The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1911-04-07
An International
Episode
American Girl Interferes With the
Will of the Gar of Russia
BY EVELYN MOORE
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1871.

citation. 1871.
Every one said that Jack Worthing
ton should have been man. One
may infer from the name that Jack
was man. but this is not So Her
name was Jacqueliue. When she was
Il little girl she wrote 1t JAG, but as
she grew older, finding that every one
else wrote 1t Jack, she fell into line
There was nothing unfemlnine about
Miss Worthingtou Ii 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 womans heart and mans
head and courage.
But to begin at the beginning, Jack
Worthlngton 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. perfect type of the
sons of the north, belonging to the
higher class.
Alexis Droubeloff fell n victim TO a
certain witchery there was In Jack
Worthington. Unfortunately for his
suit, she had read much Of the efforts
o t.l,, ,nI.1 .,,I Ia
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
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
rificing natures possessed by all Rus
sian revolutionists. Once converted he
conceived II 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
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 suffl-
| 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 We're obliged to part. Jack kept
her affair Il 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
Droubeloff had not worked long In
his new field before he was arrested
and sent to Siberia.
With Droubeloff shut up for life in Il
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 eom'
to an end here. But the moment Jacl
Worthlngton heard of her lovers eXil'
to Siberia that strong will and abil
ity to do which have been mentioned n.
characteristic OF her began to asser
themselves. She was now twenty-foul
years old and possessed n 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
revolutionlsts In their behalf One OF
these men, Michael ZarowltZ, 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, leaving only TO chance those
matters which no one can foresee She
believed that no prison il strong
enough TO hold n person whose friends
are determined 10 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 if 1t were possible for the
two to work II alone.
Fortunately Miss Worthington pos
sessed II good constitution as well as
strong will for the journey from st
Petersburg TO Kara. where Droubelon
was confined, Is a hard one. She re.
ceived her passports through the Amer
lean minister, whom she had known In
Washington and who cxerted himself
in her behalf She Travelled ostensbly
as n 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 Mt convenient distances
along the route 10 be used as relays
Those nearest Kara she directed to be
kept in readiness 10 he turned out In =
few minutes notice.
Before reaching their destination the
travellers separated. appointing n place
Of rendezvous. When they arrived
Miss Worthington made II her FIRST