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Updated: May 29, 2025
Look here, I'm willing to apologise for having tried to shoot you, but you know you exasperated me by taunting me about not valuing Miss Rostrevor." "What a charming piece of condescension on your part!" sneered Cojuelo. "If Don Carlos de Ruiz lied to the Señorita Rostrevor, I shall shoot him. That is another promise, señorita.
"Those who are in the secret vastly enjoy the way in which I hoodwink the authorities. They enjoy the joke of my offer of a reward for the capture of El Diablo Cojuelo, dead or alive, and my periodical 'searches' for the outlaw." "But what is the idea of it all?" inquired Myra.
"Is there, then, some resemblance between Don Carlos and the brigand Cojuelo?" asked the Commandante. Momentarily nonplussed, Myra shook her head. "I cannot tell," she answered. "El Diablo Cojuelo always wore a cowl which disguised him." "Yes, that's right, sir," broke in Tony Standish from the background. "We never saw the blighter without his cowl.
"I am El Diablo Cojuelo," repeated Don Carlos. "I am a dual personality. At my castle and at Court I am Don Carlos de Ruiz, Governor of a Province and an administrator of the laws. Here in my mountain eyrie I am Cojuelo, the outlaw, acknowledging no laws save those I make myself." "I still do not understand," remarked Myra, with perplexity in her blue eyes.
I understand that you may have considered the implication an insult, and now I can only apologise for troubling you and devote my energies to hunting down El Diablo Cojuelo. Can you offer us any assistance in locating his lair in the mountains?" "You need trouble yourself no longer about El Diablo Cojuelo, señor," replied Don Carlos. "He is dead." "Dead?" "Yes, he is dead.
I told Don Carlos I am willing to pay you ten thousand pounds that's something like a million pesetas in your money to set Miss Rostrevor and me free. Think of it, man a million, and " "You have not answered my question, Señor Standish," interrupted Cojuelo curtly.
They've been questioning me, and I'm afraid I didn't tell them the truth. Now they're questioning Don Carlos. From what I can make of it, someone has suggested that Don Carlos is in league with the brigand Cojuelo." "Who suggested that?" asked Myra, with a convulsive start.
"In that case, Myra, you will remain here as the captive of El Diablo Cojuelo, and the outlaw will try to teach you the meaning of love and passion, teach you to respond to the call of your heart if you have a heart. You shall have your first lesson now, my sweet captive."
"Before the coming of El Diablo Cojuelo there were men in this province who had enriched themselves at the cost of the peasants, cheated farmers out of their land, and made them little better than serfs," he explained quietly and deliberately. "The law could not touch these vampires, parasites, money-lenders and profiteers.
"I don't know, but the officials wanted to know if I saw Don Carlos at Cojuelo's place, and how I got away," Standish answered. "I told a lot of lies, and said that Cojuelo let me go when I promised to pay a ransom of fifty thousand pounds. Myra, you won't give me away and show me up? I'll shoot myself if you do.
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