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standing beside her. “ Was that rock there? I

don’t remember it, but of course it must have
been.” She rose to her feet. Something fell glit­

tering on the sand. She picked it up. It was a
long, shining necklace of green stones.

“ This is very strange! ’ * said Lucy, thoughtfully*
“ But I suppose I had better take them home*

They must have been washed up from the sea and
caught to my gown some way. How pretty they

are 1 I wonder if they belonged to some one who
is drowned?”

She put the necklace into her pocket, and turned
to go home. She had gone but a little way when

she met Job Chippit.
"U n cle Job/' she said, “ I have found some­

thing on the sand. Do you think any one in town
has lost it, or that it was washed up by the sea ?’'

Job examined closely the emerald necklace.
“ This never belonged to anyone in our town,

Lucy,” he said; “ most likely the tide washed it
up in the last storm. Yours it is by all right if no

one comes to claim it; and be keerful of it, for I
expect it’s awful valuable. But what’s happened

to you?”