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Abdallah is the son of a Bedouin woman, widowed before his birth. Hadji Mansour, a wealthy and avaricious merchant of the neighboring town of Djiddah, confides to her care his new-born son Omar; and fearing lest the evil eye shall single out his child, he charges her to lay the boys in the same cradle and bring them up as brothers. An astrologer is summoned to the house. He grants Mansour's three wishes: that Omar shall be healthy and wealthy, and love no one but himself. On Abdallah he lays a charge to seek the four-leaved clover. Omar is reclaimed at fifteen by his father, and immediately begins a career of selfish and heartless greed. To Abdallah a wise Jew explains that the four-leaved clover was a mystic flower, which Eve had hastily snatched on her expulsion from Paradise. One leaf was of copper, one of silver, the third of gold, and the fourth a diamond. Eve's hand trembled as the fiery sword touched her, and the diamond leaf fell within the gates of Paradise, while the other three leaves, swept away by the wind, were scattered over the earth. The deeds by which Abdallah seeks to win the successive leaves-and especially the crisis of his fate when revenge against Omar, who has irreparably injured him, is weighed against the diamond leaf-form the material of the story.

SIZE: 6 ½ x 9 (approximately) PAGES: Unnumbered pages. Still a real good copy for its age. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: DRAWINGS By HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY. DECORATIONS By MARGARET ARMSTRONG. First Edition. THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, IN 1904. Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers - Brooklyn, NY. Beautifully done book from cover to cover.