On the Trail of Geronimo — page 197: what you’re looking at

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ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 185 to their two companions, who generally had little to say in such matters. “ Buck Bragg and the other two men are as brave as any in the country, but they seem to for- get that their house is made of wood, which has been so dried in this furnace-like climate that a match will set it off like paper. I wonder that it has been spared so long.”’ “ Buck is a peculiar fellow,” added Joggens. “I am sure he knows we were right in urging him to go, but he feels it would be a reflection on his ability to take care of the females. He reasons that having kept them safe up to this time, he can do so to the end.” « Suppose we had not been there when the Apaches made their attack ?” inquired Dick. “T asked Buck that same question. He an- swered that the women would have kept them at bay until he and the other two men could have come up, when they would have driven them off.” “ It can’t be denied that they were promptly on hand ; a few minutes sooner and they would have caught the two that rode away.” “The trouble is,” added Windstrom, thoughtfully puffing his pipe, “that the spalpeens, having Comilcoooks (C(O) mM