On the Trail of Geronimo — page 33: what you’re looking at

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

ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 25 coach thrust the muzzle of his Winchester with incredible celerity into the vehicle, and fired at Dick, whose full attention was taken up with the other ruffian. The lieutenant’s career would have ended then and there but for hiscompanion. Buck was aston- ished by the boldness of the youth, but he did not allow the sentiment to handicap his action. Instant to anticipate the action of the other, he seized the muzzle of the rifle and struck it upward, just in time to send the bullet through the top of the coach, and within a few inches of Zach Emmons. Before the scamp could rally from his discomfit- ure, the deadly small weapon of the rancher was called into play, and it is safe to say that no man in the Southwest knew how to use it more eftfect- ively than he. Tt is safe to add, also, that no person in that sec- tion of our country was ever subjected to such a terrific personal bombardment as was that particu- lar road agent, inasmuch as the driver, crouching on top of the coach, concluded just then that 1 was time for him to take a hand in the proceedings. The man he decided to operate upon was the one Comilcoooks (C(O) mM