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WEDNESDAY.....'.': ..MARCH 19,1884.
, BOTH8IDE8.
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A man In his carriage was riding along-', '
A gaily-dressed wife 'by bis side; .
In satin and laces she looked like a queen
And he like king in his pride. t
. A wood-eawyer stood on the street asthey passed;
The C4.nriajce and couple he eyed,
: And saidj'as he worked with a saw on a loir,
."I wish I was rich arid could ride."
The man in the carriage remarked to his wife,
"One thing: I wonld give If I could
I'd give my wealth for the strength and the health
Of the man. Who is rawing the wood."
A pretty-yeung maid, with a bundle of work,
Whose face, as the morning, was fair,
Went tripping along with a smile of deligliK,
While humming love-breathing air.
. She-looked on the carriage;; the lady she saw
Arrayed in apparel so fine,
And said, in whisper, " I wish from my heart
Those satins anft laces were mine."
: The lady looked out on the maid with her work,
So fair in her calico dress, .
And said, "I'd relinquish position and wealth,
Her beauty and youth to posaess."
Thus it is in the world; whatever our lot,
, Our minds and our time we employ
' fn longing and sighing for what we have not,
; Unthankful for what we enjoy.
Warren's. Diary of a Detective.
The following advertisement appeared
in several of.the London journals in the
year 1883:- "If Owen Lloyd, t native of
Wales, and who, it is believed, resided for
many years in London, as clerk ina large
mereantile establishment, will forward his
present address to X. Y. Z., Post Office,
St. Martin's-le-Grand, to be called for, he
! will hear of something greatly to his
advantage."
My attention! had been attracted to this
notice by its very frequent appearance) in
the journal which I was hiefiy in !the
habit f reading; i and, from my profes
sional habits o thinking, 1 had set it
down in my own mind as a trap for some
offender against the principles of ineum
and tuum, whose presence in a criminal
court was very earnestly desired. I was
confirmed in this conjecture by observing
that, in despair of Owen Lloyd's volun
tary disclosure of his retreat, a reward of
fifty guineas, payable by a respectable
solicitor of Lothbury, was ultimately of
fered to any person who .would furnish, X..
Y. Z. witk the missing man's, address.
"An old bird," I mentally exclaimed,
on perusing this paragraph, " and not to
be caught witk chaff ; that is evident."
Still more to excite my curiosity, and at
the same time bring the matter within the
scope of my own particular functions, I
found on taking up the Police Gazette, a
reward of thirty guineas offered for the
apprehension of Owen Lloyd, whose per
son and manners were minutely described.
"The pursuit grows hot," thought I,
throwing down the paper and hastening
to attend a summons just brought me
from the superintendent; "and if Owen
Lloyd is still within the four seas, his
chance of escape seems but a poor one."
On waiting on the superintendent, I was
directed to put myself in immediate per
sonal communication with a Mr. Smith,
the head of an eminent wholesale house in
the city.
"In the city!"
"Yes; but your business .with Mr.
Smith is relative to the extensive robbery
at his West-end residence a week or two
ago. The necessary warrants for the ap
prehension of the suspected parties have
been, I understand, obtained, and on your
return will, together with
memoranda, be placed in your hands."
I at once proceeded tonj destination,
and on my arrival, was immediately
ushered into a dingy back room, where I
was desired to wait until Mr. Smith, who
was just then busily engaged, could speak
to me. Casting my eyes over a table, near
which the clerk had placed me a chair, I
perceived a newspaper and the Police
Gazette, in both of which the advertise
ment for the discovery of Owen Lloyd
were strongly underlined. "Oh, ho,"
thought I; "Mr. Smith, then, is the X.
Y. Z., who is so extremely anxious to re
new his acquaintance with Mr. Owen
Lloyd ; and I am the honored individual
selected to bring about the desired inter
view. Well, it is in my new vocation
one which can scarcely be dispensed with,
it seems, in this busy, scheming life if
ours."
