The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-02-12

Ou lltlu DtNltI Mlllc WITH lihi FhiA -hi
Smith, pushing an inkstand and pen towards
me. " Important memoranda should never,
where there is a possibility of avoiding it, be
written in pencil. Friction, thumbing, use
of any kind, often partially obliteracs them,
creating endless confusion and mistakes. Are
you ready Z"
Perfectly"
"Owen LLOYD, native of Wales, and, it
was understood, descended from a highy-re-
spectacle family. About five feet high but
/ need not describe his person over again.
Many years with us, first ms junior, then as
head clerk during which his conduct, as
regards the firm, was exemplary. A man of
Welding, irfcsoute mind-if indeed a per-
son can be said to really possess mind at
all who is always changing it for some other
person's-ncapable of saying No" to en-
barrassing, impoverishing rcqucsts-onc, in
short, MIR. Waters, of that numerous class
of individuals whom fools say are nobody's
enemies but their own, as if that were possi>
| Bile"
81 understand that; but | really do not
see how this bears upon"
/ "The mission YOU are directed TO under
take ? | think it does, as you will presently
see Three years ago, Owen Lloyd having
| lllNOlNcu nlulStil. III consequence W Nit ST.
rious defect of character have Indicated, in
large liabilities for pretended friends, left our
employment, and, 10 avoid Jail, fled, no
one could discover whittier. Edward Jones,
also native of the prncipality, whose de.
scription, MS well as that of his wife, YOU will
receive from the superintendent, was dis
| charged about seven years since from our
service for misconduct, and went, we under
| AGO., l., Il 1 10
possess a great influence over the mind of
his considerably younger countryman, Lloyd.
Jones and his wife were seen three evenings
since by one of our clerks near Temple Bar.
| am of opinion, Mr.. Waters" continued
Mr. Smith removing his spectaclcs, and
closing the note book from which he had
been reading, - that it is only the first step
in crime, or criminal imprudence, which fee
ble-minded men especially long hesitate or
boggle at; and 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 ac-
quainted with the premises in Brook street
as his fellow clcrk--the once honest, ductile
Owen Lloyd, is now common thief and
burglar
" Indeed :"
| L ca y upIc uinutc stdltn lcu 10 lnt
discovery. the day before yesterday, of d
pock book behind some book shelves in the
library. As no property had been taken
from that room-though the lock Of large
iron chest, containing coins and medals, had
been evidently tampered with-the search
there at first was not very rigorous That
pocket book-here it is-bclonged, know,
to Owen Llovd when il our service. See,
| Iura 1is t,,i.,,le et,,,,,.I ~ flo -
Might he not have inadvertently left it
there when with you?"
You will scarcely think so after reading
the date of the fye-pound note of the
Hampshire County Bank, which YOU will
find within the inner lining"
"The date is 1881.
Exactly. have also strong reason for
believing that Owen Lloyd is now, or has
been lately, residing in some part of Hamp-
shire"
" That is important"
This letter." continued Mr. Smith, and
then pausng for brief space in some EN-
barrassmcnt, he added, "ihc commissioner
informed me, Mr. Waters, that you were a
person upon whose good sense and discretion
as well as sagacity and courage, every con-
fidencc might be placed. / therefore feel
iN7a NiihNhtAl 'iitt O-h'l Nlac ShOhli III "'A
hitting you little behind the family screen,
would not willingly have bruited in the pub
lie carr
bowed and he presently proceeded.
"Owen Lloyd, should tell you, is mar
ried to a very amiabe, superior sort of wo-
man, and has one child, daughter, named
Caroline, an elegant, genieel-mannered,
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much attached, and she was consequently a
frequent visitor in Broom street. This al
ways felt was Tery imprudent; and the re-
sG!' was, that my son, Arthur Smiih-only
about two years her senior; she was Just
turned OF seventeen when her father was
compelled tp fly from his creditors-formcd
a silly, boyish attachment for her. They
have since, gather from this letter, which |
found yesterday in Arthurs drcssng-room,
carried on, at long intervals, a clandestine
correspondence, waiting for the advent OF
more propltious times-which. being inter
preted,' added Mr. Smith with a sardoJlic
sneer, means Of course my death and bur
ial."
" You are in possession, then, if Miss Car
oline Lloyd is living with her father, Of his
! precise place of abode :"
-NbN tNdrtiNs Ht correspondence l5' IL
seems, carried on without the knowledge OF
Owen Lloyd and the girl states in answer,
II should seem, to Arthur's inquiries, that
her father would never forgive her, if under
present circumstances, she disclosed his place
Of residenco-we can now very well under.
stand that--and she entreas Arthur not to
persist, at least for the present, in his at
temp,S TO discover her. My son, YOU must
] unfarsfanI n =, ..f =
tune Is concerned. is, thanks to the legacy
from an aunt on his mothers side, indepen-
dent of me-"
What post.mark docs the letter bear -
Charing- Cross Miss Lloyd states that it
will be posted in London by friend; that
friend being, / nothing doubt, her fathers
confederate, Jones. But to us the most i'm
porlant part Of the episte is the following
line My father met with a sad accident in
the forest some time ago, but is now quite
recovered The words in The forest have,
you see, been written over, but not SO en-
tlrely as to prevent their being, with a little
trouble, traced. Now, coupling this expres.
sion with the Hampshire bank-noie am of
opinion that Lloyd is concealed somewhere
in the New Forest"
shrewd guess, at all events"
iou no" perceive WHAT "elshly motives
have TO bring this man to justice. The
property carried oil care little comparative
| y about; but tho intercourse between the
glrl and my son must at any cost be termin-
ated"--
lie was interrupted by a clerk, who en-
tered to say that Mr. William Lloyd, the
gentleman who had advertised as " y. Y.
H." desired to speak to him. Mr. Smith
directed Mr.. Lloyd to be shown in; and
then, snatchng up the Police Gazette, {"