"I'm going to take old Johnny Jutes with me!" Diane kissed her aunt lightly on the forehead.
"Well," said Aunt Agatha in melancholy resignation, "if you must turn gypsy, my dear, and wander about the country, Johnny Jutes is the best one to go along.

He's old and faithful and used to your whims and surely after thirty years of service, he won't break into tantrums." Silver-sweet through the quiet house came the careless ripple of a flute, showering light and sensuous music.

There was a dare-devil lilt and sway to the flippant strains and Aunt Agatha covered her face with her hands.
"Oh, Diane," she whispered, shuddering, "when he plays like that he drinks and drinks and drinks until morning." "Poor Aunt Agatha!" said the girl pityingly.

"What troublesome folk we Westfalls are! And I no less than Carl." "No, no, my dear!" murmured Aunt Agatha.

"It's only when Carl plays like that--that I grow afraid." Aunt Agatha went to bed to listen tremblingly while the dare-devil dance of the flute tripped ghostlike through the corridors.