Mr. SnTith did not keep me waiting
long. He seemed a hard, shrewd, bus
iness man, whose still wiry frame, brisk,
active gait and manner, and clear, decisive
eye, indicated though the snows of more
than sixty winters had passed over his
head a yet vigorous life,, of which the
morning and the noon had been spent in
the successful pursuit of wealth and its
accompaniment social consideration and
influence.. - .
"You have, I suppose, read the adver
tisements marked on these papers?"
"I have, and of course conclude that
you, sir, are X. Y. Z."
"Of course,. conclusions," rejoined Mr.
Smith, with a quite perceptible sneer,
"are usually very silly ones: in this im-j
stance especially so. My name, you ought
to be aware, is Smith : X. Y. Z.", whoever
he may be, I expect in a few minutest la
just seventeen minutes," added the exact
man of business; "for I, by letter, ap
pointed him to meet me here at one o'clock
precisely. My motive, in seeking an in
terview with him, it is proper I should
tell you, is the probability that he, like
myself, is a sufferer by Owen Llovd, and
may not therefore object to defra'v a fair,
share of the cost likely to be incurred In
unkennelling the delinquent, and prosecu
ting him to conviction ; or. which would
be far better, he may be in possession pf
information that will enable us to obtain
completely the clue I already almost
grasp. But we must be cautions; X. Y.
Z. may be a relative or friend of Lloyd's,
and in that case to possess him of our
plans would answer no purpose but to af
ford him an opportunity of baffling them.
Thus much premised, I had better at once
proceed to read over to you a few particu
lars I have jotted down, which, you will
perceive, throw light and color over the
suspicions I have been within these few
days compelled to entertain. You are
doubtless acquainted with the full parti
culars of-the robbery at my residence.
Brook street, last Thursday fortnight?"
"Yes; especially the report of" the of
ficers, that the crime must have been com
mitted by persons familiar with the prem
ises and the general habits of the family."
"Precisely Now have you your memorandum-book,
ready f"--:
"Quite so." '
" P had write with ink,'" said
Mr. Smith, pushing an inkstand and pens
towards, me. -''Important memoranda
should never, 1 where there is a possibility
.of Miing- iibe Written in pencil
riction . thumbing, use of anv kind,
often partially obliterate, them, creathig
rSy U81n aDd mktkes- Are yo!
"Perfectly."
it 'wlen Liyd' Bative f Wales, and.
it was understood, descended fromT.
highly respectable family there XhnJt
feet eight -"but .SfdLrttSS
person over again. Many years with us,
first as junior, then as head! clerk ; during
which his conduct, as regards the firm,
was exemplary. A man of yielding, ir
resolute mind -if indeed a person can be
said to really possess a mind at all who is
always changing it for some other person's
incapable of saying 'No' to embarrass
ing, impoverishing requests, one, in short,
Mr. Waters, of that numerous class of in
dividuals whom fools say are nobody's
enemies but their own, as if that were
possible "
"I understand; but I really do not see
how this bears upon "
" The mission you are directed to un
dertake! I think it does, as you will
presently seer Three years ago Owen
Lloyd having involved himself, in cbn
Kequenceof the serious defect of character
I have indicated, in large liabilities for
pretended friends, left our employment,
and to avoid jail, fld, no one could dis
cover whither. Edward Jones, also a
native of the principality,-whose descrip
tion, as well as that of his wife, you will
receive from the superintendent, was dis
charged aboutiseven years since from our
service for misconduct, and went, we un-
! derstood, to America. He always ap
I peared to possess great influence over the
j mind' of his considerably younger coun
! tryman Lloyd. Jones and his wife were
I seen three evenings since by one of our
clerks near Temple Bar. 1 am of opinion,
Mr. Waters," continued Mr. Smith,
removing his spectacles and closing
the. note-book, from which he had
been reading, "that it is only the first
step in crime or criminal imprudence,
which feeble-minded men especially long
hesitate or boggle at; and I now more
than suspect that, pressed by poverty, and
very possibly yielding to the persuasions'
and example of Jones, who," by the way,
was as well acquainted with the premises
in Brook street as his fellow-clerk the
once honest, ductile Owen Lloyd, is now
a common thief and burglar."
