We're better off without a coward like that.

He'd be getting under our feet all the time, or else opening the doors to the Caesars, with the idea of currying favor with them.

Where did you ever pick up such an arrant little poltroon?
Most Japs are plucky enough." "Hade lent him to us," said Milo, evidently impressed by Brice's athletic demonstration against the little Oriental.
"Sato worked for him, after Hade's regular butler fell ill.
He--" "H'm!" mused Brice.

"A hanger-on of Hade's, eh?
That may explain it.

Sato's cowardice may have been a bit of rather clever acting.