The further adventures of Zorro

Throughout a long summer day of more than a hundred years ago the high fog had obscured the flaming ball of sun, and the coast of Southern California had been bathed in a haze.

Sergeant Pedro Gonzales, a giant of a wine-guzzling soldier whose heart was as large as his capacity for liquor, was known as “Pedro the Boaster.” When there were military dutie...

While the blushes played across her cheeks, Señorita Lolita Pulido sat at one end of the big table in the great living-room of her father’s house and watched the final preparati...

Barbados continued to mutter curses as he watched the sky. Not a cloud marred its face, and the moon was at the full. But here was an enterprise where there was small risk, so h...

Barbados had saved the _casa_ of Don Diego Vega for the last. He had kept an eye upon it, however, while his men were looting the town, but had seen nothing to indicate danger f...

At the _hacienda_ of Don Carlos Pulido the outer door was opened slowly, stealthily. A villainous face showed. Then the door was thrown open wide and half a dozen men stormed in...

There was a moment of horrified silence, during which nothing was heard save the soft lap of the sea against the shore and the labored breathing of the terrified pirates. And th...

Señorita Lolita Pulido, after a time, was conducted by Barbados to a tiny cabin below decks. It was no more than eight feet square, and had a bunk along one side of it. Certainl...

Señor Zorro, having concluded his song, crept over boxes and bales to the little door of the storeroom. There he crouched and listened for a time, but heard nothing save the noi...

Sanchez and some of the others shrieked in terror. Barbados, cursing loudly, strode to the middle of the deck, whirled around, brandished his cutlass as though he would have fou...

There was no dawn in the dark, evil-odored storeroom, but Señor Zorro, by peering through the crack and into the little cabin, could tell of the approach of the day. The interio...

Upon the frantic departure of Don Diego Vega from Reina de Los Angeles, Don Audre Ruiz took command of the situation and the _caballeros_ simultaneously. There was none willing...

The _caballeros_ dismounted stiffly and gathered near the water line. In from the distant trading schooner a boat was coming, driven over the choppy water by silent oarsmen. Hal...

Smiling in the face of death, Señor Zorro yet battled to keep from showing his genuine emotions, because of the presence of the _señorita_. But in that awful moment when he stoo...

The schooner sailed on, and came against the pirate ship with a crash. But here was a battle unlike the usual one when honest men met pirates. As a usual thing, the pirates coul...

Barbados was like a maniac after the pirate craft swung away from the trading schooner. He shrieked at his men to make sail, and they needed but little urging. The fear of the s...

The pirates evidently had decided to make the fight at some little distance from their huts and adobe houses, so they rushed forward, shrieking their battle-cries, brandishing t...

Señorita Lolita Pulido passed into the store room of the adobe building with her head erect and a look of pride in her face, as has been said. But when the heavy door was closed...

There was a moment of astonishment for all three of them. Then the Señorita Lolita gave a little cry of mingled fright and despair, and recoiled against the wall. Señor Zorro de...

Captain Ramón bade the woman guard the _señorita_ well, and then hurried from the adobe building. Just in front of it he stopped to look over the scene. Dead men were scattered...

Señor Zorro, on the back of the infuriated and unmanageable stallion, had made his escape easily from the pirate camp. There was no question of him being overtaken, but for a ti...

“_Sí!_ Zorro!” came the answer. “There is not water enough in all the sea to drown me while there remains something to be avenged. We have crossed blades before, _señor_, and I...

Captain Ramón, hurrying outside, found Barbados in the open space before the other adobe building. The pirate chief, it was easy to see, had been drinking heavily of rich, stole...

Señor Zorro fought the battle of his life, after the little _señorita_ had gone and the door had been closed and barred, to keep from showing his elation in his face.

In that instant, as he watched the singing Zorro racing up the slope toward the crest, Captain Ramón realized that his future was hanging by a very thin thread. Were he to prote...

On the occasion of this meeting it was Señor Zorro who was properly astonished instead of his foe. Captain Ramón had been the last person he had seen at the pirates’ camp; he ha...

Barbados, who had been drinking heavily of the rich, stolen wine since the culmination of the fight with the _caballeros_ and the crew of the trading schooner, had reached the s...

Left behind helpless in the guard room of the _presidio_, Señor Zorro fought to control his emotions, telling himself that he could think out no proper line of action while his...

The captain had told Barbados how to arrange an ambush at the head of the cañon, and he expected to lead the troopers around the ambush and to the rear, cutting the pirates off...

He kicked at the mount’s flanks and rode like the wind in the wake of the troopers. He knew that he was gaining on them, but they had such an advantage of time that he realized...

The appearance of Señor Zorro at the scene of battle when he was supposed to be behind bars in the _presidio_ at San Diego de Alcála terrified Captain Ramón. He had a sudden fee...