Further Adventures - Horse Pull

"Help!" she cried. "Diego! Zorro!"

"Ha! Call to the fiend, but this time he does not come!" Captain Ramón exclaimed.

But Señor Zorro had heard her shriek. And the smoke lifted, and he and Don Audre Ruiz saw the commandante on the horse, the señorita held before him. Captain Ramon saw them, too, and kicked frantically at the animal's ribs. The frightened horse plunged away through the smoke.

Señor Zorro was more maniac than sane man as he dashed forward to follow. The fight swerved toward him. He sprang up and grasped a soldier, pulled him out of the saddle, sprang into the saddle himself, and gave chase.

Out of the clouds of smoke he rode, to see the commandante and his prisoner a short distance to the left. In the smoke Captain Ramón had lost his bearings for a moment.


- The Further Adventures of Zorro, Chapter 31