He is a clever man and I am confident will help us. Now, I propose that we take advantage of the fact that we may occupy his room at night almost undisturbed to saw through the iron bars of the window."
"Father, your idea is an inspiration!" cried Guillermo, leaping up with eyes shining and hope filling him with electric energy. "But?" and here I noticed that the flame of his enthusiasm went suddenly dim. "How can we get the saws?"
"Wait," I said; "we will talk to Aragon first." When, therefore, we had opportunity we went to him and asked if it would be possible to saw the bars.
"Certainly," he said, "but only with saws of the very finest temper. It will be impossible to procure the kind we need in Chihuahua. Besides, the risk of attempting to do so would be too great. The nearest point at which they may be purchased is El Paso. In order that they may be smuggled into the penitentiary they must be very small. Two will be needed."
"You are right," I agreed. "We should not trust our fate to one, which might break. First, we shall need a person of resource and cleverness to go to El Paso, as all suspected passengers entering or leaving the city are searched. Next, some scheme must be devised to smuggle the saws into the penitentiary. Now, who shall be the messenger?"
I saw that Guillermo was staring at me as though some idea absorbed him. Then his face lighted up. "I believe I know the very person!" he exclaimed. "Come with me and I will introduce you to her husband."
Her husband  The person in whose hands we were to entrust our liberty and our lives was to be a woman, then? Doubting. I followed Guillermo upstairs, and, going with him to a room in a ward of the department for distinguished prisoners adjoining ours. I met General Alejundro de la Vega, a young man of dashing, intrepid appearance. He had been an officer under Villa, but for some unknown reason had incurred the danger of the suspicion of the commander and had been imprisoned. 