On the Trail of Geronimo — page 182: what you’re looking at

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170 ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. expect some resistance from the women, but they were not afraid of that. Lieutenant Dick insisted that the females should take no part at allin the impending fight. The front door (there being only one on the outside, the others opening from the square) was hastily closed. So were the few narrow windows, and the building was ready for all and any attacks. Dick and his friends, carbines in hand, made their way to the roof of the structure, where they lay down, taking care that no one should catch sightof them. A heavy wall of bullet proof plank- ing extended along the edge of the flat roof, having been placed there for the purpose of serving as a screen in just such an emergency as now threat- ened. “ We'll teach them a lesson,” said the lieutenant, “that they won’t forget for the rest of their lives. We'll let them come as close as they wish, and when we open on them there mustn’t be any shots thrown away.” Joggens, Windstrom, and their companions were in high spirits over the prospect of paying back some of the Apaches in their own coin. Beyond question the warriors were in complete ignorance Conniclooolkxs (C(0) mM