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HEART
OF FLAMING
GOLD
(© bv D. J. Walsh.l
tIT OVB heals all wounds >” said
I Miss Mary softly.
| The girl opposite her lifted
ha. smooth, dark head swift
ly. "It is love that wounds,” she
countered. "1 was a happy girl until
] looked in the face of love.”
“Don’t tell me you weren’t happy
then?” _
“Happy,” Jean’s hands dropped into
her lap, the roll of gay silks forgot
ten. “Yes, too happy. The radiance
blinded me and 1 lived only from mo
•ment to moment, the world forgotten.
Then,” her brown eyes that always re
minded Miss Mary of dewy brown pan
sies, shone with pain and her pin •
lips quivered, “came a day when I
must choose between love and honor.”
Cool rain spattered on the hot win
dow panes and a robin outside called
for more, apparently not satisfied
with the silver drops that cooled the
dry grasses and refreshed the thirsty
flower petals. Miss Mt.ry glanced at
the absorbed face. “I need not ask
you how you decided. Your eyes are
a guarantee of honor and loyalty.
Sometimes the narrow road of truth
is difficult but, child, it is the only
one for girls like you. It would in.:
you to forsake an ideal.”
“That isn’t what grieves me,” ex
claimed Jean, resuming her needle
resolutely, “it it because the story
told me was builded upon a lie. 1
sent my lover avay, refused to again
see him and —” Jean’s voic. broke in
spite of her pride—“it was all un
necessary. My churn wanted him her
self and she told me a garbled tale
that I believed and 1 felt 1 couldn’t
steal a man’s heart away from my
friend and I promised not to' stand
in her way. Teo late I found that
Rose had lied, that be had loved only
me.”
The invalid watched the downcast
face in silence. “1 do not wish to
pry, my dear, but couldn’t you let
him know now? Don’t let pride stand
in the way. He is not to blame for
the mistake you made and if he truly
loves you he will forgive your lack
cf faith.”
“It wasn’t lack of faith. 1 knew
he loved me, but Kose said he had
loved her first and that if I’d cease
seeing him she would get him back.
Rose is very poor and —he is rich. It
meant, so she said, everything to her
and her mother.”
“Love is never wasted. You will
meet another man who will cherish
you.” 1
•‘No, 1 shall love no one else. It
is.i’t pride that keeps me from telling
him —it is because I have no idea
where he has gone. He was in India
the last I heard of him—his picture
was in the paper with a lion he’d
killed. I’ve written his club, but my
letter was returned. He had left no
address.”
“A rich man would have houses,”
objected Miss Mary. “Men like that
are obliged to leave addresses for
business reasons.”
“He has an estate in Long Island,
but I don’t know exactly where it is.
I imagine that he had only a guest
card to the club in the city and that’s
why he left no forwarding address.”
Jean, visiting some wealthy friends
in the country, had gone to Miss
Mary’s cottage to read to her, as did
many of the neighbors, and she had
asked what she could do to help her.
“If you would only cut my pieces
for me and join the ends so I can
start a new silk rug,” Miss Mary had
I answered, “1 can crochet nicely, but
I I can’t manage the large pieces.”
I Jean’s city friends would have been
I amused at seeing the petted person
I carefully cutting strips of silk fab-
I tics and then sewing them in the
I strips required for crocheting, it had
I seemed a bit bewildering to Jean and
I she had privately marveled at the
I thrift of the very poor. To her those
I bits of silk seemed useless and she
I would gladly have made a money gift
I that would have saved the invalid
■ from the necessity of making the rugs
Ito sell, but she’d been warned not to
Intake any mistake. Miss Mary was a
[gentlewoman and would have been
[poignantly hurt to any suggestion of
[charity. So Jean had 'pricked her
[white fingers and grown warm with
[fatigue as she sewed the flimsy bits
[of silk stockings and ends from dis
[carded gowns.
I “Say, Miss Mary, you haven’t any
■rose color. Don’t you like gay colors
Bin your rugs?” she had demanded,
■touching with almost abhorent fin-
Bgers the drabs and browns.
| Miss Mary’s eyes twinkled youth
■fully. "1 adore them,” she confessed,
■’and, especially, I love gold. I wish
■we had one of those metal hats to
Snake the center.”
I “I have some pieces,” cried the art-
Bui Jean, who had fished for this open
ing. “I’ve an, old evening cloak of
Hold tissue that is lined with rose
Katin, it is in the ragbag, I’m afraid,”
Khe fibbed, “but you won’t mind that.”
