. Under three flags in Cuba; a personal account of the Cuban insurrection and Spanish-American war . is-oners, and asking a heavy sentence for doubt if the sentence would have been sustained;it was simply blackmail, and we at once formulatedplans to frustrate the scheme by rescuing the judge, thinking she would induce Bryson to paythe bribe, notified her of impending exile to Africa,but she entered into our plans of rescue with risk seemed too great for her to undertake, andfinally we had arranged to reach the window of herdormitory by a plank from a house oppo
. Under three flags in Cuba; a personal account of the Cuban insurrection and Spanish-American war . is-oners, and asking a heavy sentence for doubt if the sentence would have been sustained;it was simply blackmail, and we at once formulatedplans to frustrate the scheme by rescuing the judge, thinking she would induce Bryson to paythe bribe, notified her of impending exile to Africa,but she entered into our plans of rescue with risk seemed too great for her to undertake, andfinally we had arranged to reach the window of herdormitory by a plank from a house opposite, and wereonly awaiting the chance to secure her escape fromthe city, when a new complication arose. Bryson was ignominiously expelled by GeneralWeyler as an insurgent sympathizer, and at thisjuncture also the Official Gazette contained anotice of impending trial of the Isle of Pines casein furtherance of the game of blackmail. Americanpapers printed garbled accounts from Spanish sources,and it became necessary to publisli the true story inNew York. I next planned, with the assistance of 100. Copyright, by the Continental Publishi7ig Co. Jo ^cooA^u e-uruCiO Gc^Jt^ ^Tf^TZk) First Plans for Rescue a friend, to visit the prison one evening, and havingsent the sentinel from the main gate to purchasecigars as usual, to seize and gag the alcaide when hebrought the prisoner out into the sala, which wasbeyond the inner gates of the prison. The key ofthe outer postern lay on the officials desk, so MissCisneros could then have easily left the building withus; but the supreme difficulty was to secure herescape from Havana. It was arranged with a patri-otic engine-driver on the Matanzas Railroad to carryus out in disguise in a freight-car, and deposit usbeyond Regla, where the young general Arangurenhad promised to meet us by the barrier and cut away through. Once with the insurgent army shewould be comparatively safe, until her passage fromthe island could be arranged. This plan we sh
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