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However, in Patricia Coyote's extensively researched collection of oral histories
collected from various dance hall queens, Gold Diggers of the Gold Fields, Lady
Sasha Destin seems to substantiate Mrs. Lomax's story. Lady Destin, who retired
with her husband, the former Inspector Malcom Destin, ancestral laird of Clan
Destin (of the Hebridean sept), to their estates in Ontario, credits both her turn in
fortune and her many philanthropic works to an anonymous benefactor still
(according to her) living among Indians in the Brooks Range in Alaska.
The birth and death records that might have substantiated Mrs. Lomax's allegations
were unfortunately lost in the fire that swept Dawson City in 1898, and generally
this particular set of events is attributed to the famous novelist's overactive
imagination and Celtic tendency to embellish even such romantic adventures as
gold hunting in the Klondike.
However, it is interesting to note that one of Jack London's most successful works,
White Fang, was written from the viewpoint of a wolf, displaying the insight into
the lupine mind that Mrs. Lomax would have traced directly to London's
conversations with the late Assistant Consul Frank Blake, alias Drake. Mr. Blake
was reported as missing from his post when his superior, the American consul,
returned to Dawson after a prolonged visit to Washington, D.C.
Also of interest concerning the alleged existence of the mythical Vasily Vladovitch
Bledinoff and of his contact with the people of Dawson is the fact that it was, in fact,
a Yukoner, the much-decorated Joe Boyle, who took it upon himself during World
War I to singlehandedly save Romania. Thus, it appears that if Bledinoff did exist
outside of Mrs. Lomax's mind and was not actually immortal, he was at least long-
and well-remembered by his former neighbors.
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