On the Trail of Geronimo — page 23: what you’re looking at

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

ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 15 There were three passengers in the stage beside himself—a middle-aged man, his wife, and a specu- lator, not so old. All were booked for Tucson, though the speculator expected to penetrate further into the interior in the course of a few weeks. The first real comfort of the frightful journey from Yuma was at this quaint adobe city, where the stage paused long enough to give Dick time not only to eat his meals, but to stretch his limbs and wander about the place. To his surprise, he found that there was but a single passenger beside himself when the journey was resumed. ‘This was a man not more than three or four and twenty, who was evidently a cattleman or cowboy. He wore the broad-brimmed sombrero, a blue shirt without coat or vest, trousers tucked in the tops of his boots, and carried a revolver and repeating Winchester. He had a rather pleasing face, and since he was disposed to be neighborly, and the weather had moderated somewhat, Dick was very glad to meet him half way in the conversation, which the cowboy opened by the natural question: “JT ’spose you're a young officer going to j’ine your command ?” CoOnniclooo (CO)