On the Trail of Geronimo — page 200: what you’re looking at

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188 ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. to themselves, were not long in imitating them, so that at a comparatively early hour the only mem- bers of the party ewake were the sentinels. These men did their duty well. ‘They could not have been more alert had they known that Gero- nimo and fifty of his fiercest warriors were prowl- ing near and waiting for them to close their eyes. The guards, being on opposite sides of the camp, and some distance apart, could not see each other, but they exchanged signals at intervals. These were soft, faint whistles, such as are sometimes heard from the throats of birds in the night, and they were so skillfully disguised that it is doubtful whether they would have been recognized by any hostile ears. When one of the sentinels emitted that peculiar call and it was answered by the other, it simply meant that everything was well with both of the guards. A failure to reply on the part of either would be cause for alarm. These interchanges were not interrupted as the night wore on, and the bright moon appeared in the sky. The rising of the orb was so much past midnight that the agreement was that when it ap- peared Windstrom and Bedford should go off duty, GOnmiGodooks (C(O) mM