On the Trail of Geronimo — page 259: what you’re looking at

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ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 24% CHAPTER XXIX. THE SIGNAL FIRE. Iv must be borne in mind that everything went with a hurricane rush, and that the desperate fight between the ambushed cavalrymen and Gero- nimo’s Apaches was over before a spectator would have thought it fairly begun. The warrior who made such a vicious blow at Windstrom as he dashed past, swerved and headed for Joggens, who had no time to prepare himself to give him proper reception, though he darted to one side and gathered himself together with sur- prising quickness. It may have been that the failure of the Apache to deliver an effective blow in the case of his first antagonist gave him distrust of his ability to do better with the second; for, at the moment he ought to have struck, he swerved again, and, with- out diminishing his speed in the least, shot seem- ingly under the very arm of the astonished New CoOmilcoooks (C(O) mM