The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1905-07-01

srayisA brown. with mobile face. lively
look. easy walk with a certain swinging
o. the hips. The woman still a pretty
blonde. blue eyes, q rather fresh com
plexion, her hair frlzzed under a cane.
travelling costume which Il Ia good
taste neither In It's Unfashionabls cut nor
IN It's glaring color. Evidently q mar
raed couple come In the train from T1fiis,
and unless ! am mistaken they are
/ French.
They are too much occupied to see me.
In their hands, on their shoulders. they
nave bags and cushions and wraps aud
sucks aud sunshades and umbrellas. They
are carrying every kind Of little package
You can think OF which they do not care
20 put with the luggage on the steamer |
l have good mind TO so and help them. |
Just as am walking up to them. Ephri- /
nell appears. drags me away. and leave /
the couple behind.
Well" said l to the Yankee, chow |
are you getting ON with your eargOY'
Az this moment, sir. the thirty-sev-
enth case il ON the road"
And what may be in those cases. II
you please7''
In those cases8 All There l. the
thirty-seventh,' he exclaimed. aud he
ran out to meet 8 truck which had Just
come on 90 the quay.
Inc Astara Is loaded up. The hold Is
not DIG enough, and a good deal Of the
cargo Il oveFlowed on the deck. The
stern Is reserved for passengers, but from
the bridge forward 10 the top-gnllant
foFecastle there is a heap Of cases eev-
cred with tarpaulins TO protect them
from the sea.
There Ephrineli's cases have been put.
He has lent hand with Yankee energy,
determined not TO lose sight Of his valua-
bic property, which Is "a cubical eases.
about two feet on the side, covered With d
patent leather. carefully strapped, on
which can be read the stenciled words,
Strong, Bulbul & Co. New York" {
Are all your goods on boardP'
asked the American.
There Ii the forty-secOnd case Just \
coming" be replied
And there was the said case on the
back OF porter already coming along
the gangway. II seemed 30 me that the 4
porter was rather lottery.
wait bitF' shouted Ephrinell Then
q good Russian. 80 as TO BE- better an-
ierstOod, he shouted; Look out! Look
out!'
II Is good advice. but Il Is too late.
The porter has just made a false step
The case slips from his shoulders, breaks
n two, and a quantity OF little packets !
y paper scatter their contents on the 4
isck
What a shout OF indignation ala Ephri. q
leH raise! What a whack with his ast Il
I'D be administer % the unfortunate d
'orter a. be repeated In a voice OF de- OF
pair. My teeth my poor teeth p
And be went down on his knees 20 OF
'ather up his little bits OF artificial ivory b.
hat were scattered all about, while I IL
ould hardly keep from laughing.
Il was for manufacturing ave thou eli
and cases week for the ave parts OF er
be world that this huge concern existed! In
was for supplying the dentists OF the ~
ID and new worlds; Il was for sending W
seth IS far as China. that their factory o.
squired dfoesn hundred horse power, b.
nd burned q hundred tons OF coal a
az! That Is quite American b.
The bell Is ringing for the last dina FL
II the passengers are aboard. The As bu
ira u casting oR her waFps suddsnly sh
Aers are shouts from the quay. I rec
snizs them - being In German. the ~
ims as l bad heard az Tihis when the
ain was starting fog Baku. he
II 70 the same man He ls painting. he
ms. be cannot run much faster. tn. m,
anyway has been drawn ashore. ana
y steamer is already moving Oh. Luck. N,
: there IL rope out astern which still
sepa the Astara near the quay. TNhe -.
erman appears Just AZ two sailors are
with the fender. They each
We him hand and help him on board -.
About quarter Of a mile out thsr. =.
= sort Of boiling. aGitating the sur. ~
&c OF the sea. and showing sons dnsp -
0ubls In the waters. I was near ~.
II on the starboard quarter, and. snok. -
Z my cigar. was looking AZ the harbor =. -
appearing behind the point round Cane =. -
pchaFon. while the range Of the Can. ~ ~
sus ran mp into the western horizon ~ ~
my cigar there remained only IN. gu
q between my lips. and. taking a last &c
liR, I threw 4 overheard. WI
In an instant sheet Of fame burs, an
all around the steamer. The boiling s"'
me from submarine spring Of naph- ihs
Z, and the cigar end had set II aiirht. ho'
screams arse. The Astara rolls amid tiil
caves OF flame, but a movement ~ ~. the
I'm steers Us away from the flaming nor
ring. and we are out OF danger. Ths Oc'
plain comes aft and SAYS % me IN bus
gid tone:
That was a foolish thing to do gra
. Really. captain. did not know, bro
You ought always to know. SIR the
These words are uttered In a dry. esn- -
lkerous tone. few feet away from g
: &
turn to see who II Is. II f. the Eng. girl
woman who has read me this lttI. aalt
son II.
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