With unnatural strength she wrenched free her captured hand, and sternly fronted the other, a barely recognized shadow in the gloom.
"Permit me to pass," she exclaimed, clearly.

"How dare you hide here to halt me ?" The other exhibited her teeth, gleaming white and savage behind parted lips, yet she never stirred.
"Dare?
Pah! you vaste time to talk so," she cried brokenly, her voice trembling from passion.

"You no such fine lady now, senorita.

You see dis knife; I know how use eet quick.

Bah! you go to him like all de rest, but I vill know de truth first, if I have to cut eet out you.