Throw your knife on the ground." Gato snarled, but he was cowed.

The brutal manager held his employer in awe.

He was about to cast his weapon down when Tom Reade interposed.
"Don Luis, I ask you to let the fellow go on.

This question will have to be settled right before we can proceed.

This fellow is only a coward, or he wouldn't need a knife in fighting with a man half his size." "Better throw away your knife, my good Gato," purred Don Luis, "or Senor Reade will shoot you." "I won't," Tom retorted.