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You have chosen to serve a machine that won't go, and I daresay that you are wise. Yes, I think that it is the better part until you find someone that will make it go and then you would adore her by aerophone!" Presently Morris heard a step upon the lawn, and turned to see his father sauntering towards him.
I went to the door and opened it, and by the light of the moon I saw that between me and the shore lies a raging sea hundreds of yards wide. Then I came back and threw out my mind to you, and tried to wake you, if you slept; tried to make you understand that I wished you to go to the aerophone and hear me." "I will get help at once," broke in Morris.
"I admit that I am thinking of a little thing," he said with diffidence, as though he were a budding poet with a sonnet on his mind. "A little thing? What little thing?" "Well, a new kind of aerophone designed to work uninfluenced by its twin." "Well, and why shouldn't it? Everything can't have a twin only I suppose there would be nothing to hear."
Then came some sobs and silence. That same afternoon, by Mary's direction, the aerophone was brought back to him in a dog-cart, and three days later he heard that her mother, Mrs. Porson, was dead. Some months passed, and when they met again, on her return from the Riviera, Morris found his cousin changed.
Morris knew well what broke them the fallen ruins of the church that was now Stella's sepulchre, and, oh! in that dark hour, he would have been glad to seek her where she lay. Curiously enough, indirectly, but in fact, it was the circumstance of Stella's sudden and mysterious death that made Morris a rich and famous man, and caused his invention of the aerophone to come into common use.
In addition to all these good things he had suddenly become in his own line one of the most famous persons in the world, so that, wherever civilized man was to be found, there his name was known as "Monk, who invented that marvellous machine, the aerophone." Lastly, there was no more need for him, as for most of us, to stagger down his road beneath a never lessening burden of daily labour.
It is enough to say that in the end he more than carried out his promises under the severest conditions, and in the presence of various scientific bodies and other experts. Afterwards came the natural results; the great aerophone company was floated, in which Morris as vendor received half the shares he would take no cash which shares, by the way, soon stood at five and a quarter.
For a moment there was silence, or at least Stella's voice was silent, while Morris stood over the aerophone, the sweat running from his face, rocking like a drunken man in his agony and waiting for the end.
On two or three occasions when the weather was suitable some further experiments were carried out with the aerophone, but on most days Stella was engaged in preparing the Rectory, a square, red-brick house, dating from the time of George III., to receive them as soon as her father could be moved.
And Morris, who had loved the child, recoiled somewhat from the new-born woman. It may be explained that he was afraid of women. Still, with an eye to business, he spoke to her about the aerophone; and, so far as her memory served her, she confirmed all the details of their short conversation across the gulf of empty space. "You see," he said, trembling with excitement, "I have got it at last."
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