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Old Lloyd cared for only three things in all the world: his secret hoard of bright gold pieces, his daughter, Anna, and his half-witted son, Elias. Anna, his daughter, loved and was loved by David Llewellyn, a workman in a nearby copper mine. This mine was owned by a Mr. Lewis, and was apparently worthless. In fact it was an open secret that Mr. Lewis was quite willing to sell it for a thousand pounds. One day Griffith, the mining foreman, discovered the unsuspected and remarkably rich vein of ore at a little distance from the shaft of the mine. He concealed his discovery with a mass of loose rubbish and instantly set his wits to work to discover some means of raising the thousand pounds necessary for the purchase of the mine. At about this time old Lloyd decided to transfer his money from the hole in the floor of his living-room to the ruins of an abbey near the town. He buried it near the abbey well, and to insure it against casual discovery assumed the conventional vestments of a ...
