On the Trail of Geronimo — page 322: what you’re looking at

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308 ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. this was the hardest kind of work, and, but for the kind help of the young officer, the ladies would have fared badly indeed. The halt was made about a fourth of a mile be- yond the first camp in one of the wildest and most inaccessible portions of the mountains. A small fire was quickly kindled by a couple of the warriors, in such a situation that it could not be seen a hundred feet in any direction. Then most of the Apaches scattered to keep watch for the approach of their enemies. Thus it may be said that the hostile camps, with- in a couple of miles of each other, were each so sharply guarded as to be absolutely safe against surprise. Geronimo and two warriors were left in charge of the captives, no one of whom, not even the lieu- tenant himself, was bound. Such binding might take place soon, but it was not required as a mat- ter of safety, since Whitcomb himself realized there was not the shadow of a chance to get away. The intentions of Geronimo cannot be known of a certainty, but on one point there is no doubt: he would have shown no more mercy than a fam: ishing tiger. Comiclooolks (C(O) mM