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.

THE PLEA.
upon the Pueblo. This prisoner states that the party
captured no female whatever, and did not even see the
girl. I have come here to see you at their request, to ask
SaJtiago what became of the girl with whom he was walki og that night I"
1 was thunderstruck. The whole thing was no secret,
known not only to the girl's relations, but to the cacique
himself. What would be the result I How was it all to end?
While Don Rafael was interpreting the above speech to
him, I carefully watched Jimmy's face, to ascertain if possible the result of the request, so politely made, upon him,
but he betrayed no uneasiness, nor did he seem in the
least disturbed by the situation.
I don't think I have ever been able to correctly analyze my feelings, upon hearing Jimmy, for a reply to the
above direct interrogatory, so clearly propounded by the
cacique, as directly and positively deny that he was with or
saw the girl upon the night in question; while at the same
time he asserted that he was not only in camp during
the entire night,'i)ut was "figthin' the divils all the time,
right'long side ov the gintilmin there," pointing to the
do)ctor and myself, to whom he appealed to corroborate the
statement.
Here was a dilemma: unfortunately the close resemblance
I bear to the great and good G. W. (a resemblance recognized only by myself) has always prevented me from lying;
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