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f $said MacArthur. Teper be reeds hod to 8 with it. 4 “Senator M tnkse purges.” He seemed yery jatnty, obviously pleased to be back even if he went around saying . he was convinced that America had : gone mad and was determined on war. note fo. oo During the ; Maclean had made a great effort | to, fit into his new existence S85 | afcommuter. Mrs. Maclean Wat | went out to le down to sleep in the to| hall, stretched out on go to cocktail parties in order not to | figure from a shelter sketch-book. miss his evening train to Kent. By | The departing guests had to make May. however, he seemed to be, thei ‘ r way over him, and I noticed more about London of an evening, . that, sithough in apparent . could” sar it there Wes B2Y ~ he would raise his long stiff leg Nke sudden increase in these outings © drawbridge when one of the after the return of Guy Burgess. On one occasion in April, after some feint attacks, he knocked down one of nis greatest friends for taking the side of Whittaker Chambers in the Hiss case. Chambers, according to Donald, was a double- , faced exhibition- ist too revolting to be defended . by anyone. . Donald's drink- ing followed an < established - cle hy,” said Bur- Ma an well and almost | house: it was divided into two, and | door and I let him in, sober-drunk, | the frst time T had seen him tn nald | this legendary condition. He began winter ore. to wander round the room, bijinking at the guests ‘as he divided to bed in his absent friend's flat and gave him an Alka-Seltze breakfast in the morning. : On May 25, the day when Burgess and Macleari left England, I arranged to greet some friends in ' Schmidt's before Junching down =. ane — — the street at the Etotle. :-We met in the road. Donald was with them, looking rather creased and yellow, casual but diffident. We all stood ‘on the pavement. “You're Cyril Connolly, aren't you? ~I'm Sir Donald Maclean"; this Unexpected Visit from ig Mrs Maclean as“ “Territlefatmosphere. All, AFTER & dinner-party on May 15 j f } six of us came back te my ’ Donald occasionally spent the night in the other flat. Past mid- night there was a battering on the the ;nearby and sheep from the goats, and then ,;2@y the stqne goats was trying to pass, I put him “night on a special week-end cruise packed into two suitcases I said to him, ° oo . { Ronald FUR le 7 Sider aan teen TE ; Styles”. Burgess had engaged OF" Pr parations,, ra. car by telephone at about two - Journey; ts BM o'clock and then gone round, paid B . had‘ bes ed eh the deposit, and undergone a brief ‘driving test. At 6.30 he © had freceived @ jong ‘telephone call at | After : tickets on the Wednesdey hi said the other name for the cabi: would probably be Miller; and oi - Thursday night he seemed to be i ‘an agitated state “looking for th: {sober dinner Donald and “Ronald” ,friend who was going with him.’ iwalked in the garden, Donald | He seems to have spent much 0. ‘then said that they had to | Priday with Miller, fetching hin rgo to see a friend who lived 'from the Green Park Hotel in th: that he might have to: morning and lunching with him away for the night. He At two e’clock he rings ub from promised that he would return on ihis club for the hired car, Vistt: {The morrow and took only his brief-/the garage with Miller, parks th: ‘ease with him when he left jcar near his New Bond Btreet fat — rn ~{mackintosh he ied noe wactin : , . : ‘ (he “noe mackin. Midnight Arrival at '{osp, 0 fibre suitcase and a ox Ly - ;many nylon shirts which, did not Be Southampton - cs ee es ‘HE: pair got into the hired car “At 6.25 he left Miller at hi ° T and drove to Southampton just hotel, saying “See you at 7.30. in time to reach the cross-Channel\He then went back to his flat which left at mid-'recetved the telephone call anc dnd a to Saint Malo end back by the briefcase four suits, his shirts Channel Islands, returning early on blue jeans, socks, handkerchiefs :Mgnday morning. “What about and his gaudy coltection of ties— car?” yelled @ port garage an extensive wardrobe for two fa nights at sea. At seven he had a last drink at his