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CHAPTER XLIX 247 % glorious night we met in Venice." "In Venice!" cries the startled Reginald. "Then you are ?" "The veiled lady," she confirms, as she burrows a little deeper into his collar bone. This is the first you have heard of the matter. This story is supposed to have started only six months before and it develops that this all happened some time previously when Reginald drove off a horde of beggars that were pestering the American Signorina, but this must presently be used to explain the advent of the haughty Venetian nobleman who met the girl while she was there, and so the story starts in Venice a couple of years before the author starts to tell about happenings. You must arrange all these events in the order of their occurrence, even though you may plan to make some of them fact visions. It is t)etter not to use visions, but even if you do, start with the fact in its proper place in the chronology. 14. The fiction author is free of the fetters of time. Sometimes fact gains in importance through temporary suppression. It is easy, when this is recalled, to have some character tell it all in the form of a narrative. The author is telling his entire story in words. He can waste a few to orient the time. The adaptor must be economical of his leaders if his action is to be something more than a few illustrations of quotations from the book. To take a compact ex- ample, let us consider the address of Spartacus to the Gladiators, familiar to most schoolboys. The author first draws a picture of night in the Coliseum. In their dens the wild beasts lie in uneasy slumber. In the apartments of the gladiators Spartacus steps forth to address the men whom he captains. One of his first speeches is to the effect that they do well to call him chief who for many years has met in the arena men and beasts and remains uncon- quered. This single speech takes us from the moment over a vista of years. Almost immediately he brings us back with "Today, in the arena." He tells of his killing his boyhood friend and appeals to his fellows to follow his lead in a dash for freedom from a condition little better than the beasts in the dens. 15. To sketch the action as it runs we would get something like th is: 1. It is night in the quarters of the gladiators. Spartacus, their chief, addresses them. 3. He tells how he has gained his leadership through his many victories. 4. He speaks of the display of that afternoon. 5. He slew his opponent, only to discover the friend of his boy- hood days. 6. He tells of that boyhood. 7. Of his friendship with the other. S. Of his growth to manhood. 9. Of his capture. 10. He reverts to the events of the afternoon. 11. He pleads with his followers to revolt, offering to lead them to freedom.