"Fellers at your age have that much money in banks" "And more, too," Tom nodded.

"Did you think, Jim, that we had never earned any money ?" "Well, I didn't know that you probably made more'n eighteen or twenty dollars a week," Ferrers declared.
"We've made slightly more than that, with two good railroad jobs behind us," Tom laughed.

"And here's our firm pass-book at the bank, Jim.

You'll see by it that we have a good deal more than a thousand dollars there.

Now, you draw the thousand that the check calls for.