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Show I MRS. BEGGARSTAFF DISCOVERS THAT LUCY CARTERET OWNS A EEAUTIFUL NECKLACE WHICH HAD j BEEN STOLEN FROM A VALUABLE COL- 'j LECTION SOME TIME BEFORE J tl A beautiful, well-bred English-woman, nervous and suspicious, finds when she boards the steamer Alsatia, bound from Liverpool for New York, that her stateroom mate is Mrs. Amelia Beggarstaff, a fnscinatiii" wealthy American widow of about sixty years. The girl S'iys her name is Lucv Carteret and that she is going to America to meet her father, who lias lived there many years. .Something about the girl's manner makes the widow wonder what's the trouble. She I Is much surprised to had Lucy possesses a magnificent necklace winch j the girl said her father had given her for Christmas. |