Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-07-07
The Special Correspondent

! a e boxes, the wind is 90 STRONG 49,.
shelter among the packaoas 10 :
eseu ~ the tarpaulin. Stretched - - s ~
u Vne boxes, wrapped n INV ~, - oue
shau u resung against the tarpauIin7
small soon be asleep. = "a =
aiteF some time am awakened nv !.
Curious noise. Whence comes iris nos ~ 3 :
listen more attentiyely. II saam ms -
enousn some one is snoring close to NV nv
NAT ls some storage passenger. I
mink He has got under the tarno,,;,
pet@een the cases, and he will not a.
~ Dadly Al his improvised cabin +"
by the light which filters down go,
rns lower part Of the pinnacle. | zee
iouling. listen again. The noise has
esaseu' look about. There Is no one
"a unls part Of the deck, for the second
class passengers are all forward
Anen must have been dreaming and
! resume my position, and try again 70
steep. This time there Is no mista 10
ne snoring has begun again. and I am
sure AZ Is coming from the case against
which am leaning my head.
%Ioodness" say. 'There must bo
an animal in hereg'
Now ! am off on the trail. 1t must
be a Wild animal ON its way from some
menagerie to some Sultan of Central
Asia. n'i a.
ngnt wax Vesta, and as am shell
tered from the wind, the fame keeps
upright. By its Light what do / read
Inc case containing the wild beast is
the very one with the address:
Mademoiselle Zinca Klork, Avenue
Cha-COua, Pekin, China.
Fragile, my wild beast! Keen from
damp, my lion. Quite sol But for what
does Miss Zinca KlOrk, this pretty Rou-
manian, want a wild beast sent In this
way?
My thoughts bewilder me. have a
two-pound weight on each eyeld. l lie
down along by the tarpaulin; nv rug
wraps me more closely, andI fall into a
deep sleep. 1t is not yet daylight when
awake.
rub my eyes, l rise, 20 and lean
against the rail. The Astara is not "a
lively, for the wind has shifted to the
northeast.
The night Is cold. l warm myself BY
walking about briskly for half an hour
l think no more Of my wild beast. Sud
denly remembrance returns to me.
look at my watch. 1t is only 8 O'Clock
In the morning. will go back to my
place. And do so with my head against
the side Of the case. l shut my eyes.
Suddenly there Is a new sound, This
time l am not mistaken. A half-stihed
sneeze shakes the side of the case. Never
did an animal sneeze like that!
Is It possible? A human being Is hid.
den In this case and is being fraudulent.
ly carried BY the Grand Transasiatic ia
the pretty Koumanian2 But Is 1t a man
or a woman? 1t seems as though the
sneeze has masculine sound about It.
The eastern horizon grows brighter
The clouds In the zenith are the first to
color. The sun appears at last all wat,
cry with the mists of the sea.
look; 1t is indeed the case addressed
TO Pekin. notice that certain holes are
pierced here and here, by which the all
inside can be renewed. Perhaps two
eyes are looking through these holes
watching what is going on outside.
At breakfast rally all the passengers
whom the sea has not affected; the young
Chinaman, Major Noltitz, Ephrinell
Miss Bluett, Monsieur Caterna, the Bar,
on Observation-Disclosures and seven OIL
eight other passengers. am careful
not to let the American into the secret
of the case.
About noon the land is reported to the
eastward, low, yellowish land, with nc
rocky margin, but a few sand hills in
the neighborhood of Krasnovodsk.
In an hour we are in sight of Uzur
Ada, and twenty-seven minutes after
ward set foot in Asia.