Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained. [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."