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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1933.

MASTERPIECE||

The Late Arnold Bennett's Last Long Story UNFINISHED

"DREAM OF DESTINY”

(Copyright Strictly Reserved.)

BYNOPSIS.

Reland Lane Bolth, young #1

Phoebe Friar, who speedily impron him

Boquaintanceahip, baing fearful of the

but fads himself drawn

-

Phoebe's misfortune had slain her

jealousy; and Nancy's ambition was Arnold Bennett's last to help Phoebe to taste the wondrous long story was left

emotions which once she herself

shafts

unfinished, but this

does not spoil its worth or

readable

quality, but rather adds a mystery valué|| which will be found very intriguin

DR. SCHOBER'S PAPERS

SOME SECRETS OF HISTORY

Not expecting his death. so early, Dr. Schober left no will and not a single letter. In the

The New

had felt. And, so far, Nancy imagined, not without some justif~ considered, and extravagant; but her eyes had shed their disdain, cation, that she was succeeding in about they were superb and illustrated the The pair might have been alone in her aweot project. Her eyes were town principally, merts young actress, strange heroical grandeur of her the lounge; they indeed were alone, charged with an approving, en- the girl of a vivid stream he had had oul. And her eyes! He had never as Phoebe and Roland were alone. Couraging tenderness, while sho few nights presiously. He Dechts shy of her mot 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 the her deals fler a slows Intimacy between might say that she was not exactly Then Nancy entered, peering, and porting Mr. Friar leher parabula toward her. To keep away from her for beautiful: but those persons were the figures of Mr. and Mrs. Friar tione of the garden. But Roland and attendis dinner party in which she dofinition of beauty?

fortnight, but cannut keep it up ang lunger blind. And was not she herself the were discernible in the garden be-was highly perturbed, and though ka lso been invited.

of ecstatic pleasure shot What she yond the glass door. Nancy ap- Was-that was beauty. And let proached the engaged couple and through the misery he remained NOW CO ON WITH THE STORY

there be no argument. Now and bent over them. She was beholding minorable. Why did not Mrs, Friar then, in the ardour of looking at her handiwork and savouring it and her deaf, egotistical husband CHAPTER V.

hor, he forgot to listen to her, and Deprived of her help, the couple enter the lounge and break the Phoebe and Roland were sitting a 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 was possessing the great soul, and formality of dinner being concluded, don? Why did they at length enter did not care. Wordless, his soul was a creative goddess. And the interminably dawdling in the gar- lounge', a large, low room partly bulit out at the back of the house, was missing no particle of it. His she had no objection to this show and break the spell?

"Phoebe, darling," said Mrs. with nothing but glass and a glazed ympathy for her, his understand- of their plighted intimacy. Con- door between it and the garden. It ing of her, was so profound that he vention had been satisfied. Roland Friar, in her clear, affectionate the three voice. "Your father is tired. Ho was apparently destined to be the could have wept. Not really wept: could faintly overhear favourite resort of the household but he would have enjoyed a tear, chatting in the distance of the thinks he ought to go home."

could she not have noticed it.

lounge. And Phæbe, oblivious still un summer evenings. Obscurely

"Yes, munimy,” said the obedient as Roland had been a few minutes duughter, star of the stage, accus- lighted by occasional well- Then she was in the world of the earlier, went on talking. And then tomed to flattery and applause and ahaded lamp, it provided an ident stage, striving to win success out Nancy, teaving scene for discreet duologues. From of failure, and unhappy in the hursh Millicent, moved towards Roland hand kissed and she jumped up.

Tommy and kissing her hand and having her his casy chair Roland could discern task and in the ruthless environ- and Phoebe, and maternally bent the dimness of the unbounded garment. And he himself was like her over them as she had bent over the "Conceited old tyrant," thought secret archives he had taken over den and distfiguish 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-chaible thing, and that story about bor of highly confidential docu- analyse for him her reni attitude) Plavbe. He did not analyse bisness. But Roland was self- the bottle of port was worth bear- towards the stage which was her sensations as she analysed hers. conscious. AI awful suspicion, ing. His misery was in a for-ments, especially concerning the career; how she hated it, and italie accepted them incuriously; he which grew instantly into a cor- giving mood. Phoebe, could the breakdown of the dual monarchy meannesses and general disorder was in their grip. Nevertheless, taiaty, invaded and monopolized his divined it, would have liked his in autumn 1918, and containing liness of mind, and how she could to say that he was not happy was mind. "She's fixed Tommy. She's charitableness; and so he was all the historic details and an be happy neither with it or without absurd. Only he was so happy that fixed my closest friend. And she's pleased with his charitableness, act description of the personages it. The duologue had become a 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,

with the breakdown. terested in all that she said; he observe Millicent and Tommy sit-Another

to means to fix me. Another match! house, stayed behind.

The archives also contain all the Announcernent in The admired the acuteness of her dia ing close to each other

Darling," said Mrs. Friar at the section of complex feelings, and he chair, by the gings wall. Frighten-gling on

on two Times" He felt like a fly strug front door, joining Phobo and Ro- wag warm with sympathy for her ed because, though he had a full aspect of his predicament over der whether Mr. Smith could bear

pin. The unhappy land together by a glance, "I won in her quandary. But I admired view of the glass door he had not whelmed him. He hated to run being asked to dine with us one still more her, her manner of exist seen them come in. The chairs had away, and desired more than any night." Evidently Roland had 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- could perceive in her, no, nothing cupied. Sinister magle! In what Naney. But at the same time the quests. Or had Nancy been but perfection. She was restless alarming kind of state was he? as usual-and her restlessness was felt for the fraction of an instanted to him, and he comprehended and hint in her ear? The prison of the He secret of Nancy's zeal was reveal-whispering a preliminary prudent delicious. She could not make the as if he ought to consult a doctor. forgave her. She was a best of an expensive and lovely But Millicent was not smiling her she was a mere widow; she had had contracted. Many doors had widow dream was suffocating to Roland, frock, and her negligence in the tastidious smile now, She was finished with marital love, and she the mysterious cell, but none could wearing of it proved for him the under the spell of the male, who fervently wished to see love bloom superiority of her character.

be forced. Her touched her hand on her knee. Then in others. For a week or two.she gestures as usual were free. she smiled, softly acquiescent. And had been jealous of Phabe; but

(To be continued.)

authentic dates of Crown-Prince

death at Mayerling Coatle. These Rudolf's premature and tragic

secret documents will be handed over to the new President, not yet appointed. Whether the au- anything for publication remains to be thorities will liberate

circles that several of the person- seen, although it is held by police

agús mentioned being already dend, there would be no harm in doing so.

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