On the Trail of Geronimo — page 149: what you’re looking at

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

ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 139 CHAPTER XVII. THEY ARE THERE. THE lead was taken by Joggens and Windstrom, while close behind them followed the captain, the lieutenant, and the doctor, with the soldiers strag- gling along in no order, but with the silence of phantoms. For a while the men advanced in couples, but points were continually reached where only a single file was permitted. At such times. Windstrom fell behind Joggens, who invariably kept at the head, the others imitating the leaders’ actions without speaking a word. The path was rough, similar in many respects to that which led through the gorge into which the stage coach plunged, and the windings and turns were so frequent that the tramp became tire- some, even to the men who were accustomed to the severest kind of traveling. But there was no call for haste, since Captain Campereaux meant to adopt the practice of the CoOnniclooo S (C(O) im