On the Trail of Geronimo — page 291: what you’re looking at

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ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 217 some potent message to the dusky fighters on the plains. What was the import of that message? Ah, that was the question, to which it was vain to seek a reply until answered by the incidents themselves ; but the lieutenant recalled with a shudder that he and his small command were in about as bad a sit- uation as they could well be, without being actual prisoners. The four were scattered in all directions. Wind- strom and Joggens were stealing along the edge ot the plain, on their way to the site of the signal fire, fully two miles away. Ray Bedford was in the mountains, not far off, hunting for the same group that was under the eye of his heutenant. In the event of aslip on the part of any member of the company, he would be without the possibility of partial support even, unless in the case of Wind- strom and Joggens. Nothing was left for the leutenant to do except to withdraw, bring his men together, seek out Cap- tain Campereaux, and join in a vigorous pursuit of Geronimo and his warriors. ‘There was little pros- pect of this being of the slightest help to the fe- males, who could be carried off much faster than GOnNiGoooks (CO) mM