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Title: The Heart of the Rose

Author: Mabel Anne McKee

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The Heart
of the Rose

By
MABEL A. McKEE

[Device]

NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO
Fleming H. Revell Company
LONDON AND EDINBURGH

New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street

The Heart of the Rose

He was her brother. The thought gave her the same thrill this morning as
it had given her on a morning seventeen years back, when the old family
doctor had laid a tiny bundle in her arms and said, "You'll have to be
his sister and mother both, Elizabeth."

Her twelve years then hung heavily on her; her little face, stained
with the marks of recent tears, took on a warmer glow as she touched the
baby's hand. She had unfolded the baby blanket and slipped on his first
little clothes. And as she dressed him, she felt a sense of loss; with
every fresh garment he seemed to become less of an angel and more of a
human being. The same feeling of loss was now in her heart as she folded
his great Indian blankets, slipped his photographs into the case and
filled the nooks and crevices of his trunk with "little surprises" to
drive away the first bitter longings for home. She lifted a thick white
wool sweater; it brought the memory of a little soft flannel shirt. She
buried her face in its folds and murmured in a tearful voice, "Why, he
is my man brother and I am sending him from home to college."

* * * * *

His foot sounded on the stairway; his clear boyish voice called, "Beth,
where are you?"

Before she could answer he entered the room. Throwing several bundles
onto the bed, he gave a sigh of relief. He tugged impatiently at the
strings as he explained: "These are some things the girls made me. It's
great to be going away, isn't it? Why, I feel just like I was getting
out of a cage; I feel like I was going to fly. Say, what is this,
anyway?"

He held up a small book, shaped to resemble the bud of a flower. It was
made of white water-colour paper and every leaf was fastened to the
other leaves by small white cords. On the front was the picture of a
baby; on the back was a pair of black kid doll shoes.

"Where did you get it?" his sister asked.

"Rose gave it to me; she told me a long time ago that she was making me
a book of memories; that I was to open just one page a week. That's my
baby picture, all right, but why on earth has she put those doll
slippers on the back? And why is it shaped in this funny way? What
makes girls such queer creatures, anyway, Beth?"

She laughed. "I guess, Floyd, if this is a book of memories, that last
page is to picture the last great event of your life--your graduation
night. Don't you remember how your new patent leathers pinched your
feet, so that you limped across the platform after your diploma? It is
shaped like a rosebud, for it is like that. Every week you will open a
new petal, and finally, when you have opened them all, it will be a
full-blown rose. When you come back Rose will have unfolded a few
petals, too."

"Well, I am going to unfold every one of these right now. I never could
wait that long to see what is in the centre. Of course I have a vague
idea, but I want to be sure. So in two minutes we will know this
mystery."

"No," she said firmly, taking the book from his hand. "What would the
book mean to you then, Floyd? Every particle of the pleasure--the
expectation--would be gone. It took Rose a long time to make this book
and you surely would not destroy its value in a few minutes. She even
formed every leaf like a petal, so that it would give you the pleasure
of watching it unfold like a real rose. It is just a symbol of
herself--a little bud of promise."

"She's great to think of all that; I like her. Oh, she and Dorothy are
going to stop a minute to-night; Dot has something for me and I want
them to see some of my things. But I do want to open this book. I guess
I will give it to you to keep until I am ready to shut this trunk, so it
won't be such a temptation. But let's eat pretty soon; I am simply
starved."

At the supper table he talked incessantly of his departure. One moment
he wished that she could go along; the next he exulted over the idea of
being in a house with a crowd of fellows. While he talked a boy came to
the door and was dragged in by a ruthless hand. While they ate
quantities of hot waffles they talked of the "fellows and girls." For
the most part they talked of the girls. The sister heard new phrases--a
new language; he had always used a different one to her. They spoke of
girls as "four-flushers," as "easies," as "stiffs" and "stand-patters."
Occasionally Floyd stopped in the centre of a remark and nodded his head
warningly towards his sister, but the talkative John rambled on,
speaking in a free and easy way of the girls he had grown up with.

During the last year Floyd had ceased to talk to his sister about his
girl friends, and they seldom came to his home. In her presence his
comrades talked continually of school; but if she was busy near she
could hear them laughing and chatting in tones different from the ones
they used when she was there. She had tried in every way she could to
attract them to her home, for formerly they had come in great crowds.
But Floyd did not seem to want them; he preferred going to their homes.
At times she wondered if she had been in their way when they had come.

When the two girls came she greeted them warmly; they had belonged to
the crowd which had come in the past often for cookies and for help in
long, knotty problems. Then, thinking they might not remain if she was
present, she went into the next room. Through the open door she watched
them. She could not help watching; she had been deprived of all her
girlhood and now she wanted to enjoy theirs.

