Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-05-12
ROCKVILLE. MORNING. MAY r. 1911
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AmesiGan Girl Insesfsrss With the
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( BY EVELYN MOORE
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BY EVELYN MOORE

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Every one said that Jack worthing-
ton should have been a man one
may infer from the name that Jack !
was 4 man. but this Ii mot 80, Her
nallie was Jacquelihe. When she was
1 little airi she wrote II IRc. but a.
aho grew older. nndinn t'1a1 egEfs one
else wrote It Jack, she fell into line.
There was nothing unfeminine about
Miss Worthington. TWAS 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 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
uuebI VI .tuCoC ACbOWb-eAAg A"hN
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 q victim to a
certain witchery 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.
Droubeloff had one Of those self sac
riflcing natures possessed by all Rus
sian revolutiOnlsts. Once converted he
conceived 1t to be his duty to go back to
Russia and contend for the cause. He
told JACK that though he loved her
and should always love her he must
relinquish her, for hencefOrth his life
and 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 sum
Client. 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
DroubeloR had not worked long In
his new field before he was arrested
and sent to Siberia.
with Droubeloff 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
WorthlngtOn heard of her lovers exile
to Siberin 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
ther 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
revoluiIonists in their behalf. One OF
these men Michael Zar0witz, who was
preparing 10 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, leaving only to chance those
matters which no one can foresee. She
believed that no prison IL strong
enough 10 hold person whose friends
are determined to get him out. She
was to plan Droubeloff's escape, and
Zarowitz was TO execute II. There
were to be no more persons taken into
the secret II 1t were possible for the
two to work II alone.
Fortunately Miss Worthingt0n pos
sessed q good constitution as well as
a strong will, for the journey from st.
Petersburg 10 Kara, where Droubeloff
was confined, is hard one. She re-
ceived her passports through the Amer
lean minister. whom she had known in
Washington and who exerted himself
in her behalf She Travelled ostensibly
as a correspondent for American news.
papers going to Kara to report on the
condition Of the prisons there.
When within hundred miles Of
Kara she began to make provision for
a flight by buying horses and sleighs,
which she left at convenient distances
along the route to be used az relays.
Those nearest Kara she directed to be
kept in readiness TO be turned out in a
few minutes notice.
Before reaching their destination the
separated. appointing a place
OF rendezvous. When they arrived
Miss worthington made It her FIRST