On the Trail of Geronimo — page 122: what you’re looking at

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112 ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. Dick; “can you form any idea of their number ?” 99 « There were not many “Be the powers!” broke in Windstrom, “ there was but asingle one. Isn’t he a bowldsojer boy?” This information was almost too astounding to be credited, but Josh Joggens confirmed it. All the money had been taken by a solitary person. By this time the rest were dismounted, and scrutinizing the earth in the immediate vicinity. Joggens and Windstrom, however, were the -only ones with enough skill to speak with certainty. They tollowed the footprints a couple of rods from the spot, and repeated what they said a few minutes before ; one individual had carried off the entire amount of gold, amounting to many thousand dollars. The discoveries of the two scouts authorized a number of important conclusions. The gold was too heavy for one man to transport, and he must therefore have made several trips—a fact which made the declaration of the scouts more striking. But this individual wore heavy shoes with pecul- larly large nails in the heels. Wherever the tracks could be seen clearly, the imprint of those nails was unmistakable.