On the Trail of Geronimo — page 59: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 51 Discovering that he was going to faint, he quickly wrapped the reins around the iron hook at the corner of the footboard, and threw himself back behind the treasure box. He was still confident that, by taking a prone position, he would soon master his weakness, and that it was not necessary to check the horses. Finding, however, his senses leaving him, he called to his friends in the coach below, but his voice was so weak that they did not hear it, and every- thing quickly became chaos. While lolling helplessly about on the top of the coach, a lurch must have thrown him to the ground at the rear. The shock caused him partially to revive, and he crawled to the side of the highway, where unconsciousness again overtook him. While lying thus, the road agent must have passed him, _ lying down a short distance beyond to breathe out his life. Zach’s position was made as easy as possible in the vehicle, and the return took place on a slow walk. ‘The driver, as may be supposed, was pro- foundly interested in the story that Buck had to tell him of the fate of the stage coach, after he parted company with it. He had nothing but CoOnniclooo S (C(O) mM