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Title: Tonio, Son of the Sierras
A Story of the Apache War

Author: Charles King

Illustrator: Charles J. Post

Release Date: November 15, 2007 [EBook #23487]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Tonio, Son of the Sierras, erect and slender.
_Frontispiece_]

TONIO

SON OF THE SIERRAS

_A Story of the Apache War_

By

GENERAL CHARLES KING

AUTHOR OF

"NORMAN HOLT," "THE IRON BRIGADE,"
"THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER,"
"A DAUGHTER OF THE SIOUX," ETC.

Illustrations by

CHARLES J. POST

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Copyright, 1906, by

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

_Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_
_All rights reserved_

Issued June, 1906.

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

Tonio, Son of the Sierras, erect and slender _Frontispiece_ 8

Scrambling down the adjacent slope every man for himself 81

"Keep watch now all around, especially east and southeast" 175

"They've opened on Case and Clancy" 188

TONIO

SON OF THE SIERRAS

CHAPTER I.

"Does it never rain here?" asked the Latest Arrival, with sudden shift
of the matter under discussion.

"How is that, Bentley?" said the officer addressed to the senior
present, the surgeon. "You've been here longest."

"Don't know, I'm sure," was the languid answer. "I've only been here
three years. Try 'Tonio there. He was born hereabouts."

So the eyes of the six men turned to the indicated authority, an Apache
of uncertain age. He looked to be forty and m