"Indeed!"
"Yes. A more minute search led to
the discovery, the day before yesterday,
of a pocket-book behind some book
shelves in the library. As no property
had been taken from that room though
the lock of a large iron chest, containing
coins and medals, had been evidently
tampered with the search there was not
at first very rigorous. The pocket-book
. here it is belonged, I know, to j Owen
Lloyd when in our service. See, here are
; his initials stamped on the cover."
' "Might he not have inadvertently left
it there when with you?" " ,
" You will-scarcely think so after read
ing the date' of the five-pound note of the
Hampshire County Bank, which you will
find within the inner lining."
!'The date is 1831."
"ExactlyTI have also strong reason
for believing Owen Lloyd is now, or has
been lately, residing in " some part of
Hampshire."
"That is important."
"This letter," continued Mr. Smith,
and then pausing for a brief space in some
embarrassment, he added "The commis
sioner informed me, Mr, Waters, that you
were a person upon whose good sense and
discretion, as well as sagacity and courage,
every confidence might be placed. I
therefore feel less difficulty than I other
wise should in admitting you a little be
hind the family screen, and entering with
you upon matters one would not willingly
have bruited to the public ear."
1 bowea, and he presently proceeded.
"Owen Llovd. I hnnll tell ia
: married to a very amiable, superior sort of ;
i woman, ana has one child, a daughter
I named Caroline, an elegant, gentle-man-I
nered, beautiful girl I admit, to whom my
! wife was much attached, and she wascon-
sequently a frequent visitor in Brook
j street. This I always felt was very im-
prudent; and the result was, that my son
Arthur Smith only about two years her
senior; she was just turned of seventeen
j when her father was compelled to fly from
i his creditors formed a silly, boyish at
; tachment for her. They have since, I
j gather from this letter, which I found yes
i terday in Arthur's dressing-room, carried
j on, at long intervals, a clandestine cor
! respondence, waiting for the advent of
: more propitious temes which, being in
; preted, added Mr. Smith, with a sardonic
j sneer, "means of course my death and
! burial."
" ou are m possession, then, if Miss!
i Caroline Lloyd is living with her father,
of his precise place of abode?"
j " Not exactly. The correspondence is, I
it seems, carried on without the knowledge !
of Owen Lloyd; and the girl states, 7n !
j answer, it should seem, to Arthur's in- 1
; quiries, that her father would never for
j give her if, under present circumstances,
she disclosed his place of residence we i
j can now very well understand that and j
j she entreats Arthur not to persist, at least !
! for the present, in his attempts to discover j
i mri. jxj sun, juu must unaerstana, is
j now of age, and so far as fortune is con
! cerncd, is, thanks to a legacy from an
aunt on his mother's side, independent of
me."
! "What post-mark does the letter bear?"
Channg-Cross. Miss Lloyd states that
it will lie posted in London by a friend :
that friend being, I nothing doubt, her
father's confederate, Jones. But to us the
most important part of the epistle is the
following line: 'My father met with a
sad accident in the forest some time ago,
but is now quite recovered.' The words
jn the forest have, you see, been written
over, but not so entirely as to prevent
their being, with a little trouble, traced.
Now, coupling this expression with the
Hampshire bank-note, I am of opinion
that Lloyd is concealed somewhere in the
New Forest."
A shrewd guess, at all events."
."You now perceive what mighty mo
tives I have to bring this man to justice.
