On the Trail of Geronimo — page 119: what you’re looking at

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ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 109 man to follow is to do what seems the right thing at the moment the crisis comes.” “ft is a good rule no doubt at times,” replied Dick, * but it is not always the safest course.” Facing southward, the party discovered that a faint trail led through the gorge for an indefinite distance. Had the heutenant known of its exist- ence the night before, a laborious tramp would have been saved him. Like all such paths, it was very tortuous, the bowlders compelling many detours. “‘There’s where the stage said good-bye when it ’ remarked the lieutenant some time later, as he drew up his steed, “and I followed it part of the way.” took its plunge,’ The group spent several minutes in gazing at the scene of the disaster. The solid stone wall, as has been stated, was fully three hundred feet high. While there was a slight slope for most of the dis- tance, there were many portions where it was a sheer perpendicular, and from a point fifty feet above the base the wall trended inward. No won- der the tough old coach was shattered to frag- ments. Wearied at length with gazing aloft and com- (C(O) nn) (@ 6)(0)(6) (C(O) mM