Zorro Fights A Friend - Before Draw

Zorro pulled the door open as he finished speaking, sprang out into the patio and pulled the door shut after him. And he came face to face with Sergeant Manuel Garcia.

"So!" Garcia cried. "At last I have you!"

Zorro held the pistol. There was no time for either to draw a blade. The burly sergeant stepped to one side and tried to get his pistol out of his sash. He would risk death, it appeared, in an exchange of shots.

But Zorro wished nothing like that. He sprang forward, and the barrel of his heavy pistol crashed against the side of Sergeant Garcia's head and made him reel. Zorro sprang away just as Capitán Ortega jerked the door of the room open.

"Help here! Help! Zorro is here!" Ortega shouted in a stentorian voice. "To me, troopers!"


- Zorro Fights A Friend