Old Specie, the Treasury Detective; or, The Harbor Lights of New York — page 144: what you’re looking at

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136 OLD SPECIE. ‘The best haul of many years. The credit is yours, my old friend.’’ ‘‘Hortune favored me.’’ “‘T trust it will keep on.”’ ‘So do I.”’ “Tf you can only discover the place where those wonderful notes are made.”’’ ‘‘T have done so,’’ quietly. Mr. Gillam had seated himself, but at these words he sprang erect in some excitement. ‘‘Do you really mean that?”’ ‘‘T have watched the men at work, and can lay my hand on both at any hour.”’ “Thank Heaven for that. This business has wor- ried me more than anything I know of. The whole outfit must be destroyed and no trace left of it. But few of the notes are in circulation as yet, which is a fortunate thing.”’ “Tn a week it would have been serious.” ‘‘T should say so, judging from the packages that have been turned in to me, each found on one of the men. You say you watched the rascals at their work?” “Yes, sir.”’ ‘Did you recognize them?’’ Peer <22 “You hinted at Delmar.”’ ‘‘Delmar was one of the twain.”’ ‘‘Ah! he has, indeed, turned up again. It is many years since he worked. Where can he have been all the while?’’ ‘In your midst. ”’ “Hh: 9? “T have no doubt but what you have met him so- cially more than once.’’ ‘Ccomicbooks Go =|