Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-08-30
An International
Episode
American Girl Interferes With the
VIII of the Gear of Russia
BY EVELYN MOORE
Copyright by American Press Asso-
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 Jacqueline When she was
a little girl she wrote it JAG, but as
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 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 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, a perfect type OF the
sons of the north. belonging to the
higher class.
Alexis Droubelofr fell a victim to
certain witchery there was in Jack
Worthlngton Unfortunately for his
suit. she had read much of the efforts
of certain noble men and women in
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
rifcing natures possessed by all Rus
sian revolutionists. 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.
II anything was needed to attach the
girls heart irrevocably to the young
diplomat this stand was quite sutii-
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 q 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.
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 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 a 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 a luna
tic asylum.