Sentence:  “Dick” Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of <WSD>specie</WSD> and the tender admonition, “Got to ‘scram,' kid — write if you get work.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage.