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Early on a morning soon after, a white flag with a large, black Z is flying on the cuartel's pole usually reserved for the Spanish flag.  Monastario is livid, and when two peons laugh at the flag and the soldier's inept attempts to remove it, Monastario's wrath reaches new heights.  He orders the peons jailed but changes his mind and tells them they must repair the stable roof or receive whiplashes and time in jail. Monastatio comes us with a new plan to capture Zorro.  He tells Sergeant Garcia that he will receive a dishonorable discharge.  Then, Monastario's plan goes on, since Garcia will no longer be subject to Monastario's command, he can ask to be taken into Zorro's confidence.  Once Zorro confides in him, Garcia will report back to the captain.

Monastario publicly strips Garcia of his rank and office in the army.  Garcia goes to the tavern bemoaning his fate.  Diego helps him get a job at the inn.  Garcia tells one and all that he wants to befriend Zorro. Later that night, Zorro comes to visit Garcia.  He tells Garcia that he wants to test his sincerity and makes plans to meet the sergeant at a specified place the next day.  According to Monastario's plan, as soon as Zorro leaves, Garcia rushes across the plaza to tell his capitan that tomorrow they will capture Zorro.  Monastario is incredulous, but he makes hasty plans to follow Garcia to the appointed place.

Zorro discusses the disgraced Garcia's desire to be of aid to the "bandit".

The next morning Zorro thoughtfully provides the Commandante's own carriage for the peons to haul pitch from the tar pits to the cuartel so that they can fix the roof.  He has already left a trail of notes that have Monastario, Garcia, and a troop of soldiers chasing all over the countryside in search of him.

The capitan is not amused by Diego's sense of humor and orders his soldiers into the cuartel to clean the tar from their uniforms and themselves.

Once the peons are gone from the tar pit, Zorro cuts shrubs to mask its appearance.  He waits until Monastario and the soldiers have given up trying to find him and are heading back to the cuartel.  Once they spot him, he leads them on a merry chase.  He skirts the tar pit himself, but the unwitting soldier - and a livid Monastario - fall into it. ~*~

Monastario is increasingly convinced that getting rid of Zorro is essential.  The question is how?  Every plan, every scheme, has failed.  As Capitan Monastario ponders the matter, an opportunity presents itself. While in the tavern one evening, two men become involved in a duel over a dancer.  One man is killed, and Monastario has the other - an excellent swordsman - arrested.  It doesn't take the capitan very long to come up with a new, insidious plan.  He tells the swordsman, Martinez, what he wants him to do.

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