The property carried off I care little coml
paratively about; but the intercourse be
tween the girl and my son must at anv
cost be terminated "
, He was interrupted by a clerk, who en
tered to say that Mr.: William Lloyd, the
gentleman who had advertised as " X Y
Z.," desired to speak to him. Mr. Smith
directed Mr. Lloyd to be shown in ; and
then, snatching up the Police Gazette and
thrusting it into one of the table drawers
said in a- low voice, but marked emphasis',
A relative, no doubt, by the name: be
silent, and be watchful."
A minute afterwards Mr. Lloyd was
ushered into the room. He was a thin
emaciated, and apparently wrrow-stricken
man, and on the wintry side of middle
age, but of mild, courteous, gentlemanly
speech and manners. He was evidently
nervous and agitated, and after a word or
two of customary salutation, said hastily,
"I gatter from this note, sir, that you
can afford me tidings of my long-lost
brother Owen : where is he?" He looked
eagerly round the apartment, gazed with
curious earnestness in my face, and then
again turned with tremulous anxiety to
Mr. Smith. "Is he dead? Prav (In nrtt
! keep me in suspense."
I . down, sir," said Mr. Smith, point
ing to a chair. "Your brother, Owen
Lloyd, was for many years a clerk in this
establishment
"Was was!" interrupted Mr. Lloyd
, ft.-Mjr lui-reuseu agitation; "not
j now, then he has left you?"
"For upward of three years A few
I days ago prav do not intornmt m r
obtained intelligence of him, which, with
T . 3 ou mav possibly be able
to afford, will
this gentleman," pointing to me "to
discover his present residence "
I could not stand the look which Mr.
Lloyd fixed upon me, and turned ht?iw
away to gaze out of the window, as if at
tracted 4y the. of a squabble be-
vween Wo draymen, which fortunately
broke out at the moment in the narrow.
choked-up street.5 ' "For what - purpose,
sir, are you instituting this eager search
after my brother? It cannot be that no,
no he has left you, you ' say, more than
three years : besides, the bare supposition
is as wicked as absurd." ' , v
"The truth is, Mr. Lloyd," rejoined
Mr. Smith, after a few moments' re
flection, 4 'there is great danger that my
son may disadvantageously connect him
self with your brother's family may, in
fact, marry his daughter Caroline. Now
I could easily convince Owen "
"Caroline !" interjected Mr. Lloyd, with
a tremulous accent, and hi9 dim eyes suf
fused with tears "Caroline! ay, truly,
her daughter would be named Caroline."
An instant after, he added, drawing him
self up with an air of pride and some
sternness: "Caroline Lloyd, sir, is per
son who, by birth, and, I doubt not, char
acter and attainments, is a fitting match
forthe son of the proudest merchant of
this proud city."
"Very likely," rejoined Mr. Smith,
drily ; ' but you must excuse me for say
ing that, r as regards my son, it is one
which I will at any cost prevent."
"How am I to know," observed Mr.
Lloyd, whole glance of pride had quickly
passed away, "that you are dealing fairly
and candidly with me in the matter?"
In reply to this home-thrust, Mr. Smith
placed the letter, addressed by Miss Lloyd
to his sonr in the hands of the questioner,
at the same time explaining how he had
obtained it.
Mr. Lloyd's hands trembled, and his
tears fell fast over the letter as he hurriedly
perused it; It seemed by his broken, in
voluntary ejaculations, that old thoughts
and memories were deeply stirred within
him. "Poor girl; so young, so gentle
and so sorely tried! Her mother's very
turn of thought and phrase. Owen, too,,
artless, honorable, just as he was ever,
except when the dupe of knaves and vil
lains." He seemed buried in thought 'for some
time after the perusal of the letter; and
Mr. Smith, whose cue it was to avoid
exciting suspicion by too great eagerness
of speech, was growing fidgety. At
length, suddenly looking up, he said in a
dejected tone, "If this is all you have as
certained, ;we seem as far off as ever. I
can afford you no help."
"I am not sure of that," replied Mr.
