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35 - Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley · Mark of Zorro

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  Speaker 1: The clash of blades again. Senor Tsorro stood like a
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  Speaker 1: statue in the native's hut, one hand grasping his horse's muzzle.
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  Speaker 1: The native crouched at his side. Down the highway came
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  Speaker 1: the drumming of horses hoofs. Then the pursuit swept by,
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  Speaker 1: the men calling to one another and cursing the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: and rushed down the valley. Senor Tsorro opened the door
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  Speaker 1: and glanced out, listened for a moment, and then led
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  Speaker 1: out his horse. He tendered the native a coin, not
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  Speaker 1: from you signor. The native said, take it. You have
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  Speaker 1: need of it, and I have not, the highwayman said.
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  Speaker 1: He vaulted into the saddle and turned his horse up
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  Speaker 1: the steep slope of the hill behind the hut. The
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  Speaker 1: animal made little noise as it climbed to the summit.
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  Speaker 1: Senor Tzarro descended into the depression on the other side
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  Speaker 1: and came to a narrow trail, and along this he
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  Speaker 1: rode at a slow gallop, stopping his mount now and
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  Speaker 1: then to listen for cunds of other horsemen who might
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  Speaker 1: be abroad. He rode toward Reina de Los Angeles, but
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  Speaker 1: he appeared to be in no hurry about arriving at
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  Speaker 1: the pueblo. Sigorzarro had another adventure planned for this night,
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  Speaker 1: and it had to be accomplished at a certain time
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  Speaker 1: and under certain conditions. It was two hours later when
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  Speaker 1: he came to the crest of the hill above the town.
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  Speaker 1: He sat quietly in the saddle for some time, regarding
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  Speaker 1: the scene. The moonlight was fitful now, but now and
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  Speaker 1: then he could make out the plaza. He saw no troopers,
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  Speaker 1: heard nothing of them. Decided that they had ridden back
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  Speaker 1: in pursuit of him, and that those who had been
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  Speaker 1: sent in pursuit of Don Carlos and the Dona Catalina
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  Speaker 1: had not yet returned. In the tavern there were lights,
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  Speaker 1: and in the presidio and in the house where his
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  Speaker 1: excellency was a guest. Signor Czarro waited until it was dark,
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  Speaker 1: and then urged his horse forward, slowly, but off the
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  Speaker 1: main highway. He circled the pueblo and in time approached
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  Speaker 1: the presidio from the rear. He dismounted now and led
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  Speaker 1: his horse, going forward slowly, often stopping to listen. For
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  Speaker 1: this was a very ticklish business. It might end in
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  Speaker 1: disaster if a mistake were made. He stopped the horse
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  Speaker 1: behind the presidio, where the wall of the building would
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  Speaker 1: cast a shadow if the moon came from behind the
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  Speaker 1: clouds again, and went forward cautiously following the wall, as
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  Speaker 1: he had done on that other night. When he came
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  Speaker 1: to the office window, he peered inside. Captain Ramon was
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  Speaker 1: there alone, looking over some reports spread on the table
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  Speaker 1: before him, evidently awaiting the return of his men. Senor
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  Speaker 1: Czarro crept to the corner of the building and found
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  Speaker 1: there was no guard. He had guessed and hoped that
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  Speaker 1: the Commandante had sent every available man to the chase,
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  Speaker 1: but he knew that he would have to act quickly,
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  Speaker 1: for some of the troopers might return. Slipped through the
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  Speaker 1: door and crossed the big lounging room, and so came
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  Speaker 1: to the door of the office. His pistol was in
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  Speaker 1: his hand, and could a man have seen behind the mask,
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  Speaker 1: he would have observed that Senor Zorro's lips were crushed
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  Speaker 1: in a thin, straight line of determination, as upon that
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  Speaker 1: other night. Captain Ramond whirled around in his chair when
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  Speaker 1: he heard the door open behind him, and once more
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  Speaker 1: he saw the eyes of Signor Czorro glittering through his mask,
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  Speaker 1: saw the muzzle of the pistol menacing him. Not a move,
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  Speaker 1: not a sound. It would give me pleasure to fill
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  Speaker 1: your body with hot lead. Senor Tzorro said, you are alone.
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  Speaker 1: Your silly troopers are chasing me where I am not
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  Speaker 1: by the saints. Captain Ramon breathed, not so much as
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  Speaker 1: a whisper. Signor if you hope to live, turn your
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  Speaker 1: back to me. You would murder me. I am not
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  Speaker 1: that sort, commandante, And I said, for you to make
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  Speaker 1: not a sound, put your hands behind your back, for
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  Speaker 1: I am going to bind your wrists. Captain Ramon complied.
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  Speaker 1: Senorzarro stepped forward swiftly and bound the wrists with his
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  Speaker 1: own sash, which he tore from his waist. Then he
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  Speaker 1: whirled Captain Ramone around so that he faced him. Where
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  Speaker 1: is his excellency, he asked, at Don Juan Estados's house.
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  Speaker 1: I knew as much, but wanted to see whether you
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  Speaker 1: prefer to speak the truth to night. It is well
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  Speaker 1: if you do so, we are going to call upon
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  Speaker 1: the governor to call upon his excellency, I said, and
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  Speaker 1: do not speak again. Come with me. He grasped Captain
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  Speaker 1: Ramond by the arm and hurried him from the office
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  Speaker 1: across the lounging room. Out of the door. He piloted
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  Speaker 1: him around the building to where the horse was waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Mount He commanded, I shall sit behind you with the
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  Speaker 1: muzzle of this pistol at the base of your brain.
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  Speaker 1: Make no mistake, Commandante, unless you are tired of life.
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  Speaker 1: I am a determined man this night, Captain Ramon had
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  Speaker 1: observed it. He mounted as he was directed, and the
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  Speaker 1: highwayman mounted behind him, and held the reins with one
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  Speaker 1: hand and the pistol with the other. Captain Ramond could
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  Speaker 1: feel the touch of cold steel at the back of
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  Speaker 1: his head. Senorzarro guided his horse with his knees instead
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  Speaker 1: of with the reins. He urged the beast down the
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  Speaker 1: slope and circled the town once more, keeping away from
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  Speaker 1: the beaten trails, and so approached the rear of the house,
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  Speaker 1: where his Excellency was a guest. Here was the difficult
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  Speaker 1: part of the adventure. He wanted to get Captain Ramond
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  Speaker 1: before the governor, to talk to both of them, and
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  Speaker 1: to do it without having anybody else interfere. He forced
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  Speaker 1: the captain to dismount and led him to the rear wall.
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  Speaker 1: Of the house. There was a patio there, and they
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  Speaker 1: entered it. It appeared that Senor czarro knew the interior
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  Speaker 1: of the house well. He entered it through a servant's room,
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  Speaker 1: taking Captain Ramond with him, and passed through into a
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  Speaker 1: hall without awakening the sleeping native. They went along the
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  Speaker 1: hall slowly. From one room came the sound of snoring
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  Speaker 1: from beneath the door of another. Light streamed. Senor Zorro
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  Speaker 1: stopped before that door and applied an eye to a
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  Speaker 1: crack at the side of it. If Captain Ramond harbored
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of voicing an alarm, or of offering battle, the
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  Speaker 1: touch of the pistol at the back of his head
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  Speaker 1: caused him to forget them, and he had scant time
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  Speaker 1: to think of a way out of this predicament. For
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  Speaker 1: suddenly Senorzuro threw open the door, hurled Captain Ramond through it,
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  Speaker 1: followed himself, and shut the door quickly behind him. In
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  Speaker 1: the room there were his excellency and his host. Silence,
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  Speaker 1: and do not move, Senorzorro said, the slightest alarm, and
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  Speaker 1: I put a pistol ball through the Governor's head. That
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  Speaker 1: is understood very well Signor Senor sorrow. The Governor gasped
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  Speaker 1: the same, Your excellency, I ask your host to be
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  Speaker 1: not frightened, for I mean him no harm if he
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  Speaker 1: sits quietly until I am done. Captain Ramond, kindly sit
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  Speaker 1: across the table from the Governor. I am delighted to
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  Speaker 1: find the head of the state awake and waiting news
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  Speaker 1: from those who are chasing me. His brain will be
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  Speaker 1: clear and he can understand better what is said. What
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  Speaker 1: means this outrage? The Governor exclaimed, Captain Ramond, how comes this?
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  Speaker 1: Seize this man? You are an officer, Do not blame
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  Speaker 1: the commandante. Senor Zorro said, he knows it is death
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  Speaker 1: to make a move. There is a little matter that
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  Speaker 1: needs explanation, and since I cannot come to you in
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  Speaker 1: broad day as a man should, I am forced to
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  Speaker 1: adopt this method. Make yourselves comfortable. Signores, this may take
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  Speaker 1: some little time. Is excellency fidgeted in his chair. You
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  Speaker 1: have this insulted a family of good blood, Your excellency,
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  Speaker 1: Senor Zorro went on, you have forgotten the proprieties to
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  Speaker 1: such an extent that you have ordered thrown into your
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  Speaker 1: miserable carcel a Hidalgo and his gentle wife, an innocent daughter.
