Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1917-09-14 | Page 6 | Lydia Craven Surprises Her Father Making Love to Another Woman-There is Embarrassment, but Lydia Makes Two Real Friends

LYDIA CRAVEN SURPRISES HER FATHER MAKING LOVE 1 j TO ANOTHER WOMAN THERE IS EMBARRASSMENT, BUT LYDIA MAKES TWO REAL FRIENDS SYNOPSIS. A well-bred young Englishwoman, nervous and suspicious, sus-picious, finds when she boards the steamer Alsatia, bound from Liverpool Liv-erpool to New York, that her stateroom mate is Mrs. Amelia Beggar-staff, Beggar-staff, a fascinating, wealthy American widow of about sixty years. The girl introduces herself as Lucy Carteret and says she is going to America to meet her father. Lucy's behavior puzzles Mrs. Beggar-staff, Beggar-staff, who is vastly surprised to find her possessing a magnificent necklace which was stolen from a museum collection some time previously, pre-viously, and p asses the news on to her friend, Quoin, a private de- II I ! tective on board. Lucy, dressing in the dark in her stateroom, bears a mysterious conversation between two men just outside her window and recognizes one of them as Thaddeus Craven, her father. Amazed, she hurries up on deck, searches about and finds him making love to Mrs. Merrilees, wealthy, beautiful young widow and friend of Mrs. Beg-garstaff, Beg-garstaff, to whom Lucy has just confessed that she Is really Lydia Craven.