On the Trail of Geronimo — page 157: what you’re looking at

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ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 147 CHAPTER XVIII. ONE OF MANY. THE plan of campaign was simple. The best investigation that Joggens and Windstrom could make showed that there was but the single trail leading to the small plateau, though in the stress of an attack the agile Apaches would doubtless find it easy to leave the place by any point of the compass. The plan, as explained by Captain Campereaux, was for the men to surround the sleeping Apaches, and then, at the command, open fire with carbine and rifle, and shoot down the wretches from every direction. They were sure to fight like tigers, but the whites were equally brave, and outnumbered them more than two to one. There would be no quarter given or taken on either side; the fight was to be to the death. Captain Campereaux held up the face of his watch, so that the full moonlight fell upon it. ‘“ Half past four,” he whispered. “It will begin (C(O) nn) (C 6)(0)(6)