[The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett]@TWC D-Link bookThe Grand Babylon Hotel CHAPTER Thirty CONCLUSION 5/11
Possibly to this day she survives, a mystery to her fellow-creatures, in the pension of some cheap foreign boarding-house.
As for Rocco, he certainly was heard of again.
Several years after the events set down, it came to the knowledge of Felix Babylon that the unrivalled Rocco had reached Buenos Aires, and by his culinary skill was there making the fortune of a new and splendid hotel. Babylon transmitted the information to Theodore Racksole, and Racksole might, had he chosen, have put the forces of the law in motion against him.
But Racksole, seeing that everything pointed to the fact that Rocco was now pursuing his vocation honestly, decided to leave him alone.
The one difficulty which Racksole experienced after the demise of Jules--and it was a difficulty which he had, of course, anticipated--was connected with the police.
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