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  Speaker 1: You have taken such means to gratify a spite. They
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  Speaker 1: are traitors, His excellency said, what have they done of treason?
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  Speaker 1: You are an outlaw with a price put upon your head.
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  Speaker 1: They have been guilty of harboring you, giving you aid.
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  Speaker 1: Where got you this information? Captain Ramon has an abundance
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  Speaker 1: of evidence a the commandante, Hey, we shall see about that.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Ramon is present and we can get at the truth.
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  Speaker 1: May I ask the nature of your evidence? You were
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  Speaker 1: at the Palido Hacienda, the governor said, I admit it.
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  Speaker 1: A native saw you and carried word to the presidio.
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  Speaker 1: The soldiers hurried out to affect your capture. A moment,
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  Speaker 1: who said a native sounded the alarm? Captain Ramon assured me,
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  Speaker 1: So here is the first chance for the captain to
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  Speaker 1: speak the truth. As a matter of fact, Commandante, was
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  Speaker 1: it not Don Carlos Pulito himself who sent the native
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  Speaker 1: the truth? It was a native brought word, And he
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  Speaker 1: did not tell your sergeant that Don Carlos had sent him.
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  Speaker 1: Did he not say that Don Carlos had slipped him
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  Speaker 1: the information? In whispers while he was carrying his fainting
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  Speaker 1: wife to her room. Is it not the truth that
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  Speaker 1: Don Carlos did his best to hold me at his
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  Speaker 1: hacienda until the soldiers arrived, that I might be captured.
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  Speaker 1: Did not Don Carlos thus try to show his loyalty
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  Speaker 1: to the governor by the Saints? Ramon, you never told
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  Speaker 1: me as much, His excellency cried, they are traitors. The
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  Speaker 1: captain declared, stubbornly. What other evidence, senors, I asked, why
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  Speaker 1: when the soldiers arrived, you concealed yourself by some trick,
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  Speaker 1: the governor said, And presently Captain Ramon himself reached the scene,
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  Speaker 1: and while he was there, you crept from a closet,
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  Speaker 1: ran him through treacherously from behind, and made your escape.
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  Speaker 1: It is an evident fact that Don Carlos had hidden
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  Speaker 1: you in the closet by the Saints. Senior Zero swore,
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  Speaker 1: I had thought, Captain Ramond, that you were man enough
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  Speaker 1: to admit defeat, though I knew you for a scoundrel
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  Speaker 1: and other things. Tell the truth, that is the truth,
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  Speaker 1: Tell the truth, Senior Zero commanded, stepping closer to him
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  Speaker 1: and bringing up the pistol I came from that closet
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  Speaker 1: and spoke to you. I gave you time to draw
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  Speaker 1: blade and get on guard. We fence for fully ten minutes,
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  Speaker 1: did we not? I admit freely that for a moment
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  Speaker 1: you puzzled me, and then I solved your method of
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  Speaker 1: giving battle, and I I knew you were at my mercy.
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  Speaker 1: And then when I could have slain you easily, I
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  Speaker 1: but scratched your shoulder. Is not that the truth? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: As you hope to live? Captain Ramon licked his dry
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  Speaker 1: lips and could not meet the Governor's eyes, and Sir
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  Speaker 1: Senior Tzarro thundered, it is the truth. The Captain acknowledged. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: so I ran you through from behind a it is
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  Speaker 1: an insult to my blade to have it enter your body.
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  Speaker 1: You see, your excellency, what manner of man you have
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  Speaker 1: for commandante? Here? Is there more evidence? There is? The
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  Speaker 1: Governor said, when the Politos were guests at the house
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  Speaker 1: of Don Diego Vega, and Don Diego was away, Captain
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  Speaker 1: Ramon went to pay his respects and found you there
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  Speaker 1: alone with the Senorita. And that shows what that you
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  Speaker 1: are in league with the Politos, that they harbored you
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  Speaker 1: even in the house of don Diego, a loyal man.
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  Speaker 1: And when the captain discovered you there, the Senorita flung
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  Speaker 1: herself upon him and held him, delayed him rather until
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  Speaker 1: you made your escape through a window. Is not that enough?
