The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-09-16
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RETURNED AFTER THIRTY YEARS.
Coming Hack 10 His Wife After Wander
I. Ing All over tho Earth,

( CHICAGO, September l5.--Thers Is, great
rejoicing in No. 10 South Ann stree, where
tho Widow Lloyd and her family resided
for many years. Thirty years ugo her hus.
band and u II year old son started for tho
California gold mines, hoping to make a
speedy fortune and rejoin their family.
Three months ailerwari Horace, the son,
ragged md half starved, reached home,
saying Tint the train he and his father
started with was attacked by Indians and
he alone escaped. Alter lie had grown
easier in his mind he changed his story
enough to leave Mrs. Lloyd ground to hope
tint her husband might yet :bo alive.
She cherished this hope for seven
years, deciding not TO marry again until
that time had expired. Meanwhile she
started n millinery shop, prospered, invest
cd her earnings and became independent.
At tho end Of seven years sho married a
poor man. The marriage, however, WAS
anything but happy. Mrs Lloyd, to pro.
vide against the possibility Of being sought
Tor her wealth, had transferred her proper.
ty in trust for her daughter: As soon rs
her second husband ascertained this fact
his protested, love turned to bitterness.
Peace fled from the family and was restored
only after the merciiul law of Illinois
had dissolved tho matrimonial bond which
bound them together. -r-r+ir-, \ f74T-
Resuming her name, MBIloyd she also
resumed her business aud prosecuted IL
with diligence, until very recently she
found herself able to retire withaan easy
competence. Her son, TlioracepH. Lloyd,
lived with her. "a day or two agorNlrs..
Lloyd answered n ring. nj the front door
bell. n tall, handsome man, with hair
white rs snow, wrinkled. but still erect,
and wearing n patch over his left eye, asked
to see Horace II. Lloytk ~ ~ G,AE
"Tell me your business and I'll tell YOU
II you can see him, IT said Mrs. Lloyd.
~ AM Bartholomew Frederick "Lloyd," I"
began eman, but Als.s Lloyd wanted 10
hear no more. The wife recognized her
husband and the sons Joy was extravagant.
The old man, weak from heart sickness,
was placed ienderly in the best bed, and
the sisters and their children were sum.
monell to participate in the ,rejoicing.:ti Isi,
BartholomcwFrederick Lloyd had no valid
excuse to offer for his loug neglect The
truth about the parting with his son was
the high.spirited boy ran away from the
train because his. father, in a fit OF temper,
threw sword ut him that nearly impaled
him. The boy ran to the trackless plain
until night set In and then lnade his way
buck to Fort Laramie, already one hundred
miles behind them. The father, believing
he must have perished on the Journey,
mourned him as dead, and in the depth Of
his grief lost his sense Of duty toward his
wife and other children. lie became will
ing TO be believed dead and took no steps TO
relieve his wife's anxiety. His hope was
that he would make lucky strike ut the
diggings and take back money if he failed
to take back their boy, Twice he started
homeward dwith enough money ior pres.
ent need and twice he5 was robbed ! He
tried the Australian dissings for awhile,
but i'll luck stuck TO him like burr. Ten
years ago he transferred his efforts
to the diamond fields OF South Africa, but
was again unsuccessful. . He has not been
willing TO say much about his African ex-
periences, but now and then lie drops eX-
pressions TO the belief. that lie became
person OF considerable consequence on the
Guinea coast. Z. Atall events he has very
heavy. watch -and chain, which he says
were presented to him for, leading an ex.
tcnsiye caravan from Central to Northern
Africa. He was among the refugees who
temporarily resided in Cairo and were COM
PEELED to flee for the protection Of the
British fleet OF Alexandria when the pres
ent nnpleasantness was Iipening. He was
landed ut Malta and made his way thence
TO Baltimore, where he reached week
ago. 4 Chicago directory contained the
name Horace II: Lloyd and he journeyel
hither, hardly during 10 hope that it was
his son and fully persuaded that his wife
had long since died. T3iUc4 ihIaG .a3S.
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