On the Trail of Geronimo — page 161: what you’re looking at

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ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 151 No better proof could be given of the fancied security of the Apache leader and his men than the fact that he had not a single guard stationed round the camp. Had he dreamed that his enemies were anywhere within striking distance, a fourth of his best warriors would have been on the watch, and the approach of the troopers undiscovered ren- dered impossible. | Suddenly, from out of the gloom, Lieutenant Whitcomb caught the outlines. of an Indian. He had walked slowly from the tiny fire, and, without the least warning, stood in front of the young off- cer not more than fifty feet distant. The bank of clouds that had been creeping up the sky for the last half hour now fully veiled the face of the moon, so that but for the blaze 1t would have been impos- sible to locate the camp. But it must soon begin growing light in the east. Daybreak was near, and the signal of Captain Cam- pereaux could not be delayed much longer. The lieutenant and the soldiers immediately near him saw the single Apache plainly, as he stood for a full minute like a statue. Nothing would have been easier than to shoot him down, and more than one palm itched to do so. But the orders of the leader Conniclooo