If it's money that worries you, don't waste any time explaining how it happened; just tell me how much.

I had my bank book balanced yesterday and I've got exactly twelve thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and eleven cents down at Tom Adams's bank.

If you can use it you're welcome; if it ain't enough I'm about to sell a bunch o' colts I've got on my Lexington place and they're good for six thousand more.

I can close the trade by a night telegram right now." Kelton laughed.

The sums she named so lightly represented wealth beyond the dreams of avarice.