Smith. " Let us look calmly at this mat
ter. Your brother is evidently not living
in London, and that accounts for your ad
vertisements not being answered. "
"Truly.;'
"If you look at the letter attentively,
you will perceive that three important
words, 'in the forest," have been partially
erased."
"Yes, it is indeed so: but what "
"Now, is there no particular locality in
the country to which your brother would
be likely to betake himself in preference
to another? Gentlemen of fancy and sen
timent," added Mr. Smith, " usually fall
back, I have heard, upon some favorite
haunt of early days when pressed by ad
versity." "
"It is natural they should," replied Mr.
Lloyd, heedless of the sneer. "I have
felt that longing for old haunts and old
faces in intense force, even when I was
what the world calls prospering in strange
lands ; and how much more But no ; he
he would not return to Wales to Caermar
then to be looked down upon by thqse
amongst whom our family for so manv
generations stood equal with the highest.
Besides, I have personally sought him
there in vain."
"But his wife she is not a native -of
the principality?"
"fo Ah!" I remember. The forest !
It maePfee so ! Caroline Hey worth, whom
we first met in the Isle of Wight, is a
native of Beaulieu, a village in the New
Forest, Hampshire. A small, very small
property there, bequeathed by an uncle, be
longed to her, and perhaps" has not been
disposed of. How came I not to think of
this before? 1 will set out at once and
yet pressing business requires my stay
here for a day or two. "
" This gentleman, Mr. Waters, can pro
ceed to Beaulieu immediately."
"That must do then. You will call on
me, Mr. Waters here is my address le
fore you leave town. Thank you. And
God bless you, sir," he added, suddenly
seizing Mr. Smith's hand, "for the light
you have thrown upon this wearying, and
I feared, hopeless search. You "need not
be so anxious, sir, to send u special mes
senger to release your son from his promise
of marriage to my niece. None of us, be
assured, will be desirous of forcing her
upon a reluctant family." He then bowed
and withdrew.
"Mr. Waters." said Mr. Smith, with a
good deal of sternness, as soon as we were
alone, "I expect, that no sentimental
crotchet win prevent your doing vour
duty in this matref?"
"What right," I answered with some
heat, " have you. sir, to make such ah in
sinuation?" "Because I perceived by your manner
that you disapproved of my questioning
Mr. Lloyd as to the likeliest mode of se
curing his brother."
"My manner but interpreted my
thoughts: still, sir, I know what belongs
to my duty and shall perform it."
"Enough; I have nothing more to say."
I drew on my gloves, took up my hat,
and was leaving the room,, when Mr.
Smith exclaimed, " Stay one moment, Mr.
Waters: you see that my great object is to
break off the connection between my son
and Miss Lloyd?"
"I do."
"I am not anxious, you will rememler,
to press the the prosecution if, by a frank
written confession of his guilt, Owen Lloyd
places an insuperable bar between his child
and mine. You understand?"
" Perfectly. But permit me to observe,
that the duty you just now hinted I might
hesitate to perform will not permit me to
be a party to any such transaction. Good
day." I waited on Mr. William Lloyd soon af
terwards, and listened with painful inter
est to the brief history which he, with
childlike simplicity, narrated of his own
and his brother's fortunes. It was a sad,
oft-told tale. They, had been early left
orphans; and, deprived of judicious guid
ance, had run (William more especially) a
wild career of dissipation, till all was
gone. Just before the crash came, they
had both fallen in love with the same wo
man, Caroline Hey worth, who had pre
ferred the meeker, (more gentle-hearted
Owen, to his elder brother. They parted
in anger. William obtained a situation as
bailiff and overseer of an estate in Jamaica,
where, by many years of toil, good for
tune and economy, he at length ruined his
health and restored his fortunes, and was
now returning to die rich; in his native
country, and, as he had till jan hour before
feared, unlamented and untended save by
hirelings. I promised to write immedi
ately I had seen his brother; and with a
sorrowful heart took leave of the vainly
rejoicihg, prematurely-aged man."
