about ber of highly confidential docu- analyse for him her real attitude Phrebe. He did not analyse his ress. But Roland WAX aclf-the bottle of port was worth hear

ments, capecially concerning the fowards the stage which wna her sensations as she analysed hers. conscious. An awful suspicion, ing." His misery was in a for- career; how she hated it and its Ile accepted them incuriously; he which grew instantly into a cer- giving mood. Phoebe, could she breakdown of the dual monarchy meatineases and general disorder was in their grip. Nevertheless, tainty, invaded and monopolized his divined it, would have liked his in autumn 1918, and containing

was all the historic details lineas of mind, and how she could to say that he was not happy was mind. "She's fixed Tommy. She's charitableneas; and so he be happy neither with it or without absurd. Ohly he was so happy that fixed my closest friend. And she's pleased with his charitableness, act description of the personages with the breakdown. it. The duologue had become his happiness frightened him. Then triumphant about it, and now she Tommy and Millicent, pets of the connected monologue. Roland was very in he was startled, frightened, to means to fix me. Another match house, stayed behind.

The archives also contain all the terested in all that she said; he observe Millicent and Tommy sit Another

Darling," said Mrs. Friar at the admired the acuteness of her dia ing close to each other en two Times/" He felt like a fly strug front door, joining Phæbe and Ro authentic dates of Crown-Prince and tragle .section of complex feelings, and he chairg by the glass wall. Frighten- gling on a pin. The unhappy land together by a glance, "I won-Rudolfa premature

was warm with sympathy for her ed because, though he had a full aspect of his predicament over-der whether Mr. Smith could bear death at Mayerling Castle. These in her quandary. But he admired view of the glass door he had not whelmed him. He hated to run being asked to dine with us ono secret documents will be handed had over to the now President, not still more her, her manner of exist roun them come in. The chairs had away, and desired more than any night." Evidently Roland ing, from moment to moment. He been empty. The chairs were oc- thing to run Away. He hated made of Mrs. Friar one of his con-

had Nancy

yet appointed. Whether the au- been could perceive in her, no, nothing cupled. Sinister magic! In what Nancy. But at the same time the quests. Or but perfection. She was restless alarming kind of state was he? le secret of Nancy's zeal was revent- whispering a preliminary prudent thorities will liberate anything as ugun--and her restlessness was felt for the fraction of an instant ed to him, and he comprehended and hint in her car? The prison of the for publication remains delicious. She could not make the us if he ought to consult doctor. forgave her. She was a widow dream was suffocating to Roland, seen, although it is held by police beat of an expensive and lovely But Millicent was not smiling her she was a mere widow; she had had contracted. Many doors had circles that several of the person- frock, and her negligence in the instidious amile now, She WILS finished with marital love, and she the mysterious cell, but none could

mentioned being already nges -wearing of it proved for him the under the spell of the malo, who fervently wished to see love bloombe forced. superiority of her character. Her touched her hand on her knee. Then in others. For a week or two she

free, gestures as usual were

she smiled, softly acquiescent. And had been jealous of Phabe; but

un

announcement in

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(To bo continued.)

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