midnight
His heart was defiled by sin . His lips were unclean with blaspheming God 's name . He remembered all the good resolutions he had made and broken the past quarter of a century . And during these midnight musings he seemed to see two lily-white hands beckoning him to come somewhere ; he knew not where . These hands he readily recognized as the hands of his own baby Rose , who had gone from him one day near the close of her fifth summer . Mentally he found himself again at the bedside of his darling Rose . He saw again her ruddy cheeks glow with fever and heard the tremble of her voice as she said , `` Daddy 's Rose is going to heaven .