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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Mar. 10 (Domel)-Sir SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH": John Grieg Latham, Australian WASHINGTON, Mar, 19 (UP)- Minister to Japan, visited the Foreign Dr van Kleffens, Premier of the Omee this afternoon to confer with exiled Netherlands Government, ne- Mr Chulchi Ohashi, Vice-Minister for companied by Dr Loudon the Nether- Foreign Affairs, for 15 minutes. innds Ambassador and Mr Sumner Welles, Under Secretory of State, to-

day pald n visit to President Roo and Lense programme saying: "It la sevelt, at the White House.

on admirable instance of the Presi- |dent's governing capacity.”.

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conversations dealt broadly with M. Weller, the Dutch Minister of world affairs and ha praised Presid- | Colonies will accompany him on his ent Roosevelt's direction of-the-Lend trip to Batavin.

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Chapter One

I dreamt I went to Mander- ley again, last night. I dreamt of Manderley, and saw the house once again in its great beauty-a thing of grace, ex- quisite and faultless. Its clean, grey stone mellowed by centuries, it looked down upon the bright gardens and trim velvet lawns which swept in terrace after terrace to the деп. Framed by the smooth grassland and magnificent trees, it surveyed the rich. land which had been its own since Elizabeth reigned.

We can never go back there again. The past is still too close to us. But sometimes in my dreams I do go back to Manderley, and to the strange days of my life which began, for me, on the top of a cliff, in the south of France..

How different we are now, and how much time has passed since then! It is as though each of us can come to peace only after having endured the trial of fire and of our own particular devils, as we have. It is as though only in peace, does each moment live its full, long life. He sits before me now, and his steady, well- shaped hands are peeling tangerine in quiet, methodical fashion, and I remember him on the cliff's crest, in France. I know then, that first mo- ment, that he was in agony, was about to leave...

I saw him, from behind, and screamed; sercumed light- ly, to be able to at all, the moment seemed so desperate, He wheeled, and came away from the crest of the cliff.

Even then, in the light of day, his face was full of dark- ness and pain. There was light grey in his hair, giving his handsome face a lightness that must have been missing when he was young. He spoke gruly to me, and I hastened away down the road to the hotel. A minute later he was driving up alongside, offering me a lift, which I refused. He drove away.

When I returned to the hotel (the Hotel de Paris, as I recall), I found Mrs Van Hopper in a particularly ugly mood and most bitter over the lack of well-known per- sonalities at Monte Carlo. I was in the employ of Mrs Van Hopper, as a companion, and I suppose I endured her sloppiness and repulsive snob- bery quite well. Not only was she my employer, but I was slight and very shy; she had few restraints before me.

Ant After dinner, as we

in the lobby, we saw him, I was terrified to see that Mrs Van Ifopper knew him; with some effort, she mobilised her- self for a gushing welcome. As he made his way across the room, he looked right through me. "Why, it's Max de Winter," she whispered, and immediately poured forth: "Mr de Winter! How do you do?" He seemed quite will- ing to avold her, or us, but falled before hor jabbery rush of talk. He was harpooned,

and also, apparently, some- what piqued; to be rid of her, he made several incredibly in- sulting remarks, which she well deserved but of course did not notice. When he had left she told me that his place, Manderley, "Couldn't be beat for beauty" and that she had heard he couldn't get over the denth of his wife, who had drowned while sailing. The next morning, she came down with influenza,

The days that came, quick- ly, after Mrs Van Hopper was taken ill, are to this day strangely without number. I can only remember how much I enjoyed them, and how much I came to life with them.

I can remember that first morning, breakfasting with- out her, and suddenly with him when he commanded me to join him. Then, the long rides to the shore and to the cliffs, and the excuse of tennis lessons to Mrs Van Hopper, and how he spoke of Mander- ley, with a great and lonely love. On Mrs Van Hopper's last bed-ridden day, which was

and get out ?" This was more than I could understand, and the tears came quickly, He gave me his handkerchief.

"And don't call me Mr de Winter," he stormed on, half laughingly. "It makes me feel more aged than I am. I have several first numes-George Fortescue Maximilian. You don't have to bother with all of them. My family calls me Maxim

I looked up at him, and was swept into his arms, to his kiss.

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Mrs Van Hopper very sud- denly decided to leave for New York. We were to suil im- mediately. In the rush of preparations and packing. I tried frantically to reach Maxim on the telephone. Fail- ing, I left everything and went to his room, and found him just out of the bath. I told him. I had come to say good- bye, and of the hateful jour- ney to New York,

"Why in Heaven's name go with her then?" he asked.

"I've told you-I can't af ford to lose my job."

He picked up his clothes from a chair and went into the. bathroom, leaving the door half open. "Which would you prefer--New York or Mander- ley I heard him say.

"Please don't joke about it," I said. "Mrs Van Hopper's waiting-I think I'd better say goodbye."

Mrs Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.” "Do you mean you want a Secretary or something?"

"No, I'm asking you to

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my own Inst day of freedom, we drove for hours.

We spoke sparsely, half-gay and half-depressed, until he asked to know what I was thinking.

"I'm thinking that you know everything there is to know about me," I snid, "but that I know nothing more about you than I did the first day we met."

"And what was that?"

"That you own Manderley and that you had lost your wife."

The car's speed increased. He said nothing, somehow ten- sely.

"I wish I were a woman of thirty-six, dressed in black satin, with a string of pearls!" I blurted.

"You wouldn't be here with me if you were." Then, to answer my empty, hungry look, he went on: "I asked you to come with me because I wanted your company. You've blotted out the past for me far more than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But if you think I'm just being chari- table or kind, leave the car now and find your own way home! Go on, open the door "I repeat what I said either you go to America_with_

marry me, you little fool."

I sut dulled, and feeling un- real, with my hands in my lap. "But you don't understand,”

I said. "I'm not the sort of person men marry."

"What on earth do you mean?"

"Well, I don't belong in your sort of world-in Manderley

for one thing."

"I'm the person to judge whether you belong there or not. Of course, if you don't love me, that's different. A fine blow to my conceit!"

"I do love you! I love you drend- fully. I've been miserable and I've been crying all morning because 1 thought I should never see you'

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He laughed, and gave hand, "Bless you for that," he said quietly, "All right then-it's set- tled."

I begged him to tell Mrs Van Hopper, whose restraint over fury and snobbish surprise, when she heard, was remarkabic. She was quite brutal and vulgar toward me when he left the room, of course,

That same day Muxim and I were married by the Mayor, Wo drove north to England, and to Manderley's Kreat iron gates, Junt as we were winding up the drive- way-just before I first now the magnificent house-It began to rain. The car was open, and my hair fell in wet wisps around my face.

To_ba continued to-morrow)

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