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  Speaker 1: Senor Zaro bent forward, and his eyes seemed to burn
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  Speaker 1: through the mask and into those of Captain Ramon. So
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  Speaker 1: that is the tale, he told hey, The highwayman said,
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  Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, Captain Ramon is enamored of
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  Speaker 1: the Senorita. He went to the house, found her alone,
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  Speaker 1: forced his attentions upon her, even told her that she
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  Speaker 1: should not object, since her father was in the bad
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  Speaker 1: graces of the governor. He attempted to caress her, and
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  Speaker 1: she called for help. I responded, how did you happen
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  Speaker 1: to be there? I do not care to answer that,
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  Speaker 1: but I take my oath. The Senorita did not know
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  Speaker 1: of my presence. She called for aid, and I responded,
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  Speaker 1: I made this thing you call a commandante. Kneel before
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  Speaker 1: her and apologize, And then I took him to the
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  Speaker 1: door and kicked him out into the dust. And afterwards
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  Speaker 1: I visited him at the presidio and told him that
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  Speaker 1: he had given insult to a noble Senorita, it appears
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  Speaker 1: that you hold some love for her yourself, the Governor said,
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  Speaker 1: I do, your excellency, and am proud to admit it. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: you condemn her and her parents by that statement. You
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  Speaker 1: deny now that they are in league with you. I do.
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  Speaker 1: Her parents do not know of our love. This, Senorita
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  Speaker 1: is scarcely conventional. Signor Governor, Or, no another thought like that,
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  Speaker 1: and I spill your blood. Senor Zarro cried, I have
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  Speaker 1: told you what happened that night in the house of
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  Speaker 1: Don Diego Vega. Captain Ramond will testify that what I
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  Speaker 1: have said is the exact truth. Is it not, Commandante answer,
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  Speaker 1: it is the truth, the captain gulped, looking at the
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  Speaker 1: muzzle of the Highwoman's pistol. Then you have told me falsehood,
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  Speaker 1: and can no longer be an officer of mine. The
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  Speaker 1: Governor cried, It appears that this highwoman can do as
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  Speaker 1: he pleases with you. Ha. But I still believe that
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  Speaker 1: Don Carlos Pullito is a traitor and the members of
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  Speaker 1: his family, And it has availed you nothing, Signor Zorrow
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  Speaker 1: to play this little scene. My soldiers shall continue to
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  Speaker 1: pursue them and you, and before they are done, I'll
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  Speaker 1: have the politos dragged in the dirt, and I'll have
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  Speaker 1: you stretching a rope with your carcasse. Quite a bold speech, observe,
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  Speaker 1: Senor Zorrow. You set your soldiers a pretty task, your excellency,
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  Speaker 1: I rescued your three prisoners tonight, and they have escaped.
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  Speaker 1: They shall be retaken. Time alone will tell that. And
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  Speaker 1: now I have another duty to perform here, your excellency.
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  Speaker 1: You will take your chair to that far corner and
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  Speaker 1: sit there, and your host will sit beside you, and
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  Speaker 1: there you shall remain until I have finished. What do
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  Speaker 1: you mean to do? Obey me? Senorsorro cried, I have
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  Speaker 1: scant time for argument, even with a governor. He watched
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  Speaker 1: while the two chairs were placed, and the governor and
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  Speaker 1: his host had seated themselves, and then he stepped nearer.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Ramond, you insulted a pure and innocent girl. Commandante,
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  Speaker 1: he said, for that, you shall fight. Your scratched shoulder
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  Speaker 1: is healed now, and you wear your blade by your side.
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  Speaker 1: Such a man as you is not fit to breathe
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  Speaker 1: God's pure air. The country is better for your absence.
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  Speaker 1: On your feet, Signor, and on guard, Captain Ramond was
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  Speaker 1: white with rage. He knew that he was ruined. He
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  Speaker 1: had been forced to confess that he had lied. He
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  Speaker 1: had heard the Governor remove his rank, and this man
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  Speaker 1: before him had been the cause of it all. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: in his anger he could this Signor Czorro stretched this
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  Speaker 1: curs of Capistrano on the floor, with his life blood
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  Speaker 1: flowing away. Perhaps if he did that, his excellency would relent.
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  Speaker 1: He sprang from his chair and backward to the Governor.
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  Speaker 1: Unfasten my wrists, he cried, let me at this dog,
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  Speaker 1: you were as good as dead before you certainly are dead.
