Putnam patriot., 1911-04-28
An International Episode
 American Girl Interferes With the
 Will of the Czar of Russia
By EVELYN MOORE
Copyright by American Press Asso-
 ciation, 1911.

d may infer from the name that Jack was a man. but this is not so. Her name was Jacqueline. When she was a little girl she wrote it Jac. but as she grew older, finding that every one else wrote it Jack, she fell into line. There was nothing unfeminine about Miss Worthington. It 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 a woman's heart and a mans head and courage.
 But to begin at the beginning. Jack worthington lived in Washington, be ing the daughter of 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. a perfect type of the sons of the north, belonging to the < higher class.
 Alexis Droubeloff fell victim to a S Worthington. Unfortunately for his suit she had read much of the efforts of certain noble men and women in z Russia to throw off the bureaucratic yoke and had become an ardent sym pathiZer with the Russian revolution. & While her heart went out to meet Z 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.
 |# Droubeloff had one of those self sac rifcing 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 toId Jack that though he loved her and should always love her he must relinquish her, for henceforth his life sand liberty would be in constant jeop- ardy.
 # If anything was needed to attach the girls heart irrevocably to the young diplomat this stand was quite suffi- sscient But, since he had determined 10 resign from the government service and go to Russia for the purpose of fhwarting that governments will by Resisting to educate the people, the lovers were obliged to part. Jack kept her affair a secret from her father, her mother and all the world, and when fhe secretary of the Russian legation Resigned his position and sailed away no one knew that he took her heart with him.
 ga Droubeloff had not worked long in his new field before be was arrested and sent to Siberia.
 With Droubeloff shut up for life in Russian prison in the frozen regions of the north. Jack Worthington a so- <iety belle in the western hemisphere, this story should by good rights come 10 an end here. But the moment Jack Northington heard of her lovers exile to Siberia that strong will and abil- 1ty to do which have been mentioned as Characteristic of her began to assert
 Themselves. She was now twenty-four Years old and possessed a fortune in
 &er own right She informed her fla
 her and mother that she was going < 6broad, and going alone. Had they
 nown her purpose, instead of permit Ing her to go they would have more Mely planned to place her in luna Gc asylum.
 Backs sympathy with the Russian G1voution had been fostered by certain unssian refugees she had met who had &picted the condition of the Russian 1ower classes and the efforts of the Hovoutionists in their behalf. One of lAese men, Michael ZarowitZ, who was preparing to return to Russia, she took Into her confidence. and the two went oway together Before Droubeloff left Washington Jack had introduced the tWo men, who had several conferences.
 Packs object in going to Russia was CO free her lover They formed def nite plans, leaving only to chance those matters which no one can foresee. She believed that no prison is strong enough to hold a person whose friends are determined to get him out, She vas to plan Droubelof's escape, and zarowitz was to execute it. There Nere to be no more persons taken into the secret if it were possible for the tWo to work it alone.
 Fortunately Miss Worthington pos eeesed good constitution as well as 4etrong will, for the journey from St. fetersburg to Kara, where Droubelof W4s confined, is hard one. She re ee5ved her passports through the Amer 3 1can minister. whom she had known in 2 Washington and who eXerted himself n Der behalf She travelled ostensibly o4a correspondent for American news p4pers going to Kara to report on the &Qndition of the prisons there.
 When within a hundred miles of k4fa she began to make provision for light by buying horses and sleighs, N1lch she left at convenient distances o1eng the route to be used as relays. 4&Cse nearest Kara she directed to be N40t in readiness to be turned out in M minutes notice.
 Nefore reaching their destination the # M4velers separated, appointing a place 2 o<rendezvolss. When they arrived
 lm Warrington made it her first 0Q1ness to find a convenient abode, " c< she had no mind to detract from <o chances of accomplishing her ob-
 oef by making haste. She found $ 41vpping place in the family of keep = of one of the prisons and, having 0of<led herself, presented to the gov | eknor her papers embodying instruc- ! XX-Tz fnl. faciIitioc L n yiNaQ her lQ