The age-herald., 1897-10-13


 sumption that it had not, and so determ- ]. i1sd to carry out our plans to the letter. | 4 lot of cheap second hand furnfture l was purchased in one of the outlying suburbs and was placed in our house. 1 and that night when we went there we wers surrounded by our own household
 lares and penates. A huge porron decor
 ated the tinujero, flanlsed on either side by a bottle of jensvra and a big bundle
 of brevas. Our sideboard was set with
 plates and other crockery, and chest
 of drawers, a folding table and pair
 of canvas folding cots had been sent up.
 We dragged out the tables and set ! forth candles until it gleamed like a
 banquet board. Then we threw open the window so that the neighbors might
 look upon the newcomers in the neigh bcrhood and become acquainted with them, and, finally, fell into a game of poker around the table that came near destroying all our strongly cemented frient7ship.
 Until Il o'clock the game went on. A
 brace of guards, in their striking blue
 and. red uniforms loungsd up to the
 windows to nste whether we played for
 wind or centens, and. firding the game as innocent as a day in May wandered off with Wheir swords clanl1ing about their llsess. At Il o'clock we shut the window and barred out the soft, bright moonlight that flooded the room with it's silvery glory ard then turned in for a couple of hours patient waiting.
 It was not easy work, as tha stone floor we lay upon was as hand as the heart of Weyler and twice as cold. The bur1S1e of bTevas went up in smoke as we lay there talking in whispers, and finally the time for action arrived. The inmates of No. were again awake, ard, far from being impressed by our house. hold furniture, seemed to fear Us eve n more than ths night before. It was dread of the strangers in the alley that kerit them quiet and made Miss Cis- neros' release possible.
 They sat up talking this night during the entire time we were working on the
 roof, and were still sputtering Spanish
 when we left them. This time the fairies seemed to be working with us, and everything movsd es smoothly as clocllwork. The ladder was raised to the roof without a sound and as we batter d about in our stocking feet spell of en- ehantment seemed to fall upon the city.
 Far off in the haze of moonlight a I jangiing chime of bells seemed changed .by some magic into sweetest music, and the ugly tile roofs and queer bits of old NeSrish architecture, jutting angularly ohere and there, seemed transformed by sonie magician's touch into palaces.
 Again the light, frail ladder was thrown across from the roof of the iazotea. The trying and perflouS journey was made as quickly as possible. The
 lsdtier was withdrawn and we were again in front of the window behind which Miss Cisneros was imprisoned. E This tfnDs there was no delay. Our outfit consisted of pair of Stilson wrenclhes, and, putting one above and one below the cut made the night before, we wrenched the bar asumdsr with one snap. In second I had caught the broken bar and had pulled it out enough fer a purchase, and then, Tipping my knee under, I drew 1t up till it was horizontal with the roof. I then stopped, slipped the bar across my shoulder, and, grasping the crossbar above, straighten- ed myself, bringing the bar far up in the air A secon later I had twisted nAysSGiI lIVUO d uluSt V aDONS tiiC NiOoS- bar, ard, reaching down, caught Miss Cisneros by the shoulders and pulled her through the opening.
 Could the women of the United States have seen the smile on that poor girl s face as she realized that at last, after fifteen months of prison life, she was at liberty, they would have felt happi- ness as great almost as hers. That one feeting smile of ineffable happiness was reward enough for beth of us there at the window for all our work and risk. To get our little heroine safely away was now the question. The trip across the creaking, swaying ladder was made
 by Miss Cisneros with the grace and ease of a fraghten:d fawn. The astute detectives who found a knotted rope on the roof stated that the ends had been held by two man on either roof, afford ing Miss Cisneros a hand rail to guide l her across.
 Nothing of the sort was done. The
 knotbed rope was to be used in case of emergency, in case our return to the roof eff Mo- 1 should be cut off, forcing us to descend from some other part Of the building. Miss Cisneros needed no hand rail in her state of joy and exhilaration. No time was lost in getting away from
 the building. We quickly made our way downstairs, donned our shoes and made off. The naigHbors heard the clang or the heavy doors closing, then> the sharp,
 quick rattl- of carriage dashing reck- lessly off over the cobbles, and then
 quiet fell upon the neighborhood of the Recojidas. The beautiful girl prisoner was at lib=rty and would never again feel the suffocation of its crowdfng walls. There was but one bad break in the | arrangements we made on leaving. Her nando, taking alarm at sound in the l Recojidas, had drawn his revolver. Then | he placed it on the parapet of the house, | laying it down to assist Miss Cisneros across. He forgot it. and it has been found there, to the great indignation of | the police.
 In The news of Evangelina's escape was | carrisd to Palmerola at the palace short | ly after o'clock by Don Jose Quintana,