I arrived at Southampton by the night
coach the railway was but just begun, I
remember and was informed that the best
mode of reaching Beaulieu Bewley, they
pronounced it was by crossing the South
ampton river to the village of Hythe,
which was but a few miles distance
from Beaulieu. As soon as I had break
fasted, I hastened to the quay, and
was soon speeding across the tranquil
waters in one of the sharp-stemmed wher
ries which plied constantly between the
xnores. My attention was soon arrested
by two figures in the stern of the boa at
man and woman. A slight examination of
their features sufficed to convince me that
they were Jojies and his wife. They evi
dently entertained no suspicion of pursuit
and as I heatd them tell the boatman they
were going on to Bewley, I determined for
the present hot to disturb their fancied
security. It was fortunate I did so. As
soon as we had landed, they passed into a
mean-looking dwelling, which, from some
nets, and a boat under repair, in a -small
vard in front of it, I concluded to be a
fisherman's. As no vehicle eWld be readily
procured I determined on walking on, and
easily reached Beaulieu, which is charm
ingly situated just within the skirts of the
New Forest, about twelve o'clock. After
partaking of a slight repast at the princi
pal inn of the place I forget its name, but
it was, I remember, within a stone's
throw of: the celebrated Beaulieu Abbey
ruins I easily contrived, by a few careless,
indirect questions, to elicit all the infor
mation I required of the loquacious waiting-maid.
Mr. Lloyd, who seemed to bear
an excellent character, lived, I was in
formed, at a cottage about half a mile dis
tant from the inn, and chiefly supported
himself as a measurer of timber beech and
ash : a small stock (the oak was reserved
for government purposes) he usually kept
on hand. Miss Caroline, the girl said, did
beautiful fancy-work; and a group of
flowers painted by her, as natural as life,
was framed and glazed in the bar, if I
would like to see it. Upon the right
track, sure enough I Mr. Lloyd, there
could be no longer a doubt, had uncon
sciously betrayed his unfortunate, guilty
brother into the hands, .of justice, and I,
an agent of the iron law, was already upon
the threshold of his hiding-place ! " I felt
no pleasure at the success of the scheme.
To have i bravely and honestly stood up
against an adverse fate for. so many years,
only to fall into crime just as fortune had
grown weary of persecuting him, and a
long-estranged brother had returned , to
raise him and his to their former position
in society, was melancholy indeed ! .And
the young woman, too, whose letter breathed
so pure, so gentle, so patient a spirit I it
would not bear thinking about and I reso
lutely strove to look upon the affair as one
of e very-day routine. It would not do,
however; and I was about to quit the room
in no very enviable frame of mind, when
my boat companions, Mr. and Mrs. Jones,
entered and seated themselves at one of
the tables. The apartment was rather a
large one, and as I was seated in the corner
of a box at some distance from the entrance,
they did not at first observe me ; and sev
eral" words caught my ear which awakened
a strong desire to hear more. That I might
do so, I instantly adopted a very common,
but not "the less often very successful, de
vice. As scon as the new-comers perceived
me, their whispered colloquy stopped ab
ruptly ; and after a minute or so, the man
said, looking hard at me, " Good -day, sir;
you have had rather a long walk ;" and he
glanced at my dusty boots.
" Sir,'.' I replied, inclosing my ear with
my left hand in the manner of a natural
ear-trumpet, "did you speak?"
"A dusty walk," he rejoined in a voice
that might have been heard in a hurricane
or, across Fleet street. x
"One o'clock !" I replied, pulling out my
watch. "No; it wants a quarter 'et."
"Deaf as the Monument," said Jones to
his companion. "All right."
The suspended dialogue was but par
tially resumed.
" Do you think," said the woman, after
the lapse of about five minutes, "do you
think Owen and his family will go with
us? I hope not."
