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IMORNING STAR
Chapter 4
BREAKFAST
TAVID woks Just ii dawn was
alttlng Into his room. He made
it Yallant effort to go back to sleep,
knowing that the household would
sot atlr tor at least an hour, but the
Sort was unsuccessful
He telt much as be had telt as a
child on Christmas mornings, when
tie had lain and tried to decide
whether to rise In the cold darkness
to a solitary discovery ot his
presents, or to wait until Judith
labould wake and share bis delight.
! At last he gave up the attempt,
and slipping on a heavy dressing
gown be went to sit on the window-
all! and watch the sunrise.
Frost lay like a lace veil over the
grass and shrubs, and the rising sun
tinted distant fields with a taint
pink glow. For the first time In his
lite David wanted to kneel at the
window and pray, not to any God
above blm, but to the earth below.
He turned away and dressed
Quickly In riding clothes, then stole
quietly down the stairs and out Into
the cold, still air.
j He went straight to the stables
and saddled Aubrey's big gelding,
his lingers performing skillfully and
automatically an almost forgotten
task.
Tho gelding eyed blm suspicious
ly, and blew varm clouds of mist
Into the crisp air. He was unaccus
tomed to working before breakfast,
and be felt, moreover, that be should
resent the attentions ot this
stranger.
But, like David, he sensed In the
stranger a kindred spirit.
He danced restlessly as David
iwung Into the saddle, and David
leaned over to pat his shining flank.
"1 feel the lame way myself,
fella," David chuckled. "Let's go!"
: Head out, his powerful body ex
tended, the big horse raced from tbe
dusky stable Into the advancing
morning. David guided him Into a
narrow roadway that led across bare
fields and through a thicket of pines,
then Into cleared spaces once more.
' Mist lay heavy above a stream
that wavered across the fields, and
the delicate pink light ot sunrise
was merging rapidly Into the pale
gold of early morning.
Having worked off his superfluous
i energy, the big horse slowed sudden
ly to a walk, and David's mood shitt
ed with equal rapidity from exhilara
tion to reverie.
His mind went back to tbe events
of tbe evening before: to Judith and
Aubrey, and the feeling of peace and
familiarity that had enveloped blm
from the moment of bis arrival at
Morton Hall. i
He came finally and almost reluc
tantly to the memory ot Emily, de
scending the broad stairway and
walking straight into his life again.
A very different Emily from the child
he bad known before: a poised, ma
ture woman, lovelier even than he
had remembered her.
Not tbe sort ot Woman, certainly,
that he could ask to share a life
time, perhaps, of poverty and strug
gle. He had accustomed himself dur
ing the past weeks to tbe Idea of lite
alone at Carrollton for aeveral
years at least and Emily's reap
pearance had deprived the Idea of
Its charm.
Judith had meant well, bless her.
but Judith should have known that
It was Impossible
A 8 for Carrollton Itself: tor some
reason that he couldn't quite de
fine be was waiting postponing his
visits ot rediscovery. It was 'in ter
rible repair, Judith bad warned him,
and Carrollton In disrepair didn't
bear thinking about.
Ha wanted a tew days to fortify
himself: after that he would go and
see for himself.
He turned bis mount towards
home, and the horae, mindful ot his
deferred breakfast, began once more
to run. At the stable David flung
himself from the saddle and handed
the reins to a grinning black boy.
"Give him a good rub-down, son.
and no breakfast tor halt an hour."
. The boy bobbed like an automa
ton. "Yassuh, Mist' David."
Tbe household had awakened dur
ing his absence, and was alive with
sounds of activity: the purr ot a
vacuum cleaner, tbe tinkle of silver
and glass as Dorlnda set the table,
the faint, distant crooning of Louella
as sbe prepared breakfast.
He went upstairs and changed
clothes, whistling softly as be went.
On tbe way down again he
stopped, aa he bad stopped so many
times before, to bang loudly on Ju
dith's door.
