On the Trail of Geronimo — page 307: what you’re looking at

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ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 293 the law of probabilities, else the ranchman would have beaten off the Apaches when they attacked his home.” “What's to be done? But tell me first how ‘you made out.” “We had the best of luck,” replied the New Englander; “we had no trouble in stealing along the edge of the mountain to the point where we saw the signal fire this afternoon.” ‘And you found a party of Apaches there ?” “ Not a bit of 1t; Captain Campereaux and the boys are there. It was he who signaled to us, and he couldn’t for the life of him understand why it was the leftenant didn’t answer as he had prom- ised to do. The only guess he could make was that we didn’t see the smoke ; he was getting ready to make it still plainer or ride out to meet us, when we reached this place and were out of sight.” “Why didn’t hesend some one to give us notice?” was the natural query of Bedford. “You know what a touchy fellow the captain is ; he said the proposal to use an Apache signal came from the leftenant, and he made up his mind that since he had kept his part of the agreement, he would leave him to find out for himself. Our Conniclooo SJ (C(0) mM