"He's going to escape! Shall we shoot, sir?
Shall we shoot ?" "For Heaven's sake, no!" said Amyas, looking somewhat blank, nevertheless, for he much doubted whether the whole was not a ruse on the part of the Spaniard, and he knew how impossible it was for his fifteen stone of flesh to give chase to the Spaniard's twelve.

But he was soon reassured; the Spaniard wheeled round towards him, and began to put the rough hackney through all the paces of the manege with a grace and skill which won applause from the beholders.
"Thus!" he shouted, waving his hand to Amyas, between his curvets and caracoles, "did my illustrious grandfather exhibit to the Paynim emperor the prowess of a Castilian cavalier! Thus!--and thus!--and thus, at last, he dashed up to his very feet, as I to yours, and bespattering that unbaptized visage with his Christian bridle foam, pulled up his charger on his haunches, thus!" And (as was to be expected from a blown Irish garron on a peaty Irish hill-side) down went the hapless hackney on his tail, away went his heels a yard in front of him, and ere Don Guzman could "avoid his selle," horse and man rolled over into neighboring bog-hole.
"After pride comes a fall," quoth Yeo with unmoved visage, as he lugged him out.
"And what would you do with the emperor at last ?" asked Amyas when the Don had been scrubbed somewhat clean with a bunch of rushes.

"Kill him, as your grandfather did Atahuallpa ?" "My grandfather," answered the Spaniard, indignantly, "was one of those who, to their eternal honor, protested to the last against that most cruel and unknightly massacre.

He could be terrible to the heathen; but he kept his plighted word, sir, and taught me to keep mine, as you have seen to-day." "I have, senor," said Amyas.

"You might have given us the slip easily enough just now, and did not.