Spade said: “Don’t be a damned fool again. You let Cairo whisper to you and you held the kid while I pasted him. You can’t laugh that off and you’re likely to get yourself shot trying to.”
Gutman moved his feet on the rug and said nothing.
Spade said: “And the other side of it is that you’ll either say yes right now or I’ll turn the falcon and the whole goddamned lot of you in.”
Gutman raised his head and muttered through his teeth: “I don’t like that, sir.”
“You won’t like it,” Spade said. “Well?”
The fat man sighed and made a wry face and replied sadly: “You can have him.”
Spade said: “That’s swell.”