“Then years of happiness and peace.”
“Sí!”
“Yet, I am not sorry for what has happened,” said Señor Zorro. “It has brought us closer together. Peril knits hearts, señorita.”
“Once—when I thought that you were dead—”
Sergeant Gonzales observed a suspicious silence at this juncture. He raised his head and peered through the gloom around the mast. He could see nothing at all save the inky darkness there, but he heard a sound that needed no translation. It was the sound of a kiss.
“Meal mush and goat’s milk!” said the sergeant.
(The end.)
Transcriber’s Notes:
This six-part serialized novel is from six consecutive 1922 issues (May 6 to June 10, 1922) of the Argosy-AllStory Weekly magazine.