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  Speaker 1: After using that word, Senor Czarro said calmly, the Commandante's
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  Speaker 1: wrists were untied. He whipped out his blade, sprang forward
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  Speaker 1: with a cry, and launched himself in a furious attack
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  Speaker 1: upon the highwayman. Senor Czarro gave ground before this onslaught,
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  Speaker 1: and so obtained a position where the light from the
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  Speaker 1: candelerero did not bother his eyes. He was skilled with
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  Speaker 1: the blade, had had fenced for life many times, and
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  Speaker 1: he knew the danger in the attack of an angered
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  Speaker 1: man who did not fence according to the code. And
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  Speaker 1: he knew too that such anger is spent quickly, unless
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  Speaker 1: a fortunate thrust makes the possessor of it vic almost
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  Speaker 1: at once, And so he retreated step by step, guarding well,
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  Speaker 1: parrying vicious strokes, alert for an unexpected move. The Governor
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  Speaker 1: and his host were sitting in their corner, but bending
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  Speaker 1: forward and watching the combat run him through. Ramon, and
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  Speaker 1: I reinstate and promote you, his excellency, cried the Commandante.
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  Speaker 1: Thus was urged to do it. Senor Zorro found his
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  Speaker 1: opponent fighting much better than he had before. In Don
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Polito's house at the Hacienda, he found himself forced
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  Speaker 1: to fight out of a dangerous corner, and the pistol
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  Speaker 1: he held in his left hand to intimidate the Governor
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  Speaker 1: and his host bothered him. And suddenly he tossed it
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  Speaker 1: to the table and then swung around so that neither
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  Speaker 1: of the two men could dart from a corner and
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  Speaker 1: get it without running the chance of receiving a blade
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  Speaker 1: between the ribs. And there he stood his ground and fought.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Ramon could not force him to give way. Now
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  Speaker 1: his blade seemed to be a score. It darted in
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  Speaker 1: and out, trying to find a resting place in the
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  Speaker 1: captain's body, for Senor Zorrow was eager to have an
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  Speaker 1: end of this and be gone. He knew that the
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  Speaker 1: dawn was not far away, and he feared that some
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  Speaker 1: trooper might come to the house with a report for
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  Speaker 1: the governor. Fight insultier of girls, he cried, Fight, man
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  Speaker 1: who tells a falsehood to injure a noble family, Fight
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  Speaker 1: coward and poltroon. Now death stares you in the face,
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  Speaker 1: and soon you'll be claimed. Ha. I almost had you, then,
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  Speaker 1: fight cur Captain Ramon cursed in charge, but Senor Czarro
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  Speaker 1: received him and drove him back, and so held his position.
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  Speaker 1: The perspiration was standing out on the Captain's forehead and
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  Speaker 1: great globules. His breath was coming heavily from between his
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  Speaker 1: parted lips. His eyes were bright and bulging. Fight weakling,
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  Speaker 1: the highwayman taunted him. This time, I am not attacking
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  Speaker 1: from behind. If you have prayers to say, say them,
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  Speaker 1: for your time grows short. The ringing blades, the shifting
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  Speaker 1: feet on the floor, the heavy breathing of the combatants
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  Speaker 1: and of the two spectators of this life and death
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  Speaker 1: struggle were the only sounds in the room. His excellency
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  Speaker 1: sat far forward on his chair, his hands gripping the
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  Speaker 1: edges of it so that his knuckles were white. Kill me,
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  Speaker 1: this high woman, he shrieked, use your good skill, Ramon
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  Speaker 1: at him. Captain Ramon rushed again, calling in to play
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  Speaker 1: his last bit of strength, fencing with what skill he
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  Speaker 1: could command. His arms were as lead, his breath was fast.
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  Speaker 1: He thrust, He lunged and made a mistake of a
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  Speaker 1: fraction of an inch, like the tongue of a serpent.
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  Speaker 1: Signorsorro's blade shot in thrice. It darted forward and upon
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  Speaker 1: the fair brow of Ramon, just between the eyes there
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: flames suddenly a red, bloody letter Z, the mark of Czorro.
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  Speaker 1: The High Woman cried, you wear it forever now, Commandante
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Senorzorro's face became more His blade shot in again and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: came out dripping red. The Commandante gasped and slipped to
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  Speaker 1: the floor. You have slain him, the governor cried, you
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: have taken his life, rich ha I trust. So the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: thrust was through the heart, excellency, he never will insult
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: a senorita again. Senorzaro looked down at his fallen foe,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: regarded the Governor a moment, then wiped his blade on
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the sash that had bound the commandante's wrists. He returned
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the blade to its scabbard and picked up his pistol
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: from the table. My night's work is done, he said,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and you shall hang for it, His excellency cried, Perhaps
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: when you catch me, replied the Curse of Capistrano, bowing ceremoniously, Then,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: without glancing again at the twitching body of him who
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: had been Captain Ramond, he whirled through the door and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: was in the hall, and rushed through it to the
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  Speaker 1: patio and to his horse. And Chapter