Excerpt: "“You have bags of gold, and do you refuse to give me just a little?” “Not one cent.” “I helped you to earn that money.” “Yes.” “And you refuse to give me any, and you are going away?” “I refuse to give you any and I am going away.” The above dialogue occurred in a room on the top floor of a great tenement house, and a strangely picturesque scene was presented. An old man with frowzy hair, and deep-set eyes illuminating a dark and wrinkled face, sat by a table. Opposite to the old man was a bright-faced lad of thirteen or fourteen. The furnishings of the room were reasonably comfortable and on the table burned a flickering candle. Indeed the whole scene was weird and strange in the extreme."
Old Sleuth: a house pseudonym attributed to many writers, including Harry Loveland, Harlan Page Halsey, Edward T. LeBlanc. The Old Sleuth was the masthead of hundreds of detective and crime dime novels and magazines issued by various publishers from 1872 to 1920, in over fifteen different series.