While all seemed so dark and helpless to me in my prison, events were shaping towards my delivery.

For weeks, a brave, strong man had been watching the jail, seeking some weak spot, trying to find some way to rescue me.

The year is 1897, and Evangelinea Cisneros, a teenage girl from a well-off family,

has been in prison in Cuba for over a year.

She doesn't know anything about the welfare of her family, and she's horrified by the conditions. Initially,

she lives in what she calls a large cage with other women. Hundreds of the most terrible

women that could be dreamed of. Eventually, she's taken to a more private room, which she shares with

other women accused of a similar crime to her.

Treason against Spanish colonial rule.

Month after month, she sits and looks out the window, awaiting her fate.

The only windows to be seen from the alley were about 35 feet from the ground and were protected by massive iron bars.

Down below, a man from Washington, D.C., looks up at the very window

from which Evangelina looks out.

For weeks, he and a small group of men have been casing the jailhouse in hopes of breaking her free.

They managed to smuggle in a note, asking her for ideas to break out.

She writes back,

My plan is the following, to escape by the roof.

Her escape plan included drugging the women in her cell.

So as to set to sleep my companions.

The men made a few tweaks to her plan.

They run the house next to the jail.

And a couple of days later, covered by the darkness of night,

...