The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-10-24
Clovers Brought
Her Luck
By JANE OSBORN

did you ever feel" said pretty Sally
Hawkins at Mrs. Kline's boarding
house breakfast table one Monday
morning, "just as If something ex-
traordinarily nice were going to hap
penn" She addressed no one in par
ticular. Miss Mapes, school teacher,
smiled an unpleasant smile on one side
of her face.
Mr.. Hodge looked with a grin from
between shovelfuls of breakfast and
said: "There you go. always getting
off some Of that Pollyanna business"
I've often noticed" sighed the indo-
lent widow across from Sally, "that
when had that feeling of exhilaration
something unusually atrocious hap
pened." But Frank Lawrence-DoctOr
Lawrence, as the widow always called
him, or Professor Lawrence, as he was
to Mrs. Kline, who kept the boarding
house-looked up the table at Sally
with rather long and searching glance
so that the widow thought he was
looking for the salt, or sugar, or some
thing.
asked.
'No-no, thank you," stammered
Frank Lawrence, and then to Sally:
Il hope that something as pleasant as
you expect will happen"
So Sally started out toward better
residence section, where she served as
visiting governess in the home Of Mr..
Garfield, one of the towns millionaires.
To cut off a block or so of her walk
she always made a diagonal cut
through a vacant lot few houses from
the boarding house. She was walking
along thinking of nothing in particular
when she let her eyes drop and there
by the path at her feet she spied
four-leaf clover-not one, but many of
them. And then as she stopped to see
the plant from which they sprang she
realized that she had found clump of
clover from which dozens of four-leaf
clovers grew. Sally was no more su-
perstitious than most intelligent per-
sons, but somehow this bunch of four
leaf clovers that crossed her path that
morning when she felt that good luck
WAS imminent fired her imagination.
She could not leave them. She
would not pull them off the plant. If
she left them now to rerurn for them
later some one else might find them
or she herself might not be able to
find the exact locality where they
grew. She looked about in the vacant
lot for something with which to dig
There was a piece of cid tin which
served in Sally's eager hands to dig
the clover plant from the ground.
Sallys next steps were quick ones
back to the boarding house. In dig |
ging up the clovers Sally had cut her |
finger with the tin-not seriously but |
enough so that she had to hold her |
handkerchief closely about it to stay |
the blood. Then as she was hurrying |
through the open field she caught her
frock on bit of brush and made an
awkward tear in the front Of her one
and only suit skirt.
She hurried back with the clover.
She didn't want 1t to die and she
couldn't take 1t to the Garfields
Hurrying to her room she set the plant
In a jardiniere, sprinkled 1t with water,
then changed her suit to the new frock
she hadn't intended to wear for every
day, and bandaged her cut finger.
Hurriedly she again started out for
work gleefully enough. She had found
the lucky clover plant. Something now
surely was going to happen. And some
thing did happen. Mrs. Garfield,
never a pleasant person to work for,
met Sally in the hall with affectedly
arched eyebrows, indicating her amaze
ment at Sally's hardness.
1T was especially imperative for you
10 be here on time this morning." said
Mrs. Garfield. 81 had wished to leave
home early, but could not go leaving
he children with servants-the other
servants"
"But 1 was delayed" protested Sally,
stopping short. She could never admit
o Mrs. Garfield that she had gone to
Ill that trouble to dig up little lucky
dover plant. 81 tore my skirt and cut
nv finger. had to go back to
.hange." Sally was quite sure that
Yrs. Garfield really had no plans to
cave early. She knew she had merely
aiken this occasion as an excuse to ;
ent naturally ill-natured disposition.
$50 under the circumstances" said |
irs. Garfield, "I'm afraid We'll hardly
iced your services. had expected to
i've you weeks notice, but you have l
'roved yourself so Indifferent, Miss
hawkins. that really see no reason 6
Thy I should be more considerable to
on than you have been to me-" r
"But the children" protested Sally.
They expect me. We get along so G
vell. am very fond of them and
'e've started so many things together"
But Mrs. Garfield was obdurate and
We minutes later Sally found herself
laking tracks for her boarding house