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.

CHAPTER XXVII.
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formed by Don Rafael that Jimmy had
accompanied the nurse from camp the
night before, and that he did not return
until long after midnight. Deeming it
best to let Jimmy know that I was informed regarding his movements, though
I did not want him to think that I was inquiring, too closely into the secret of his
outgoings and incomings, I called him to me, and asked him
his reason for absenting himself from camp the night before.
He replied that "he warked'beside his mither-in-lor
to the town beyant, in order that he might protict her from
eny sthray bands of Navajoes that might be prowlin' through
the counthry."
Of course, to so reasonable an excuse as this, I could
offer no objections, as Jimmy had so clearly demonstrated
in a previous instance both his ability and disposition to
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