How the Further Adventures of Zorro Concludes

The next two, and final installments of the story cover the following events:

Senor Zorro has been thrown into the sea for a second time, this time off the bow of his friend's ship that were intending to rescue him. Both ships - pirate and caballero - saw Zorro walk the plank with the metal bar at his wrists and no one believes any man could survive such a plunge into the sea. All who have seen Zorro on board the caballero's ship are convinced they have seen a ghost. In the battle that follows, the pirates, completely against their normal practice, refuse to board the caballeros ship to fight, and instead head off running to escape the schooner that offers to fight them to the death. The pirates fear of the ghost renders them unwilling to fight, and they instead slip away form the schooner's view and eventually make to shore where their pirate camp is located, seven miles north of San Diego in a remote cove. The ghost has, on the other hand, inspired the caballeros to take pursuit, and they will later arrive to attach the pirates at their hide away.

In the meantime, Senor Zorro has clung to a piece of wood that was ripped off one of the ships when they collided in battle. This wooden spar keeps him afloat, and he slips into unconsciousness, carried wherever the waves may take him. He awakes to find himself on the shore of the Channel coast, being tended by a Native man who has rescued him from the sea. This rescuer pledges loyalty to Senor Zorro as thanks for Zorro's assistance given to his poor father in the past. Zorro recovers enough to ride to the pirates encampment, engages in the battle the caballeros have begun, and to everyone's amazement the singing ghost who swoops down into battle on horseback is indeed a live a living Zorro, come back from the dead miraculously. When the battle reaches a stalemate, Zorro decided to ride to the Presidio in San Diego to inform the soldiers that the native man knows the location of the pirate's hide away, and to get soldiers to help him rescue the senorita from their cruel grasp.

At the pirate's encampment, made of poorly built adobe huts and sheds, the Senorita is held captive while the man who has ordered her abduction makes his way to retrieve her. Who is this mystery man? Why does he want her? When he arrives, Lolita finds it is no other than Capitan Ramon, head of the garrison at Los Angles, who has sought to court her in the past .. but whom she finds dishonorable and repulsive. His actions in having her kidnapped do nothing to change her already vehement contempt for the man. But he lures her into considering marrying him because he has captured the caballeros whose ship landed to rescue her, and he is threatening to kill them.

Captain Ramon has a dastardly plan - one that will put him in good favor with Governor, who he then will ask to force senorita Pulido to agree to marry him. He intends to ride to the presidio, call the troops to the pirate's hideout to attack them, and make himself a hero among the Californios. To the pirates, on the other hand, he tells them he will bring the troops into an ambush so the pirates may kill them and then have free reign to sack the pueblo of San Diego. Unfortunately, when Senor Zorro arrives to seek help from the presidio soldiers, Captain Ramon has also arrived and his orders are obeyed, including having Zorro locked up. The native man helps Zorro to escape, and Zorro then follows the soldiers back to the pirate's cove, hoping to rescue his senorita and be of assistance to his fellow caballeros. When he arrives, he sees his fellow caballeros have been caught and jailed, and that the senorita is being preyed upon by Captain Ramon. He finds his best friend, Don Audre, tied to a stake with burning debris at his feet.

In the battle that follows, and the senoritas clever passage of a weapon to Zorro right when he needs it most, the caballeros are victorious, the traitorous acts of Captain Ramon are revealed to both the pirates and the soldiers, and he is captured. In the end Fray Felipe recaptures his sacred goblet, Don Audre Ruiz is rescued from the burning stake and reveals Captain Ramon as a traitor before the troops, and the senorita is freed safely. To close the story, Senor Zorro challenges Captain Ramon to a duel …

From the Further Adventures of Zorro, installment six of six, June 10, 1922

" On guard, senor!" Zorro warned again. "I do not like to pollute my blade with your blood, yet must it be done! On guard, renegade! Must I cut down a man who will not defend himself?"

Senor Zorro advanced a step. Captain Ramon, his face white, started to raise his sword. He did not believe, could not force himself to believe, that he would be a victor. Yet he could do his best!

The blades touched. And in the next instant Senor Zorro had sprung backward, and a chorus of cries had come from those in the ring.

For Barbados, not watched as carefully as he should have been watched, had taken vengeance himself. He thrust one of his guards aside, snatched a dagger from the belt of another. His arm went up, came forward, the dagger whistled through the air. And it lodged in Captain Ramon's back, the point in his heart.

"That for a traitor!" Barbados cried. "Since I must be hanged, let me settle accounts first! Senor Zorro, you are a man! I, who have fought you, say it! Your blade is too true, senor, to be buried in a foul carcass such as that!" ……

As the ship sails away, taking the wounded caballeros, Sergeant Gonzales, Fray Felipe, and the two betrothed back to Los Angeles in the moonlight, Senor Zorro and Senorita Lolita Pulido plan their future together …

"The sword of Zorro! Let us hope that it has a long rest," the senorita said.

"A long rest!" Senor Zorro echoed. "As soon as we are at Reina de Los Angeles we'll be wed by Fray Felipe."

"Si!" she said softly.

"Then years of happiness and peace."

"Si."

……

But the legend of Zorro did not end there ...it has lived on for decades with new movies, television shows, and products celebrating the further exploits of this Robin Hood of the West, the brave and courageous, Zorro.