Jill Panvini from the Guy Williams Friend's list sent out this wonderful picture of Guy Williams as Miles Hendon from the Disney version of Mark Twain's story, "The Prince and the Pauper." I was showing this picture to my friend Kathy Green, who is the moderator of the Juan Diego Botto list one night, when I got this interesting idea to do a crossover with the New World Zorro characters. Miles and Tom sail to California, and while they are there, they encounter Zorro.

Because Miles and Tom are centuries apart from the New World setting which takes place in 1820, this is obviously a "what if" story. So just for "technical" purposes I made them a little older than they were, in Twain's story. So despite the long stretch in time and distance, (in Twain's story, Miles and Tom are from England.) I hope you enjoy this story.

Disclaimer: The characters Miles Hendon and Tom Canty, do not belong to me. They came out of the imagination of one of the most famous writers of the eighteenth century (1835-1910), Mark Twain, otherwise known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote The Prince and the Pauper, upon which my story is based. Other stories which Mark Twain wrote which you may know, include, "The Innocents Abroad" (1869), "Roughing It" (1872), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876), "A Tramp Abroad" (1880), "Life On The Mississippi" (1883), "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), and "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court" (1889). Other works include, "Pudd'nhead Wilson" (1894), and "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" (1896).

The characters Don Alejandro, Don Diego/Zorro, Victoria, Felipe, Ignacio DeSoto, Sgt. Mendoza, and others in that show do not belong to me either. They belong to New World productions, and to John Gertz Jr. The characters of Don Diego/Zorro and Don Alejandro belong to pulp fiction writer, Johnston McCulley, who created Zorro in his pulp fiction story, "The Curse of Capistrano" which was later changed to "The Mark of Zorro."

I hope you enjoy reading my story. I will be adding more chapters, so keep checking back. This is another "Work In Progress," so I can't say how and when it will end, but thank you for reading this, all the same.

Sincerely,

Nancy J. Smith