Zorro (novel) medallion as being the same as that of de Leon's. Escalante invites Diego to join La Justicia and they begin to train for his initiation test where Diego is tested physically in his fighting against members of La Justicia. Diego passes the test and joins La Justicia and takes the name Zorro meaning 'fox'. Diego learns that Amalia has been arrested and is being held prisoner. Diego, dressed as Zorro, sneaks into the palace to convince Le Chavalier Duchamp, Napoleon's emissary to Spain, to release the hostages which he does under threat of his daughter's life. Moncada and Diego continue
Zorro However, Fairbanks's sequel, "Don Q, Son of Zorro" (1925), was more based on the 1919 novel "Don Q's Love Story" by the mother-son duo Kate Prichard and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard than "The Further Adventures". Thus McCulley received no credit on the film. At first, production of new Zorro stories proceeded at irregular intervals: the third novel, "Zorro Rides Again" (not to be confused with the 1937 theatrical serial) was published in 1931, nine years after the second one. Then, between 1932 and 1941, McCulley wrote four short stories and two serialized novels. Zorro stories were published much more frequently between 1944