"It is," duly answered Mataseis.
"Be it so, I admit it; it demands blood."
"It shall have it."
"Does it demand that one of us remain on this soil?"
Mataseis hesitated an instant.
"No," he at last replied.
"Very well; we will not fight with the whole blade."
"No, certainly; it appears to me that five inches will be sufficient."
"I think that will be too much," sententiously replied Sacatripas. "We only fight because our honour is attacked, and because we are caballeros; but the rage which just now excites us ought not to make us forget that we are brothers, and that we love one another very much."
"That is true, we love one another very much."