While they waited, Rob Moore joined them, and they explained the quest they were about to start upon.
"Where are you going to take us, Miss Lloyd ?" asked Miles Bradford.
"According to the old legend the four-leaved clover is to be found only in Paradise." "Oh, do you know a legend about it ?" asked Betty, eagerly.

"I've always thought there ought to be one." "Then you must read the little book, Miss Betty, called 'Abdallah, or the Four-leaved Shamrock.' Abdallah was a son of the desert who spent his life in a search for the lucky shamrock.

He had been taught that it was the most beautiful flower of Paradise.

One leaf was red like copper, another white like silver, the third yellow like gold, and the fourth was a glittering diamond.

When Adam and Eve were driven out of the garden, poor Eve reached out and clutched at a blossom to carry away with her.