The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

JIMMY ARRAIGNED.
A man about to receive sentence of transportation for
life, or of death at the hands of Judge Lynch, could not
have appeared more hopelessly bewildered than did Jimmy
at this summons; and for a moment I really expected to
see him turn, and ignominiously run for the plain.
Not so, however. Jimmy was created of sterner stuff.
Having made up his mind to meet the issue, he approached
the cacique with the air of a man determined to bear his
fate like a hero; just such an air as I fancy the lamented
John Rogers wore, who was burned at the stake in
Smithfield, England, as he bade adieu to his "wife with
nine small children, and one at the breast."
In one thing Jimmy possessed a decided advantage. The
cacique was obliged to talk through an interpreter, and
that interpreter was, perforce, Don Rafael, Jimmy's friend,
who knew just enough of diplomacy to shape his replies
so as to please the ear of the august personage in whose
presence we were.
As no one but ourselves knew aught of the moonlight
stroll, the interview must have reference to the presents that
Jimmy had so inconsiderately given the "gurl," and which
I had required her to return; or perhaps to the draught that
Jimmy had quaffed, in the presence of the cacique himself,
from the Sacred Spring. In the latter case, we could not
calculate with certainty the result of the investigation which
it was very evident was about to be instituted; but if the
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