On the Trail of Geronimo — page 277: what you’re looking at

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ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 268 in order to make sure that the members of the party understood how to communicate with each other, when they should wish to reunite in the darkness. * There is a moon to night,” said the heutenant, as they were on the point of separating, “cand the sky is clear, but the moon doesn’t rise until very late.” | Joggens and Windstrom began stealing along the edge of the spur, toward the point two miles to the north, where the mystifying signal had been descried, while the course of the lieutenant and Bedford, for a time at least, was at right angles to the same. The two younger men did not need to be remind- ed of the exceeding delicacy of the task they had undertaken. They were about to follow the trail of a party of murdering Apaches into the moun- tains. These redskins were the masters of every bit of low cunning of which the human race is capa- ble, and, if they held any suspicion of such attempt, they would make the presumptuous troopers pay dear for it. As Whitcomb had said, the trail was marked so plainly that it could be readily followed, as long as there was any light of the sun to guide (C(O) nn) Cc 6)(0)(6) (C(O) mM