" Not he. I only asked him just for the
say-so of the thing. He is too chicken
hearted for that, or for anything else' that
requires pluck."
Finishing the spirits and water they had
ordered, they soon afterwards went out. I
followed.
As soon as we had gone about a hundred
paces from the house, I said, ''Pray can
you tell me which is Mr. Lloyd the beech
merchant's house?"
" Yes," replied the man, taking hold of
my arm, and hallooing into my ear with
power sufficient to really deafen one for
life: " we are going there to dine."
I nodded comprehension, and ou we
journeyed. We were met at the door by
Owen Lloyd himself a man in whose
i-ouuieiiauce guiieiessness, even to sim
plicity, seemed stamped by nature's own
true hand. So much, thought I, for the
reliance to be placed on physiognomy ! "I
have brought you a customer," says Mr.
Jones, " but he is as deaf as a stone." I
was courteously invited in by signs, and
with much hallooing and shouting, it was
finally settled that after dinner I should
look over Mr. Lloyd's stock of wood. Din
ner had just been placed on the table by
Mis. Lloyd and her daughter. A still
very comely interesting woman was Mrs.
Lloyd, though time and sorrow had long
since set their unmistakable seals upon her.
Her daughter was, I thought, one of the
most charming, graceful young women I
had ever seen, spite of the'tinge of sadness
which dwelt upon her sweet face, deepen
ing its interest if it somewhat diminished
its beauty. My heart ached to think of
the misery the announcement -of my errand
must presently bring on such gentle be
ingsinnocent, I felt confident, even of
the knowledge of the crime that had been
committed. I dreaded to begin not,
heaven knows, from any fear of the men
who, compared with me, were poor, feeble
creatures, and I could easily have mastered
half-a-dozen such; but the females that
young girl especially how encounter their
despair? I mutely declined dinner, but
accepted a glass of ale, and sat down until
I could muster sufficient resolution for the
performance of my task ; for I felt this was
an opportunity for quietly effecting the
capture of both the suspected criminals
which must not be neglected.
Dinner was just over when Mrs. Lloyd
said, "Oh, Mr. Jones, have you seen any
thing of my husband '8 pocket-book? It
was on a shelf in the room where you
slept not the last time, but when you
were here about three weeks ago. We can
find it nowhere, and I thought vou might
possibly have taken it by mistakV"
"A black, common-looking thing?" said
Jones.
"Yes."
"I did take it by mistake. I found it
it in one of my parcels and put it in my
pocket, intending, of course, to return it
when I came back; but I remember, whejn
wanting to open a lock of which I had lost
the key, taking it out to see if it contained
a pencil-case which I thought might answer
the purpose, and finding none, tossing it
away in a pet, I could not afterwards find
it."
"Then it is lost?"
"Yes; but what of that? There was
nothing in it." t
"You are mistaken," rejoined Owen,
"there was a five-pound country note in
it, and the' loss will What is the mat
ter, friend?"
I had sprung to my feet with uncontrol
lable emotion ; Mr. Lloyd's observation re
called me to myself, and I sat down again,
muttering something about a sudden pain
in the side. :.
"Oh, if that's the case," said Jones, "I'll
make it up willingly. I am pretty rich,
you know, just now."
" We shall be obliged to you," said Mrs.
Lloyd; "its loss would be a sad blow to
us."
"How came you to send those heavy
boxes here, Jones ?" said Owen Lloyd".
"Would it not have been better to have
sent them direct to Portsmouth, where the
vessel calls?"
" I had not quite made up my mind to
return to America then f und I knew they
would be safer here than anywhere else."
" When do you mean to take them away?
We are so badly off for room, that thev
terribly hamper us."
This evening about nine o'clock. I
have hired a smack at Hythe to take us,
bag and baggage, down the river to meet
the liner which calls off Portsmouth" to
morrow. I wish we could persuade you
to go with us."
