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Smiling in the face of death, Señor Zorro yet battled to keep from showing his genuine emotions, because of the presence of the _señorita_. But in that awful moment when he stood upon the plank, looking first at the evil faces of Barbados and Sanchez, and then at the agonized countenance of Señorita Lolita Pulido, he knew what torture meant.
It was not that Señor Zorro was afraid of death in itself――a thing that must come to every human being in the end. But his agony came from a knowledge of what he would leave behind when he took the plunge into the sea.