Pero, baldament no hi hagués hagut cap destorb de pedra, la tasca hauria estat així mateix inútil, perque, si la post hagués estat foragitada del tot, Joe l'Indi no hauria pogut encabir el seu cos sota la porta, i ell ho sabia.
But if there had been no stony obstruction there the labor would have been useless still, for if the beam had been wholly cut away Injun Joe could not have squeezed his body under the door, and he knew it.