"This Is a devil ot a way to treat a
prodigal! I've been np tor two
hours."
Judith's voice, heavy with, sleep,
filtered through the door. "Of all
LIFE TERM FACED
BY LOVE SLAYER
CHICAGO, Oct. 19. (API Mande
rllle W. Zenge. convicted ot the
tmasculatlon slaying of the man who
married hie school-day sweethert, pre
served his characteristic Inscrutabtl
Ity today as he faced the prospect of
life Imprisonment.
A fslnfc amlie played over Zengea
face when he heard a criminal court
lury'e verdict of guilty with a rec
ommendation of a life sentence last
eight. Court attaches said he waa
ven less emotional than at any other
time during the trial.
Joseph Oreen. counsel for Zenge,
announced the verdict would be ap
pealed. Judge Cornellua J. Hnrrlng
ton est October 3S for hearing on a1
MV'trltJ,
by MAsjah Sims
the disgusting energy I'l be down
In a few minutes to have breakfast
with you." . '
"It'll have to be a very few
minutes," he warned her, "or there
won't be any breakfast to have."
He turned away, glanced at
Emily's door and realized auddenly
that he was Incapable, now, ot re
suming the easy familiarity of the
past. He passed softly by and went
downstairs.
But Emily was already down, read
ing a book before the library Are.
He stopped short at the door.
"Another early bird! I've been
priding myself that I was the only
person on the lot who bad any en
ergy." She laid aside the book and smiled
at blm, and David's heart began to
misbehave.
"It's In the climate. I can't resist
getting up for tear I'll miss some
thing. Jude's given me up as hope
less." He dropped Into a chair facing
her. "Do you feel that way about It
too?"
"So much 'that way that I resent
every minute I spend in bed."
Their eyes clung together, and
David, watching her, aaw that a deep
flush had mounted awlftly from her
throat to her hair. He looked quick
ly away, trying valiantly to think
of some casual remark that would
shatter the Intimacy of the mo
ment It was Emily herself who found It,
"Didn't I hear you stealing In
from an early morning ride?"
He nodded. "I waa aa bad as a kid
on Christmas morning. 1 lay and
looked at the celling tor a tew min
utes and then gave up the struggle.
Tbey don't have mornings like this
anywhere else In the world."
Sbe laughed. "Don't I know! I
broke all precedents by having
breakfast with Aubrey and then rid
ing with blm the first day I was
here. Judith thought I'd gone crazy."
He said slowly, "Would you
ride with me some day before break
fost?" The flush returned. He remem
bered, unwillingly, the first letter
be had written her: "To think ot
finding a girl who can blush! Ood
knows I don't deserve It" She said
quietly:
"I'd love It"
GUS appeared at the doorway.
"Breaktus' la served."
David stood up, relieved. "Let's
go ahead. Jude's coming eventually,
but I'm too weak to wait."
Actually he wanted the experi
ence of breakfast alone with her:
It would be something to take to
Carrollton
Aubrey would be late, Gua was
explaining as they eat down; some
thing about a calf that wasn't well,
He bad thought they might bs
"hongry."
"We are," David assured him.
"You did exactly right"
Judltb came In before they had
finished the trull She waa about
to say, "What a charming picture!"
but checked herself abruptly. This
was tbe sort ot thing you couldn't
push instead she complained to
David:
"I hardly stoppud to wash my
face tor ftr you'd eat the napkins.
You'rs wotse than a plague of In
custs .;
He grinned as he rose to seat her.
'Sweet Kate! t feel as If I'd never
been away."
"That's why I'm rude," Judith ex
plained. "I want you to feel at home.
May I have some of those grapes, or
are you using them all?"
"1 to Ink," Judith announced,
'that tbls would be a swell time to
bave a dance. I haven't had a real
early for Emily since she's oeen
here and certainly we ought to have
an official welcome tor David."
Emily protested laughing. "My
whole visit has been a party. Let
David have the undivided honors."
David shook his head. "Not with
you here."
