Evening journal., 1897-10-15

mile from the house to the pier. She
had a passport made out under an as
suined name. All the steamships an
chor out in the stream. Miss Cisneros
walked down from the house, and we
followed behind. She sauntered along
leisurely and once in a while turned
about to see If we were following. we
motioned her to go on. She grew more
confident as she went along, but we
could see that she was under a strain
She got on the launch, and we waited,
and when the launch returned from the
vessel and she was not in IL we knew
that the scheme had worked like
charm, that the game Of bluff had been
a success. We separated and were not
seen together afterward.
"The next day the whole town was
astir over the escape Of Miss Cisneros
A house to house search was begun
and would have kept up had not a tele-
gram from Minister Dupuy de LONE at
Washington informed Weyler that the
girl was on the high seas and expected
any day in New York. Then WeyleT
was mad. He threw the jailer, Jose
Quintana, into jail. Then the jaileI
told about my attempting to bribe him.
This, in connection with the surmise Of
De LONE. sort Of placed suspicion on
me- As Miss Cisneros left Saturday /
gave II out that I was going to take
steamer for Mexico. There was only
one steamer leaving Sunday, and that
was a Spanish steamer. / waited for
instructions from New York and had
almost made up my mind to start sun
day, instructions or no instructions.
My instructions came happily.
my passport was made out in the
name of Karl Decker. In order to take
the Panama Sunday night and0run the
gantlet 1 must get my passport vised
and stamped With the seal of the sec
retary of the captain general. l knew
| that my passport would never be
signed, and I learned that an order for
my arrest was determined on and that
I was to be arrested at o'clock Mon
day morning. I was In a bad pickle.
I got a glimpse of the writing Of SenoI
Carjoval, the secretary Of Weyler, and
copied It so that / had II down fine. !
determined TO go It without the seal.
AT the last moment I went TO the
wharf and took the launch for the
steamship The inspector looked at my
! passport and asked where the seal was
| I, assumed a nonchalant air as best
| cOuiO ana tolh AliA AAat A~NN- -
joval was at the Ingleterre hotel, and
having no seal, he signed his name to
a statement saying II was all right. The
inspector hesitated and showed the sig
nature TO another inspector, and ne
said all right, and ] was safe / as
sumed an injured. innocent air, and thai
bluff worked 40 that the chief Of police''
attention was not called to It,
"The Spanish authorities never
though. for a moment that I would
take a Spanish steamship. Nearly al
the Americans take the American line
They did not think to guard the Fana
ma and watch for me. They make al
arrests at about o'clock in the morn
ing for some reason or other. The,
were dead sure I would be in town oi
Monday, and they were fooled.
ION the voyage over the passenger
discussed the Cisneros escape. KEEP
aloof from them and heard their com
ments. At first they thought that tn
fugitive should be returned. but a
they neared New York they expresses
qualification over the escape of Mis-
Cisneros. because they dislike Weyle
so. Not until the press boat cam
alongside did they realize that l wa
in some way connected with the aitall
, and they took it as a great joke, -
It wish to say that had some appre
hension about Miss Cisneros carryin
out her part of the bluff, but all tn
way through she acted with frmnes
and courage that was remarkable. Sh
is the first woman. I believe, that ha
ever broken the Recojidas prison.