While the vessel was getting under weigh, Smith was in the cabin alone, and seeing a great number of chain traces lying on the cabin floor, he took them up and threw them all out of the cabin window! “Because,” said he, “they would get about my neck again.” During the passage he appeared very active; he played on his fife and was quite an agreeable passenger. But on the vessel’s arrival at Windsor, he left her immediately without any ceremony; and notwithstanding the very strong regard which he had always possessed for his family as he called them, he left them also, and everything else that he had brought with him. He was seen only a very short time in Windsor before he entirely disappeared, and never was known to be there afterwards, but was seen at some distance from Windsor, in several other places, and recognized by many, but always carefully evaded being spoken to. [Illustration] CHAPTER IX. Did Not Go to His Wife in Nova Scotia but Made a Tour Committing Various Depredations—Is Seen in Portland, Maine—Is Heard of at Boston and New York and Then at New Haven Where He Robbed a Hotel—Arrest and Escape, Recapture and Conviction. After having made his appearance in different parts of Nova Scotia, he called at a certain house one morning, on a bye-road, and ordered breakfast, and asked for a towel also, and a piece of soap that he might wash at a small brook that was near the house. The woman of the house, and a maid, were the only persons in the house at the time. Smith left a large bundle, which he carried, on a chest which was standing in the room, and went out to wash. The bundle presented rather a singular appearance, and attracted the young woman’s notice, so that she said to the other: “I wonder what he has in that bundle. If you will keep watch at the window while he is washing at the brook, I will open and see what is in it.” They did so and found a great number of watches, of which they counted fifteen, with many other valuable articles. She tied up the bundle again, and placed it where he had left it and said, “This man has stolen these watches.” When he came in, he handed the towel to the young woman, and said, “There were just fifteen watches, were there?” and with such an expression of countenance, that she could not refrain from answering, “Yes.” “But,” said he, “you were mistaken about my stealing them, for I came honestly by them.” Upon which the young woman instantly recognized him to be Henry More Smith, and concluded that he was collecting his “hidden treasure,” which he had deposited while he was in Roden.