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Updated: September 5, 2025
Within, that competent functionary, Deputy Sheriff Breck Quarles, sat at ease in his shirt sleeves, engaged, with the smaller blade of his pocketknife, in performing upon his finger nails an operation that combined the fine deftness of the manicure with the less delicate art of the farrier.
"Who's going to carve?" asked Sally May surveying with a certain dismay a plump brown bird and a seemingly inadequate pocketknife. "Draw lots," suggested Rosamond. "Uggledy wuggledy doo, Rackety wackety boo, Out goes you!" "Here, Jane, you're it." And Jane lost no time in attacking her job. "My children! what do you think?
Oh, and I forgot," he put his hand in his pocket and drew forth a pocketknife, a wad of string and a little three-cornered note. "He asked me to give this to you as soon as I saw you. So now you can tell him that 'I seen my duty and I done it noble. " With a twinkle in his eye Will turned back to the others and Betty was left to open her note.
It was about a foot thick, and the bricks were well laid, in good cement. "Not much show there," he reasoned grimly. "If a fellow had time, it could be done. But it would take hours with only a pocketknife and they'd be sure to hear the noise. I must see if there isn't some other way." He listened at the door for a moment.
The children's studies were under the direction of a poor devil employed at the town-hall, who sharpened his pocketknife on his boots and was famous for his penmanship. When the weather was fine, they went to Geffosses. The house was built in the centre of the sloping yard; and the sea looked like a grey spot in the distance.
The jailer wet his lips with his tongue. The pencil and pocketknife fell to the floor. Covered by his own gun, now in Rathburn's hand, he moved to the door, brought out his key, and opened it. Still keeping him covered, Rathburn backed to the bench, snatched up his coat, and walked out of the cage, motioning to the jailer to precede him into the office.
He had even no definite idea as to what manner of death to choose; all that mattered was to be done with it quickly to have it over and forget. He had no weapon in the room, not even a pocketknife; but that was of no consequence a towel would do, or a sheet torn into strips. There was a large nail just over the window. That would do; but it must be firm to bear his weight.
"I have a small pocketknife which they overlooked when they searched me," and in this way he succeeded in ridding himself of the ape-man's attentions that he might find and open his little knife and cut the thong which fastened the pouch about Chulk's shoulder, and transfer it from his waist band to the breast of his shirt. Then he rose and approached Tarzan. Once again had avarice claimed him.
"I'se found de boys!" cried the colored man in delight. "I'se found de boys!" And he plunged on again until he gained the clearing where the three lads were tied to the trees. With his pocketknife he cut their bonds. "Good for you, Aleck!" cried Dick. "I am more than glad to see you!" "And so am I," added Sam and Tom in a breath.
When it was clear that the members of the family were in bed the Grand Army man hitched his shoulders and, untangling his long legs, caught his heels on the rounds of his chair. "S'pose there'll be a will, Phelps?" he queried in his weak falsetto. The banker laughed disagreeably and began trimming his nails with a pearl-handled pocketknife.
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