"ank you, Jones," replied Owen, in
a dejected tone, " I have very little to hope
for. here, still my heart clings to the old
country."
! I had heard enough; -and hastily rising,
intimated a wish to look at the lumber at
once. Mr. Lloyd immediately rose, and
4 -Jones and his wife left the cottage to return
to Hythe at the same time that we did. I
marked a few1 pieces 6f timbef, and prom
ising to send for them in the morning,
hastened away.
A mountain seemed remqved from off my
breapt ; I felt as if I had achieved a great
personal deliverance. Truly a wonderful
interposition of Providence, I thought, that
has so signally averted the consequences
Hkely to have resulted from the thought
less imprudence of", Owen Lloyd, in allow
ing his house to be made, however inno
cently, a receptacle for stolen goods, at the
solicitation, too, of a man whose character
he knew to be none of the purest. He had
a narrow escape,, and might with perfect
truth exclaim
"There is a divinity that shapes 'our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will."
The warrants of which I was the bearer
the London police authorities had taken
care to get endorsed by a magistrate of
the county of Hampshire, who happened
to be in London, so that I found no diffi
culty in arranging effectually for the cap
ture and safe custody of Jones and his
assistants when he came to fetch his booty.
I had just returned to the Beaulieu Inn
after completing my -.'rrangements, when
a carriage drove furiously up to the door,
and who should, to my utter astonishment,
alight, but Mr. William Lloyd and Messrs.
Smith, father and son. I hastened out,
and briefly enjoining caution and silence,
begged them to step with me into a pri
vate 'room. The agitation of Mr. Lloyd
and Mr. Arthur Smith was extreme, but
Mr. Smith appeared cold and impassive as
ever. I soon ascertained that Mr. Arthur
Smith, by his mother's assistance, I suspect,
had early penetrated his father's schemes
and secrets, and hat,; in consequence,
caused Mr. William Lloyd to be watched
home, with whom, immediately after I
left, he had a long conference. Later iu
the evening an eclairciuemeht with the
father took place; and after a long and
stormy discussion, it was resolved that all
three should the next morning post down
to Beaulieu, and act as circumstances might
suggest. My story was soon told. It was
received, of course, with unlounded joy
by the brother and lover; and even through
the father's apparent indifference I could
perceive that his refusal to participate in
the general joy would not be of long dura
tion. The large fortune which Mr. Wil
liam Lloyd intimated his intention to be
stow "upon his niece was a new and soften
ing element in the affair.
Mr. Smith, senior, ordered his dinner;
and Mr. Lloyd and Arthur Smith but why
need I attempt to relate what they did? I
only know that when, a long time after-wards.-I
ventured to look in at Mr. Owen
Lloyd's cottage, all the five inmates
brother, uncle, lover, niece, and wife
were talking, laughing, weeping, smiling,
like distracted creatures, and seemed ut
terly incapable of reasonable discourse.
An hour after that, as I stood scre?ned by
a belt of forest-trees in wait for Mr. Jones
and company, I noticed, as they all strolled
past me in the clear moonlight, that the
tears, the agitation had passed away, leav
ing only smiles and grateful joy on the
glad faces ro lately clouded by anxiety and
sorrow. A mighty change in so brief a
space !
Mr. Jones arrived with his cart and help
ers in due time. A man who sometinres
assisted in the timber-yard Was deputed,
j witn an apology for the absence of Mr.
Lloyd, to deliver the goods. The lKxes,
I full of plate and other valuables, were soon
noisteii m, and the cart moved off. I let
it proceed about a mile, and then, with the
help I had placed in readiness, easily se
cured the astounded burglar nnd his assis
tants; and early the next morning Jones
w as on Ids road to London, lie was tried
at the ensuing Old-Bailey sessions, convict
ed, and transportctMor life ; and the dis
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the warrant against Owen Lloyd was de
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will easily understand, than I should have
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