The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-09

The only person in the Thorver-
tons house party who wore an ex-
preston which was entirely happy
end unconcerned was Wilmot Ryton,
the celebrated author, who was
reading column and half of yio-
lent abuse of his latest book, 'lThe
New Morality" in a nonconformist
daily paper with very natural de-
light.
Winifred Sturry, in delicious
white frock, suddenly stopped be-
hind his chair. Between her beau
tiful eyebrows there was an anxious
pucker Without word to Ryton
she began to blow a fluffy headed
weed earnestly.
at will, it won't. 1t will, it won't.
If'-
Ryton dropped his paper and
turned his chair around. "It will
or won't what, please?" he asked
curiously.
"H-u-s-shp she whispered. "You
mustn't breathe a word yet or I
shall forget where / am" She blew
again. at will, it won't. 1t wilP--
"It won't" said Ryton tantaliz-
ingly. "I'm certain it won't"
Winifred Sturry deigned to take
no notice. "It won't"-
'It will, Pm certain it will"
She blew the last tiny piece of
fluff away. "It willP she cried, with
horror in her voice. ooh, isn't that
too dreadful for words? What will
poor Mr.. Thorverton say when /
tell him? And l did try so hard to
make it stop at it won'tp" She
flung the weedless stock away with
a gesture. of despair.
"What was the reason Of your
rash expenditure of breath2" he
asked.
For a moment the prettiest girl
in the world regarded him with as
constituent. "You don't mean to
say" she replied by asking another
question, "that you don't know what
today isp"
Strangely enough, 1 do, though.
Today is Tuesday"
"It is st. Swithin's day."
ooh, no! / see" replied Ryton.
att will rain, it won't rain. 1t will
rain, it won't rain"
at will rain," said Winifred sad
", 'tfor forty days."
GLOW do you knowP"
"Why, because it came 80 when
! blew, of course"
"Do you believe that ?" asked Ry-
ton.
"Implicitly," she said briefly.
"And does Jack Thorverton be-
lieve it?"
"Im-movably," she replied curt
ly.
"Whyp" he asked.
"He believes it because he be-
lieves in all those kinds of things"
"You mean he believes that if he
goes under ladder somebody will
die?"
Eyes"
"And if he sees piebald horse
somebody's born~
"Of course"
"And if he sees black cat run.
ming in front of him he'll find the
winner Of the Derbyp And if he
upsets the salt he'll be left at the
post ?"
"Oh, yes, and hundred Other
things"
tMiss Sturry," he said, with ar
earnestness too deadly to be plausi.
BILE, 81 do believe in some of these
things people call superstitions."
Mop she cried.
"Yes. I,believe in blowing fluffy
things"
'You don't?" she said incredu
lously.
"But only when they are blowr
in the right way"
(Which is the right way? Didnt
/ do it in the right way~
NO." said Ryton. "To blow il
once is only to 60 through the frs
stage of the dodge-I mean rite
You ought to blow it three times"
"But one can't blow the sam,
head three times"
"Quite so," replied Ryton gently
"But what you can and ought to d.
Is to blow three heads, once each
For instance, suppose l were in Low,
with you"-
A flush came to Winifred's cheek
and she looked up at Ryton for ,
feeting second from under the turn
ed down brim Of her panama.
II only said suppose" said Ryton
who had caught the glance excited
ly, "and, wanting to find out wheth
er you were in love with me befor,
asked you-although asking /
really not bad way Of finding ou
II blew one Of these things"
he picked three of them from tn
nearest patch and walked back u
his former position, endeavoring t,
hold them steady in. a. hand that in
sisted on trembling.
Winitred, retaining her added col
or, watched him surreptitiously.
Ryton commenced blowing one
ssShe loves me. she loves me not