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Page Two...while Lady Zorro
is secretly following the next batch of captive peasants to the hidden
mine, Dr. Helm is busy with shaving and the metaphor of the cracked mirror
and a very nosy Dona Hidalgo, who has all the grace of a starved wolf,
slavering over new meat. |
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| "You don't look married,"
says Dona Hidalgo. |
(And you don't act married,
Senora)
"I wasn't aware being married
had a look," says our good doctor. |
Vera asks him why he's come
to California. |
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| "For adventure."
Or, more correctly, "adventcha." |
"You look like a man who has
adventure wherever he goes." Vera says in her best brazen hussy fashion. |
Don Hidalgo drives up in his
carriage, while Vera is offering the doctor a welcoming gift of wine. |
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"Isn't my wife beautiful?"
Don Hidalgo remarks, both boasting and warning.
(Vera is, after all, already
fluffing the sheets with Grisham.) |
"You should get one of your
own," Don Hidalgo adds whle Vera does her best "walking away" exhibition. |
Dr. Helm thinks it's a damn
shame they haven't invented penicillin yet. |
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| He finally wipes off the shaving
cream and gets ready to go to work. |
Tessa gets closer to the mines
and the enslaved peasants. |
The doctor is in.
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| Why are you always washing
your hands, Roberto?
Just a little thing called
the germ theory of disease, Luis. |
Or maybe it's just a subconscious
expiation for when I used to be a bad guy, Luis.
What do you mean, "used to
be"? |
I need to discuss a hypothetical
fever with you, Roberto.
I've got
two more patients to see, Luis.
They used to lick their wounds
clean before we had a doctor, Roberto. |
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| Yuccck!
Well, Roberto, what about this
fever?
Could you make a medicine? |
Maybe if you know of a hypothetical
apothecary? Shouldn't I see these men. Maybe they are overworked or exhausted. |
Maybe you should go see those
two patients now. Good day, Roberto. |
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Meanwhile, back at the
mines, Tessa has been shot by Grisham and backed to the sea cliff edge,
where they think she has no avenue of escape.
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Hmmmmm.
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Wrong.
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Next, Dr. Helm dresses
up real good, too.
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