On the Trail of Geronimo — page 209: what you’re looking at

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ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 197 The belief that it was his animal that was mak- ing off, and that their enemies were the cause of it, roused the Irish blood of the trooper, who, for the moment, threw prudence to the winds and started on a run for the pony. Had he been given time to approach the animal more deliberately, he would have had no difficulty in recapturing him, but the sight of a man running toward him, and only discernible in the moonlight, startled the steed into a gallop. The fact angered the trooper still more, and, threatening all sorts of punishment on the brute, he followed him out from among the bowlders on the open plain, where it would seem he had not the least chance of overhauling the exasperating creature. That their old enemies were near had already been proven in the most shocking manner; but it must be believed that the action of Windstrom was as much a surprise to them as it was to the friends he left behind. It was contrary to the principles of border warfare, and the very opposite of what might have been looked for on the part of a scout with such an experience as the indignant trooper. (C(O) mM