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door
looking for a weak spot in its construction.
    He could not find any.
    This door had been forged like the bars
themselves. Sheets of iron had been riveted together. It was a
masterful piece of workmanship.
    It was an exhausted Iron Eyes
who rested his still swollen face against its cold surface. He
closed his eyes and sighed heavily. Then he started to wonder again if
there might not be someone in the sheriff’s office.
    He strained to hear if there were any sounds
coming from that direction. Iron Eyes could not detect any sign of
life and bit his lip.
    They must have left him alone, he concluded!
He nodded silently to himself.
    He pushed himself away from the door and
wondered how he would manage to get past it. He knew that he could
dig himself under this obstacle as well, but he had no stomach even
to try. He knew that time was running out. Every passing moment
meant that more and more people in this remote settlement would be
rising to start a new day.
    He wondered if the lawmen were early
risers!
    Suddenly his eyes focused on
the doorframe itself. It too was made of metal. Iron Eyes nodded to
himself. The notorious hunter of men realized that to hold such a heavy door
the frame would also have to be far stronger than any ordinary
one.
    He took a step closer to the frame and
touched the three hefty hinges in turn.
    Whoever had created this masterpiece had made
one error, he thought.
    They had erected it the wrong way around.
    The hinges were meant to be on the opposite
side, facing into the office itself. Not on the cell side.
    Iron Eyes reached down to his boot again and
pulled out his trusty knife.
    He knew that however keen a knife was, it was
no match for a solid metal door, but the hinge pins were a
different matter. They could be forced from the hinges. Once they
were out, the sheer weight of the door would be enough to break
even the strongest of locks.
    Iron Eyes carefully used the
blade to lever the pin out of the top hinge. Slowly he rocked his
sturdy knife until the long brass pin was freed from the hinge. He pulled it
clear and tossed it through the bars on to the cot. Then he
repeated the action on the middle hinge. This time it was harder to
work the pin upwards. He had to use every scrap of his remaining
strength before it too was removed.
    Again the bony hands tossed the pin on to the
cot.
    The last hinge was the most stubborn and
potentially the most dangerous to remove. The door might come
crashing down on him if he were careless.
    Iron Eyes had to kneel to use his deadly
knife. The bounty hunter forced the honed edge into the narrow gap
above the hinge and twisted it. Time and time again the blade
slipped off the brass pin and scratched the paint off the
frame.
    Iron Eyes then realized that
all the weight of the heavy door was now weighing down on the
bottom hinge. He pushed his shoulder into the cold metal surface of
the door and felt it move a fraction of an inch. He then quickly used
his knife blade again to prize the pin up and out of its
well-crafted home. It fell at his feet.
    The exhausted figure kept his shoulder on the
door as he slowly rose up again to his full height. He knew that if
he made one mistake the door might fall and crush him.
    Cautiously, he placed the palms of both hands
upon the riveted surface. He had no idea what the heavy door might
do once he released his grip from it.
    Would it remain where it was?
    Would it fall into the jail?
    What if it fell and bounced? He could have
both legs broken like dry kindling if such a weight glanced across
him.
    Sweat trickled down his hideously mutilated
features as he moved to the side of the doorframe. He kept his
hands pressing against it to keep it steady.
    Iron Eyes removed his hands and
pressed himself into the corner beside the doorframe. For a few seconds
nothing happened.
    Then it groaned.
    Iron Eyes gritted his teeth and watched as
the door fell away from its frame. The lock shattered and it
crashed on to the floor so heavily it