Old Specie, the Treasury Detective; or, The Harbor Lights of New York — page 25: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

OLD SPECIE. 17 weapon Aaron Burr used in his duel with Hamil- ton. Been in our family since. It’s a dead shot when properly loaded.”’ “Good! It’ll do to scare these sharks with, I reckon. Now, go in, squire. Tell ’em you got one of their circulars, and have come on to buy some of the green-goods.”’ The detective found the door open to his touch. He entered a hall. / On a door at the end was a paper placard. It had the word “‘Office’’ painted on it. Walking up to this door he knocked. ‘Come in.”’ He opened it a little and peeped in cautiously. Only one man was there. He seemed to be busily engaged counting bank bills, several little piles being before him. Old Specie entered. The usual fencing was gone through with, the man appearing cautious. In spite of his disguise the detective recognized in him the same brisk young fellow who had ac- costed him first. Finally, all preliminaries having been arranged, fifteen hundred dollars were counted out in genuine money, but called counterfeit by the sharper. This was placed in a little black satchel and handed to Old Specie, who paid for it. Then the same old game was tried. getting him to lay the satchel on a desk for a few minutes while he examined some fine work, Had he done so the satchel would have been changed for another just like it, but containing brown paper packages. Old Specie hung on to the bag grimly, v comicbooks (ele)