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Updated: June 22, 2025
By a trick he had bought the music-machine, by a trick he had given the Regent's Hymn to the curious ears at Sherrill's. Very well, there were tricks and tricks! And if one man may trick, so, surely, may another. Passion had always hushed the voice of the imperial conscience, though indeed it awoke and cried in a terrible voice when passion was dead.
"Doubtless," said he, meeting Philip's amused glance with level significance, "doubtless, Poynter, we can " "Yes," said Philip with much satisfaction, "I think we can." They fell to chatting in lower voices as the fire died down. "Meanwhile," shrugged the disgusted Baron a little later, "I shall abandon that accursed music-machine to its fate, and rest.
'It is incredible it can not be! said I, as I blistered about, searching here, searching there, losing my way and thunder-cracking about in dead of night all to pick up the trail of a green and white van and a music-machine! 'It is unbelievable it is a monstrous mistake on the part of Themar! But, Poynter, this love making, in the circumstances, passes all belief!"
I wonder, however, if you would accept my word of honor as a gentleman that I know as little of this treacherous bullet as you; that for all I am bound to secrecy, my sincerest desire is to protect Miss Westfall from the peculiar consequences of this damnable muddle, to clear up the mystery of the bullet, and for more selfish reasons to protect her from the romantic folly of the man with the music-machine!"
Here, as the Indian camp settled into quiet and the fires died lower, as the wild night sounds of the Glades awoke in the marsh outside, Diane lay still and wakeful and a little frightened. Wilderness and Seminole were still primeval. The world seemed very far away. The thought of the music-machine brought with it somehow a feeling of security. With the broad white daylight, courage returned.
By night when the great morass lay in white and sinister tangle under the wild spring moon, when the dark and dreadful swamps were rife with horrible croaks and snaps, the whirring of the wings of waterfowl or the noise of a disturbed puff adder, Philip stretched himself upon the seat of the music-machine and slept through the twilight and the early evening.
He dreamt he was married and it made such a profound impression upon him that he went and married somebody. He slept through his wooing and he slept through his wedding and I gave him the hay and the cart and Dick Whittington. I don't think he entirely appreciated Dick either, for he blinked some. All of which primarily engendered the music-machine inspiration.
For the Seminole chief had fled perversely through the lantern-lit trees, her soft, mocking laughter proclaiming her sex and her mood. "And still he follows!" boomed the Bedouin. "With or without the music-machine, he is consistently fatuous." The man with the luminous turban spoke suddenly to a girl in trailing satin with a muff of flowers in her hand.
He glanced instead at the buzzard which seemed curiously to hang above the long black car. Now presently as he eyed the road ahead for a glimpse of the van, Ronador saw the familiar lines of a music-machine and drove by it with a glance of interest. Instantly the blood rushed violently to his face.
He said in his delightfully naïve way, however, that a music-machine was a thing to arouse romance and sympathy with conspicuous success, that more and more the moon was getting him, and that he did hope Diane would remember that he was the disguised Duke of Connecticut.
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