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QO é ‘nought he had said Macarthur. and asked Wi hs hed to with it. “Senator M ." said Bur- Maclean mosphere. All, AFTER « dinner-party on May 1 . + i “ Territle thbse purges.” , six of us came, back to my ‘well and almost ‘ house: it was divided into two, it on | door and I | the first time I had seen him tn Donald | this legendary condition. He began eat effort to Wander round the room, blinking at the guests ‘as he divided the sheep from the goats, and. then. ‘went out to le down to sleep in the to} hall, stretched out on the stone to, floor under his overcoat like some | figure from @ shelter sketch-book. ' The departing guests had to make * their way over him, and I noticed that, although in apparent coma, « he would raise his long stiff leg ike 8 ree: ton one of ibe « was pass. I put him to bed in his absent friend's flat and gave him an Alka-Sel breakfast tn the morning. On May 25, the day when to, fit into a ‘commuter. expecting another Mrs. Maclean child, Donald conscientiously refused go to cocktail parties in order not was | miss his evening train to Kent. By May. however, he seemed to be more about London of an evening, and {t would be interesting if we could discover if there was any sudden increase in these outings after the return of Guy Burgess. On one in April, after some feint attacks, he knocked down one of his greatest friends for taking the side of Whittaker Glamnere ‘in the Hiss case, Burgess and Maclean left England, Shambers, according to Donald, 1arranged to greet some friends In was a doubl . Schmidt's before Junching down Ineed exhibitions "7 — ~ the street at the Etoile. We met in | jst too revolting the road. Donald was with them, to be Gerended looking rather creased and yellow, by anyone. casual but diffident. We ail stood ‘Donald's eo on the pavement. I said to him, ing followed an < “You're Cyril Connolly, aren't you? { established ; I'm Sir Donald Maclean”; this ‘} routine. ~ The ° reference to our conversation at his club was intended to efface our Jast meeting. He seemed calm and ually left: genial, and went off gally to con- behind, and the * tinue the luncheon with his hand which: friends, who were to rejoin me for patted nis friend ; __, _Soflee. cy vot on the ™ ot — 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 toll of drums for the cabaret. It took “the form of an out- burst of indignation, often directed against himself, which the embittered idealist would aban- much better he felt, how he didn’t have to visit his psycho-analyst #0 ‘often, and how he was determined to take a hold on himself lest he don all compromise and castigate got into any trouble which might alt forms of humbug and pretence. pring disgrace upon his children. ‘As the last train left for Sevenoaks | That day was his birthday. The from faraway Charing Cross he juncheon was his treat, and the would wave a large hand, in some jweek after he was getting some bar, to his ns. “ Well, any- ‘compassionate leave, for his wife how, you're all right. And you are would be going to hospital for the all right.” ‘The elected smiled hap- ‘baby; he asked !f he could come pily, but doubt was spreading like !down and visit my friendg for some frowrf on Caligula. “ Walt—I'm not part of the time. They had been suré., 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. mt do at all. GBisf. And as for: After spending the afternoon in @ th rat of the lot, ‘his office he went, off to Charing OU.” Croce and caught his usual train Sevenoaks. “That evening — Burgess arrived at Donald’s house at Tatsfeld—he had driven 6 4m a hired car—and was introduced 5 28. Unexpected Visit fromio Mm Maclean as 5 o'clock and and sa f be! Donald occasionally spent tthe | received tzer “| talked about himself, about how ; “ Ronald Burgess had engaged — car by telephone at about two then gone round, paid the deposit, and undergone abrief ving test. Btyles.” Weel pers as © At 630 be” hed |.aiq the other name for the cabit _& long telephone call at | would probably be Miller; and oi it and rather an for th: Ronald.” ; fri him.’ 1d | He seems to have spent much 0. |Pridag with Miller, {¢ hin from the Green Park his flat", After & quiet dinner Donald and “ alked in the garden. Donal ‘then said that they had to 1go to seo a friend who lived jnearby that he might have Slay é He’ At two promised that he would return 01 is the morrow and took only his brief- case with him when he left | -+ year near his N . _. 1, and goes shopping, bu Midnight Arrival at |msctinteah ‘me ee Southampton... ‘many nylon shirts which, did no: ‘ae: pair got into the hired car -At 6.25 ‘he left Miller et hi TE PaO to Southampton just hotel, saying “See you at 7.30. jin time to reach the cross-Channel}He then went back to his flat Yeseel Fataise, which left at mid-;cecetved the telephone call, anc night on @ special week-end cruise packed into two suitcases dnd & sto Saint ‘end back by the brief-case four sults, his shirts. Channel Islands, returning early on blue jeans, socks, handkerchiefs. mday morning. What about and his gaudy collection of ties car?” yelled @ port an extensive wardrobe for two or nights at sea. At seven he had a . Jast drink at his club. Later that colonia Te SUD Say be hoa Sot ees at ict ia on the esa "s b us oun heme: and on that day qi Maclean Oy wose is ie agent had invited a young American, Qraciean the patient, and Mnece ts whom he introduced to various pevhing to show that-Donald in- people 85. “Miller "and whom he tended going anywh had met on the Queen Mary, was driven off from his house by when returning from Washington, juncheon {9 accompany him. But Burgess Bureess ate ne ‘duncheon ‘let him down at the last moment. _'champagne and; 03 ‘at Burgess seems to have had the idea wneeler's, then . oysters id ‘of # long holiday in France in his - some | mare: solid 1 Blind: bat thas’ was unconnected {204 st Schmidt's; he was at work : t 1 till 6.30 and he went home by his with the week-end jaunt. For this eee vening he had ‘am impor, usual train. But it may be that tant dinner engagement, which he {ee eae oe en ind of eee ae io where the boat © Osten Meccan. . arrived at 10 am. the two stayed, worties put he rea bees Rea. ;on board, breakfasting and drink4 an important Job on a newspal t ing beet uD the others had left. and he was going out to dinner hen at eleven ‘they, , went. otigch ashore. leaving behind Burgess this on the day he vi two suitcases. At the station, which the Paris express had Just left> (they would have had plenty ot time to catch it) they took @ 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 tation’: in’ time” to = catch express again. ' They were not Fnoticed ;on the train, which ached attpndant, Burgess cried: : the train, re - {between five and six. ment they