Emily couldn't trust herself to
speak She waa remembering all too
vividly the dance at Carrollton so
long ego: remembering David In
the gAiuen with his bands on her
shoulders: "Mini being a farmer's
wife, Emily?" She had told blm then
that she would be a ditch-digger's
wife If be were tbe ditch-digger,
and four months later he was In
Cblna. Sbe stole a glance at him
and knew from the sight ot his set
face that David was remembering
It too.
Judith looked sharply at David and
realized that he waa afraid, David,
who had never known the meaning
of the word! The discovery decided
her.
Wo won't have It until Saturdoy
night. I'm going to start calling peo
pie tonight."
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Tomorrow, tmMy
i eertaln threshold.
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SEEKS
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PORTLAND. Ore . Oct. IP. (API-
Portland planned today to ask the
special aesslon o( the legislature for
authorlratlon for the port commission
to tap Its funds for a new airport site
here.
The elty charter confines the port
commission to acthlea to water-born
commerce, but It waa planned to ask
the legislature to authorize the com
mission to go into the airport bust
nesa. Action by the legislature would be
more speedy and (ar more economical
than a special charter election. It
waa pointed out Speed m aeiectlon
of a alto Is necessary if federal funds
are to me obtained tor an expanded
airport her. .
MEDFORD MAIL
SAFE FROM PERIL
WORCESTER, Eng., Oct. 19. (AP)
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin de
clared today that no nation la secure
from war and "even America U up
against that peril."
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the doctrine of Charles A. Darwin,
famous naturalist who wrote tin
theories Into his "Origin of the
8pecles," evolution's classic' Natural
selection, be held,- accounted 1 for
present speclee of animals the evo
lutionary process builds up through
generation after generation with the
best fitted of each generation sur
viving to procreate Its kind.
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five may be stronger, the other five
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TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD,
The premier linked his warning
with what some ot His hearer Inter
preted as a direct bid to the United
States to join the League of Nations
to Insure the peace of the world. .
He declared be would not accept
the failure of peace efforts as mark
ing the end of the league.
"I would say rather," he said, "that
If this first attempt by the world to
secure peace falls let us see whether
our machinery or whether our work
may have been at fault; let us try
again and let us see once more
whether we cannot get those still
outside the league to Join the league."
In a speech to his political con
stituents, he warned the world would
find a vast difference If war broke
weaker than tbelr parents. The
strong are likely to survive, the
weak likely to die thus In the next
generation that strain will , be
stronger, better fitted to live In Its
environment. The weaklings of any
apeclea. the unfit, and the poorly
adapted members have leas chance
to survive the battle for life, less
chance to grow to maturity, .and
consequently leas chance to pro
duce a new generation of unfit
weaklings. That was, In general, the
doctrine of Darwin's natural selec
OREGON", SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1935
out today from the conditions pre
vailing In the world war.
"Not on country to4ay If war
broke out," he declared, "could re
gard Itself as secure until that war
ended.- Even America, which has
talked of Isolation, Is up against that
peril." . , . .
- THE DALLES, Ore. Oct. 19. (AP)
Stimulation In retail sales through
Wasco county was reported today af
ter W. Wray Lawrence, county agent,
had finished - delivering e 150,908 in
allotment check to wheat growers.
. The last of the checks were deliv
ered to ranchers of the southern part
ox the county at Antelope,
pse Mail Tribune want ads.
tion a theory that still occasions
Its share of debate.
Strange as It seems, Charlea Dar
win must have wondered about him
self when he formulated hla famous
theory. Healthy Jn appearance, he
did not enjoy good health. Nausea.
Indigestion end general poor health
plagued him most of his lire the
work that he enjoyed so well was
limited because he could not stand
exertion. Yet Darwin lived to be 73
years old well beyond the average
span of life.
COFFEE, TEA, OR MILK?
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ANCTUER WAITRESS AND ASKS HER. HIS LUKCHEON WILL 6Ef
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