On the Trail of Geronimo — page 328: what you’re looking at

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314 ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. warning for him to hold his peace. “I caught something said by Geronimo just then.” “¢ What was it?” “The chief asked him ‘ When’ andthe reply was ‘After the sun went down.’ Then Geronimo asked him ‘ Where, and the full reply I could not hear ; can you form any idea what they referred to?” Dick shook his head. ‘Tt is impossible. Of course he spoke of some events which took place after sunset, but there have been a good many things in which we are all concerned, that have happened since the sun went down. As the reader has suspected, the chief was agi- tated by the tidings that his favorite son was a prisoner of the cavalry. It was natural that Gero- nimo should be stirred, as he was not often stirred, and it will be understood by the reader that it was altogether beyond the ability of Lieutenant Whit- comb and Miss Harland to form any conjecture as to the cause of the excitement, so long as no tang)- ble hint reached their ears. Connicloooks (GO)