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Updated: May 17, 2025
Suddenly, from almost beneath my feet, the agile villain reappeared, staring at me with bright, bold eyes, advancing toward me as though to attack. He was no coward; with amazing agility he dodged a rock I threw at him, turning a back-spring and landing at my feet. For a moment we glared at each other, then he made off as though utterly unconscious of my presence.
But I had nothing to draw the well-riveted nail, and the back-spring resisted all my efforts to detach it. The haft, therefore, was of no more use than an ordinary piece of stick indeed, not so much, for just then it occurred to me that a piece of stick might serve my purpose better.
The haft came away in my hand; and as I passed my thumb over the end of it, I could perceive that the blade had snapped off close to the end of the back-spring, so that not even the tenth of an inch of it was left in the handle. I cannot describe the chagrin which this incident caused me. I at once recognised it as a misfortune of the very gravest kind, for without the knife what could I do?
"The A 1 double-action, back-spring, copper-fastened, broad-gauge telegraph line from here to the moon!" And away he ran to meet Kate, who was coming down the road. The mica-mine management appeared to be thoroughly in earnest about this extension of the telegraph line.
It is true I entertained it at first, but I soon discovered a difficulty not to be got over; and that was the removal of the back-spring. Could I only have got this out of the way, the haft would still have served for a handle. I could easily have inserted the broken end of the blade between the scales; and as I had plenty of good string, I might have tied it firmly there.
Well, having opened the knife, and drawn my fingers along the blade, and felt it over and over again, in order to get acquainted with its form and fitness; and then, having examined the back-spring, and tried its strength by various openings and shuttings: having done all this, I went to work upon the hard oak. You will wonder that I wanted to take all these precautions.
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