The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-11-10
An International
Episode
American Girl lnterferes With the
viii of the Car Of Russia
By EVELYN MOORE
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1911.
By EVELYN MOORE

Every one said that Jack Worthing.
ton should have been man. One
may infer from the name that Jack
was a man. but this is not so. Her
name was Jacqueline. When she was
little girl she wrote it JAG, but as
she grew older. finding that every one
else wrote 1t Jack. she fell into line.
There was nothing unfeminine about
Miss Worthington. 1t was the strength
Of purpose and the daring in her that
caused her friends to say that she
should have been born masculine. She
had woman's heart and mans
head and courage.
But to begin at the beginning. Jack
Worthington lived in Washington, be-
Ing the daughter of a retired admiral
in the United States navy. There are
attractive young men attached to the
foreign legations in Washington, who
frequently find wives among the girls
of the capital. The secretary of the
Russian embassy was one of the
finest Of these fellows-tall. hand
some. with blue eyes. light hair and
beard; indeed. perfect type of the
sons Of the north. belonging to the
higher class.
Alexis Droubeloff fell victim to a
certain wltchery there was in Jack
Worthington. Unfortunately for his
suit, she had read much Of the efforts
of certain noble men and women in
Russia to throw of the bureaucratic
yoke and had become an ardent SYM
pathizer with the Russian revolution.
While her heart went out to meet
that Of the secretary, she would not
give him any encouragement. since he
was In the service Of what she con-
sidered tyranny. The result of the
affair was that she converted him to
her way Of thinking.
Droubelon had one Of those self sac
rificing natures possessed by all Rus
sian revolutionists. Once converted he
conceived it to be his duty to go back to
Russia and contend for the cause. He
told Jack that though he loxed her
and should always love her he must
relinquish her. for henceforth his life
and liberty would be in constant jeop-
ardy.
II anything was needed to attach the
girls heart irrevocably to the young
diplomat this stand was quite suff1-
cient. But. since he had determined
to resign from the government service
and go to Russia for the purpose of
thwarting that governments will by
assisting to educate the people, the
lovers were obliged to part Jack kept
her affair secret from her father, her
mother and all the world. and when
the secretary of the Russian legation
resigned his position and sailed away
no one knew that he took her heart
with him.
Droubelof had not worked long in
his new field before he was arrested
and sent to Siberia.
With Droubeoff shut up for life in a
Russian prison in the frozen regions
Of the north. Jack Worthington a so.
ciety belle In the western hemisphere,
this story should by good rights come
to an end here. But the moment Jack
Worthington heard OF her lovers exile
to Siberia that strong will and abil-
ity to do which have been mentioned as
characteristic of her began to assert
themselves. She was now twenty-four
years old and possessed fortune In
her own right She informed her ia
Their and mother that she was going
abroad, and going alone. Had they
known her purpose. instead OF permit
ting her to go they would have more
likely planned to place her in luna
tic asylum.
Jacks sympathy with the Russian
revolution had been fostered by certain
Russian refugees she had met who had
depicted the condition Of the Russian
lower classes and the efforts Of the
revolutionists In their behalf. One of
these men. Michael Zarcwitz. who was
preparing to return to Russia. she took
into her confidence. and the two went
away together. Before Droubeloff left
Washington Jack had introduced the
two men. who had several conferences
Jacks object In going to Russia was
to free her lover. They formed def
mite plans, lea wing only to chance those
ualLCkS W 0lCu LO Ou0 CNu IOECSGG, NuP
believed that no prison IL strong
enough to hold person whose friends
are determined to get him out She
was to plan Droubelofrs escape. and
ZarOwitz was to execute 1t. There
were to he no more persons taken into
the secret :. 1t were possible for the
two to work 1t alone
Fortunately Miss Worthington pos.
sessed good constitution as well IA
a strong will. for the journey from st.
Petersburg to Kara. where Droubelo6
was confined. Is a hard one. She re-
ceived her passports through the Amer
Ican minister. whom she had known In
and who exerted himself
In her behalf. She travelled ostensibly
ns q correspondent for American new.
papers going to Kara to report ON thu.
condition Of the prisons there.
When within-ta hundred miles OF |
Kara she began to make provision for
4 flight by buying horses and sieiRhs