Morris tribune., 1905-05-20
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
On St. SWithin' Day

GOuS house parry WIZ Wo10 az "a
preston which was entirely happy
and unconcerned was Wilmot Ryton,
the celebrated author, who was
reading a column and half Of vlo-
lent abuse of his latest book, 1.-The
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
quicker. Without a word to Ryton
she began to blow a fluffy headed
weed earnestly.
ut will, it won't. It will, it won't.
IT,
Ryton dropped his paper and
turned his chair around. cit will
or won't what, please?" he asked
curiously.
'H-u-s-shp' she whispered. 'FYou
mustn't breathe a word yet or I
shall forget where I ann She blew
again. cit will, it won't. It will''-
cit WON'T" said Ryton tantaliz-
ingly. 'I'm certain it won't"
Winifred Sturry deigned to take
no notice. ''It WON'T
ut will. I'm certain it will"
She blew the last tiny piece of
fluff away. FIt willv' 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 [ did try so hard to
make it stop at it won'tD" She
flung the NEEDLESS stock away with
a gesture of despair.
"What was the reason Of your
rash expenditure Of breath?' he
asked
For a moment the prettiest girl
in the world regarded him with as
tonishment. ''You don't mean to
say" she replied by asking another
question, ''that you don't know what
today is ??
STRANGELY enough, I do, though.
Today is Tuesday,"
''It is St. Swithin's day."
ooh, no! l seep' replied Ryton.
" TT will rain, it won't rain. 1t will
rain, it won't rain"
'It will rain,'' said Winifred sad
ly, S'for forty days"
GLOW do you know"
"Why, because it came so when
I blew, of course"
''Do you believe that?" asked Ry-
ton.
'FImplicitly," she said briefly.
'|And does Jack Thorverton be-
lieve it ?"
''Im-movably," she replied curt
ly.
'FWhy?" he asked.
''He believes it, because he be-
lieves in all those kinds of things"
"You mean he believes that if he
goes under a ladder somebody will
die?
eyes"
|FAnd if he sees a piebald horse
somebody's born?''
"Of course
"And if he sees a black cat rum
ming in front of him he'll find the
winner Of the Derby? And if he
upsets the salt he'll be left at the
post ?"
ooh, yes, and hundred other
things"
"Miss Sturry,' he said, with an
sarnestness too deadly to be plausi-
Die, II do believe in some of these
things people call superstitions.''
''NoW she cried.
eyes, I believe in blowing fluffy
;hings."
"You don't?" she said incredu-
ously.
''But only when they are blown
n the right way"
(Which is the right way?> Didn't
do it in the right way?'
NO." said Ryton. ''To blow it
'nce is only to go through the first
tage Of the dodge mean rite.
You ought to blow it three times"
"But one can't blow the same
lead three times"
"Quite So" replied Ryton gently.
But what you can and ought to do
S to blow three heads, once each.
Tor instance, suppose were in love
With you"-
A flush came to Winifred's cheek,
nd she looked up at Ryton for a
Letting second from under the turn
d down brim of her panama.
Il only said suppose . said Ryton,
vho had caught the glance excited
y, ''and, wanting to find out wheth-
r you were in love with me before
asked although asking is
eally not bad Way of finding out