Old Specie, the Treasury Detective; or, The Harbor Lights of New York — page 101: what you’re looking at

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OLD SPECIE. 93 *‘He sent around the coffin, and said it should lie in his family tomb until spring, when we would, perhaps, have decided where to bury it. “We thought him a friend, indeed, and could not but accept his generous offer. “Little did I suspect the deviltry he was upto. I would have crushed the lies back in his throat had I thought anything like the truth.”’ ‘Perhaps it is as well all around that you did not, for we would have failed to get at the bottom of his deviltry. ‘‘T feel for your natural grief at having her sacred body carried off in such a way, but remember, it was these arms that held her, and Heaven is my witness that in all this wide world there lives nota single woman who has ever been treated with want of respect by me. ‘Besides, her gentle spirit has fled, and only the earthly tenement remains.” _ “All you say is true, sir, but it does not mitigate my grief at all.”’ “Vou will do as I say?’’ ‘“‘Certainly.’’ “Then just at present breathe no word of the truth to a living soul.’’ “T will not.” ‘Have these good people do the same thing.”’ ‘Martin will easily promise you.”’ “Then I must have an interview with the young oirl. Ifear for her sanity unless she learns the truth.’’ | “Poor girl!”’ ‘“How has she acted?”’ “As though dazed. She repulsed my caresses, and Gomicboo cS cor