club. Later that evening the American rabg up jhe flat to know why he had not been Maclean's day, was apparently quite inactive. Burgess is the agent. fa quiet. and rather 1" be vessel Falaise, attendant, Burgess 1on*Monday.” . . He had booked the two-berth eabin at Victoria on the Wednesday ‘in his own name, and on that day had invited a young American, cried: ° Bac ine. ~ e- reference to our conversation at his Maclean the patient, and there is AO ing Ths ‘club was intended to efface our Jast Whom he introduced to various nothing to show thalDonald in- amiable sell was meeting. He seemed calm and People 8s. Miller" and whom he tended going anywhe¥g until he gradually left.) genial, and went off gally to con- ae met on the Queen Mary, was driven off from his house by behind, and the" tinue. the luncheon with his ’ When returning from Washington, Burgess. His . birthday ‘luncheon hand which » ‘friends, who were to rejoin me for | 0 accompany him. But Burgess jasted from 12.30 until after 2.30 patted his friend coffee. ’ .: *)~6i let him down at the last moment. ly ae ee ee ‘ on the back. ™ At luncheon, they told me when became a flail A change would they came back, he had been mel- come. into his voice like the low and confidential; he had rull of drums for the cabaret. talked about himself, about how | It took “the form of an out- much better he felt, how he didn't burst of indignation, often directed ‘have to visit his psycho-analyst ro against himself, in which the ‘often, and how he was determined embittered idealist would aban- to take a hold on himself lest he don all compromise and castigate got into any trouble which might all forms of humbug and pretence. \pring disgrace upon his children. ‘As the hast train left for Sevenoaks { That day was his birthday. The from faraway Charing Cross he ‘luncheon was his treat, and the would wave a large hand, in some week after he was getting some par, io his companions, “ Well, any- ‘compassionate leave, for his wife how, you're all right. And you are !would be going ta hospital for the 1 ali right.” The elected smiled hap- 'paby: he asked if he could come, pily, but doubt was spreading like a ‘cown and visit my friendg for game frown on Caliguia. “ Walt—I'm not part of the time. They had been sure.. Perhaps you aren't all right. -yery kind to him when he was ill, After all, you this and this. and he was now in effect making fact, you're v@y wrong. ‘You them a favourable report. - n't do at all.” GBi/f. And as for: Arter spending the afternoon in yqu—you're the Worst of the lot, ‘his office he went, off to Charing bat TY suppose T mast forgive you.” Crosa and caught his usual train Sevenoaks, ° That Mee bo ~-— Burgess arrived ced 4n a hired car—and was introdu . J " 4 never cancelled. : evening J at Donald’s house { reached~ Paris, . via at Tatsfield—he had ‘driven dquna between. five and six. ” - champagne and: oysters at Wheeler's, then some’ more’: solid food at Schmidt's; he was at work till 6.30 and he went home by his usual train. But it may be that the telephone call which Burgess ; (- Tecolved at 5.30 was some kind of é rom Maclean. “ “At Saint Malo, where the bozt’ During May Burgess had had his arrived at 10 a.m, the two stayed. worries, but -he had -been offered on board, breakfasting and drink+ an important Job on a newspap Tl “eleven ‘they. too, went and he was going oui to dinner hen at eleven ‘ : » WANE. otig jl ashore,- leaving behind Burgess’s ch this on. the day he vanish two suitcases. At the station, which the Paris express had Just left~ (they would have had plenty of. time to catch it) they took a tax!” to Rennes, the Junction some fifty: miles away. They did not speak on the way. ‘They gave no tip to the driver on the fare of 4,500 ‘francs and they arrived at Rennes | latation’-in' time” to “catch the express again, ' They were not noticed on © the john | Burgess seems to have had the idea ‘of & long holiday in France in his imind, but that was unconnected with the week-end jaunt. For this Friday evening he had an impor: tant dinner engagement which h i i wehin! = Waalan t uke ai, auction eb LLL, Perr ae