The bank will be still good for the money.

Joe, you read the papers as often as any come into camp." "Yes." "All right.

The next time you find anything about a savings bank that has failed and left the people in the lurch for their money, you show it to me.

Savings banks don't fail nowadays! No, Sir!" Other men through the camp were taking sly peeps at their bankbooks, as though they were half ashamed at having such possessions.

Yet many a hard toiler in camp felt a new sense of importance that morning.