I “Mind it?” cried the other raptur-
Kusly, “bring the pieces next time you
Home, will you?”
3 Jean refused a moonlight picnic to
Kot that perfectly good coat cut up
Kito strips, not liking to trust her
Kia id with the work. She was deter-
Kiined that patient Miss Mary should
Kave one rug to her liking.
,[ “Strange that the cloak should have
Kiven out,” commented the invalid
Khen the rosy flood of satin was
Kropped on her reclining chair. “It is
of marvelous quality and does not look
worn.”
“One cannot always tell by appear
ance,” bubbled Jean, her eyes danc
ing gayly us she hunted for a spool of
rose silk to join the ends of that silk
—the garment had had a Jenny label
sewn in it when Jean began her rip
ping. “I have any number of silk
stockings that I’m going to bring down
on my next trip. We’ll have a ducky
rug.”
So the heart of that rug was soft,
yet flaming gold. Jean' had placed
the huge tall in Miss Mary’s ha"ds as
soon as it was rolled: “You begin
to crochet and I'll have the rose ready
in no time. It was nice long strips."
she conduced smiling joyously at her
little secret.
The rose satin was embroidered in
threads of gold and the even rows
that encircled the heart of gold made
a brave showing. •
“Jean, I can’t sell it,” breathed the
invalid when it was finished. “I’d
rather sell my tulip quilt that I’v
always refused to part with. Isn’t
J.is exquisite? It reminds me of radi
ant youth, these glowing colors that
look as though they could never fade.”
Jean had gone back to the city, and
the littl£ path to the cottrtge wat
snow-covered when Miss Mary had a
caller.
“My sister sent me down to set if
1 could persuade you to sell ore of
your quaint quilts. I hear you have
one of the rare hooked rugs—a ship
rug,” he remarked after he had pre
sented his card for introduction.
Miss Mary smiled genially. She
loved to have her treasures appreci
ated. “You a- standing n it. li is
a four-masted schooner under full sail,
done on jail cloth. It is, indeed, a
rare specimen, but I'll sell it. I in
dulged myself by keeping g rug r made
to sell, see,” she indicated the ex
quisite rose and gold rug that made
patch of Jury in the late sunset as
lay across h r knees, “a yo’ung girl
1 love gave me the pieces and she
tired herself out sewing up the strips
for me. Youth doesn't often spend
hours toiling lik< that for au old per
son who is not her kin.”
Politely he wrenched his eyes from
his glorious find and turned his at
tention to the silky rug. “It is in
deed beautiful,” he said at 'ast, a look
of sadness overspreading his fine face,
“tne colors remind me of a great loss
I sustained once —faith ’n the one
girl in the world.”
There was a poignant note of bleak
ness in the rich voice that diverted
the invalid’s attention from the quaint
pattern of her rug and she looked
acros. at him intently: "I hope you
won’t think me inquisitive,” she be
gan slowly, selecting her words with
infinite care, “but I’m going to ask
you to bear with an old woman a mo
ment. I listened to a story lately
that impressed me because of the use
less hurt to two young hearts. Will
you tell me the name of the girl who
abused your faith? A girl who once
wore a cloak of rose and gold?”
He started. His fingers had been
straying over the rosy braided silk.
“A cloak,” he repeated, “she wore a
cloak of that material the last time I
saw her. She told me she loved me
and that very night she telephoned
me saying she claimed a woman’s
privilege of changing her mind.”
“There was a lie between you,”
breathed Miss Mary, "that is her —
her name is Jean.”
He nodded, his blue eyes probing
hers—he'd suffered too long to ac
cept what the gods were promising:
“Out of all the world of girls, it isn’t
possible that you have known my
Jean.”
"Not only do 1 know and love her
but,” gayly she twinkled at him across
hat rug of love, “Jean is visiting
again in the city. She was here at
the Merrills only last week. You must
hurry bacl for she's planning tc go to
Japan shortly.”
When the explanations had been
made and all cleared between the lov
ers, he said, “Jean, if you hadn’t hap
pened to give Miss Mary your old silk
scraps we'd have never found each
other again. Who’d think that a rag
rug could play the part of Cupid?”
“It wasn't an ordinary rag rug,” she
demurred, remembering the extrava
gant whim that had impelled her td
cut into bits the exquisite garment to
please the old lady, “it was a love
rug—rose and gold are the colors of
love.”
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