Dorothy, a dimpled, laughing girl with great, brown eyes and masses of
curls which were always rumpled, threw her hat into a chair and was soon
seated between the two boys, showing them the posters she had made for
Floyd. The sister saw Floyd move very close to the girl and lay his hand
on her shoulder with a caressing movement; she caught the glance that
he gave--a glance full of bold admiration and meaning. Rose stood near
the table, watching the other girl. In her eyes was a look of longing,
and yet it was mingled with fear. The three on the sofa soon drew her
into their circle, John was open in his admiration of both girls; he
tried to distribute his caresses with an impartial hand, but the little
Rose drew away with that expression of dread in her eyes. Floyd was not
so bold; he lightly laid his hand on her hand, and when she did not
resent it clasped it more firmly. Her face flushed, but she suffered the
hand to remain.

Elizabeth was called from the room by some visitors. When they had
finally gone she came back to her former seat. She saw a new brother, a
different one from the one she knew. He was talking in a boisterous
tone.

"When are you going to kiss me good-bye, Dot?" he asked.

"Right at the station," she answered laughingly.

"Honour bright?" He asked.

"Honour bright," she promised.

"You are all right," he exclaimed. "Rose is too bashful for that." Then
he hinted, "But you see I am going to take her home to-night."

Rose coloured as he gave her a significant look. She pushed his hand
from her arm and walked to the piano. But there was a wavering, an
uncertainty in her face. He had been her comrade so long and she really
liked him.

The watching sister made a quick decision. When the girls rose to go,
she stood up saying, "Floyd, I want you and John to watch the house. I
have to see Rose's mother to-night; to-morrow you can see the girls
again."

There came a flush of annoyance on the boyish face, followed by one of
anger. He knew his sister had been listening. But he was still too loyal
to criticize her to John, who, when they were alone, openly denounced
her for her meddling.

* * * * *

When she returned Floyd was alone. He sat sulky and silent. She busied
herself with the household cares for a few minutes. Soon she went over
to the lounge and sat down beside him. She put her arm around him and
kissed his forehead. "Let's don't be angry on our last night," she
begged.

"Why did you do it?" he asked. "I know you heard what I said to Rose,
but what is she to you?"

"A great deal," she responded, "but not so much as the boy I love so
dearly--the boy I have been a mother to, and yet I haven't been a true
mother, for I never have talked to you of these things because they were
hard. You see I have failed in my duty."

Instantly he was all tenderness. He drew her down into his boyish long
arms and laid his head against hers. "You have not failed in anything,
you darling!" he cried. "But it wouldn't hurt me. I'm a man. All the
fellows do that way."

"How do you know?"

"They tell about it. We don't all talk about it in a crowd, but just
when we are together, like John and me."

"Does John treat Rose that way?"

The boy grew warm in a minute. "He'd better not; he went too far to suit
me to-night."

"Why did he?" she asked quietly. "You were rather free towards
Dorothy."

"Dorothy is different; she's a--she's--well, she's a jolly good fellow,
but Rose--well, I like Rose, and every fellow better keep his hands off
her. I don't want a girl all the fellows can love; but I'm different.
Those things don't hurt a fellow; he's coarser and--well, it's expected
of him."

"But they do hurt you," she said. "The little book of memories that Rose
gave you this afternoon told a story of its own. I am going to tell you
this story."

He looked away into the distance, and she began.

* * * * *

"Once there was a man who went into a garden. All around him were
beautiful roses of all colours. But he chose a little white bud for his.
He chose it because it was pure and white, but most of all because it
was closed. No other person could see into its heart. While he was
waiting for it to unfold he walked around to enjoy the other flowers. He
studied their colouring and he breathed their perfume. For a long time
he enjoyed this; then he wanted to get nearer to these roses, to handle
them. Other travellers were handling them and they seemed to enjoy
themselves more than he did. So he touched one rather timidly; others he
was not so careful with. At last he grew tired and wandered back to his
own rosebud and lo! it had opened. It stood the whitest and most
fragrant rose in the garden, and its heart was the dewiest and most
tender. But he remembered the crimson roses and it seemed too white.
Then he could not detect its fragrance, for he had killed his sense of
smell by its abuse with the other roses, some of which stood as high and
beautiful as before, but others were left bruised and broken by his
ruthless desire to please, yes, to indulge himself. As he plucked his
own rose, he was aware of no sense of joy over it, except from pride,
for many travellers cast him envious glances. But he could not see its
unusual beauty; he could not get the fragrance from its heart, because
his sense of sight had been dulled by the brilliancy of the other
flowers and his sense of smell by their odour.

"Nor did he think of the little buds in the garden that he had touched
and then left. They would perhaps open, but the petals he had touched
would always be brown and torn. The passers-by might not see them when
the flowers had opened and revealed their hearts, but the men who had
plucked them would--not at once, but when they had become less entranced
and were seeking for defects. Then perhaps they would throw the roses
away. But the man who had the perfect rose--the one which was perfect
because it had been well protected--did not know of the havoc he had
wrought. He was too much interested in wondering why he did not enjoy
his rose, why it seemed so commonplace and really tiresome. He did not
know that it was he who had become unable to appreciate it, through his
own indulgence begun in an idle moment, while he had waited for his
flower to blossom."

