The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-11-06
THE CL0VER.BAG.
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.

on it for luck. Besides, l had only
green and white paint left. Uncle Ben
Jamin Is so stin-I mean econ omicsl-
that l darsen't ask him for new box OF
co!ors. should have liked to make you
handsomer present, but you will have
to take the will for the deed, Jasper"
cit is very pretty, indeed, aud shall
never look ut it without thinking OF
you" said Jasper. "I'll hang it ur
where eau see it as soon as / open nv
eyes. What shall keep in it,"
''Well, it will hold photographs, )"
said Deity.
'And l have n hundred" said Jasper.
"Flve of you, mother and father, all nv
brothers and sisters, Aunt and Uncle
Brown, Aunt and Uucle Jones, the mem
bers of the choir at Allentown, lots oI
| girls"
"Of girls9" repeated Dotty, solemnly.
"They always give their photographs
to me. l don't know why," said Jasper.
81 never ask for them"
"lou begged for mine" said Dotty.
"Oh, you are different" cried JASPER.
81 needed yours. The only one but
yours l ever
"Ob, you confess, eh2" cried Dotty.
81 didn't ask for that. 1 only said
thought it pretty" said Jasper.
1t was plain from the sudden fading of
Dotty's smile that he had not bettered
matters, and he stopped.
"But whose was it9' asked Dotty.
"Oh, it was only Jennie Graham, :" said
Jasper. cit was the way it was finished
off--thc toning and touching up,
meant, that was pretty. 1t was iuc,
don't you see, as photograph, aud I
was doing a good deal in the amateur
way just then, and was interested in
methods. 1t was not as Jennie Ora
hams portrait that cared for it,"
Dotty was occupied in pulling out the
bows of ribbon that adorned the bag,
and said nothing. She had never seen
Jennie Graham, but she had heard her
spoken of as beautiful and she did not
quite believe Jaspar.
In later years a woman comes to know
that it is not always the girl he thinks
the handsomest that man loves best
but she cannot believe that while she
is still very young.
Dotty was aware that she was only nice
looking. and she could not see herself
as others saw her, especially Jasper
Meredith, and know just how nice
Jasper had been payin T attention
fer long while, but as ycv they were
not actually engaged.
After Jasper had gone away with his
bir hday present, and she had betaken
herself to her own room, she felt little
piqued to think that Jasper had told her
about those photographs of other girls
that he should keep in her presence.
Particularly she hated to think of
Jennie Graham's portrait lying in that
bag of heliotrone silk, on which she had
painted four-leaved clover. which she
had stitched with the tiniest stitches,
and shirred SO carefully and lined so
dairtily with pale green silk, quilted in
diamonds and pcriumed with heliotrope
sachet powder.
She did not dream of making bower
for Jennie Graham's picture beauty. If
Jasper had said, ~ will keep it for your
photoSraphs-yours alone" that would
have been a pretty speech.
Suddenly she remembered that she also
cousins, the lihenesses of two young men
who were engaged to her dearest school
friends, who had sent them to her that
she might see what charming persons
they were to marry.
Then there was the photograph she
had bought in stationcr's store when
she was only fourteen years old, aud was
visiting an aunt in New York-the pho.
tograph of Il young actor, who had played
part she fancied at matinee perform
ancc.
OH, she had ten! Some were in her
bureau; some in her trunk; her cousins
i'll the album; the fascinating actor on
top shelf, with some old stcreoscopic pic.
lures she had tired of long ago.
She would huut them all uD and sho "
them 10 Jaspsr the very next time he
came, and give him pang of jealousy.
He deserved it for even dreaming of
keeping Jennie Graham's photograph in
the bag that was her love. gift.
Dotty did not sleep for some time after
coming to this resolution, and she cried
little and said to herself that nothing
in life was quite satisfactory.
''"Ch ieso'utionS are often swept away !.
but Dotty Tone awokc to find hers quite
as firm by daylight as it was when the
moon shone in at her bedroom window.
After breakfast she hunted up pretty
japanese box that Jasper had given her
for her note: paper, and collected her por.
traits. Bluff Cousin Hal and jolly Cousin
Philip, Ann Moreland's fnancee and
Martha Green's "darling Tom," gentle
Mr.. MIldmar, the minister, who had a
wife and five children. His wife had
given her this picture to show her how
he looked rs college boy.
The young actor, Vivian st. Claire,
what great eyes he was making, to-be.
sure! Exactly as he did when he said,
"Wc must part now, but we shall meet
again, when he babe farewell to the
lovely maiden of the play she saw him
in.
The others were nobody in particular
except Simon Todd, who used 10 be a
drug clerk in tie town, aud who had
offered himself and been declined with
thanks.
These, all arranged carefully in a box,
were placed in the front parlor, and when