* * * * *

She paused to look into his face. He was listening. Then she went on:

"You say you are a man; you have only thought of one side; you have only
wanted the perfect rose. You may get one, but if you do it will be one
which has been carefully guarded. You are not intending to break or
bruise the other roses; you are just going to handle them because the
other boys do. You will enjoy their fragrance, but you will leave
wounded petals. Then after a time, if you travel far enough into the
garden, you will grow indifferent to the havoc you are doing and will
carelessly crush the flowers. You may grow so cruel that you will enjoy
it. There are men who do, and they started out as free from intention to
harm as you were to-night. You caressed Dorothy; John caressed her. The
next boy who comes along will find it easier to be free with her, and
unless there is some one who cares enough to guard her she will be torn
from the stem before she has blossomed. If you had kissed Rose to-night
it would have been easy for you to kiss her again. You haven't yet, have
you?"

He shook his head.

"I am so glad," she continued. "It will be so much better for her. If
she permits you these familiarities she will permit others the same
ones. She may soon become as reckless as Dorothy, and then we dare not
think of the future. You can see now what a wonderful flower she
promises to make. She is a perfect little bud. Would you not hate to
think that you were spoiling the promise of that bud?"

"Forgive me for being so cross," he begged.

"Yes, dear," and she kissed his lips. "But we are going to look at your
side now. God made you so that you have certain desires, certain
cravings, that you are to control. Many men will say that they are only
to be satisfied, but we know better. The first kiss you give to a girl
thrills you--really it is one of the greatest minutes of your life. The
next girl you kiss seems less of a pleasure. Then after a while it
becomes a mere habit; it loses all sense of enjoyment--the holiness has
long since been done away with. Stronger desires than kissing arise and
soon you are not the man God intended you to be. You will have a low
idea of women. Even your wife, if you get the sweetest and purest in the
world, will not seem so to you. Marriage will not be a sacred
fulfillment; it will be a commonplace event."

His arms had tightened around her, but he was silent.

"And," she continued, "your future career as a man will be touched. You
cannot think clearly or act quickly when any of the senses of your body
have been impaired. Lust kills ambition, ability and power. I do not
mean that every boy who starts in this way has the same fatal ending,
but a great many do. There is the half-way place where many men stop;
yet you will find they are not real men. It will be so much holier and
better to stay at the beginning."

She sat silent, waiting for him to speak. At last he did. "Of course,
Beth, I wouldn't want to go even half-way, now; I wouldn't even want to
touch"--and a tender smile played around his lips--"any roses but one.
But I cannot see yet why I can't let her know that I care for her; I
will be constant. I want to like her and I want her to like me."

She drew a sharp breath. "You mean you will crush the petals of your own
rose, and then enjoy the heart when it is opened. When you come back you
may not even want to see that heart; you are just a boy. If you do,
there will be times when you will see those crushed petals and be
sorry. You may blame yourself, but you will probably blame Rose. You may
grow so discontented that you will blame another man. If you know she
allowed you these caresses, these little familiarities, you will think
she would allow others."

He spoke with pride. "I know Rose."

"We will look at it from her side. After she realizes those petals have
been crushed by you she may be afraid of the future. She may be afraid
that you have wandered far into the garden and come back to her a
worn-out traveller. She may be afraid that you will not appreciate her
and that you will not deal rightly with her."

He laughed. "I am not afraid of that."

"Other girls just as constant in their friendship as Rose have felt that
way," she said in a low voice.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"My dear boy, I have a few wilted petals and I know how they feel. You
see, I was like you are. There was no one to guard me and I did just
what any girl will do who does not think. But I realized in time to save
myself from only a few brown ones, and I want to save every girl I can.
We were young and thought we knew our hearts. My, how they changed! But
they couldn't change those bruised petals."

He gave a hurt cry, but he saw a face free from suffering. It held only
love for him.

"Floyd, I want to give the world a noble man. That is the dearest wish
of every woman. I want to give some woman a pure husband; and oh, my
darling boy, I want to give you life in its best and purest forms. I put
the first little garment on your little body; I changed you from a
little angel to a human being, and I must care for that human being."

"You angel!" he murmured.

She lifted his chin and looked into his clear eyes.

"I promise," he said in a low tone.

"It will not be easy, dear. You will have to refuse to listen to other
boys, you will have to read only good books and you will have to think
pure thoughts. Rose's little book will help you. You can see the baby
that I am trying to keep pure and help me do it; you can see those doll
shoes and remember how you suffered on the night you wanted to be happy,
because you wanted to do as 'the fellows' did. You were so anxious to
know what was in the heart of the rose book. I do not know, but she did
tell me this. On the second petal--and you must look at it every day--is
the little picture of Sir Galahad which your first teacher gave you. Do
you remember it?"

The boy smiled dreamily as he quoted--

"My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure."

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