It was then getting on toward the end of the afternoon, and he arrived just in time to receive his money before the bank closed.
He received the deposit in bank-notes of the following amounts: one fifty-pound note, three twenty-pound notes, six ten-pound notes, and six five-pound notes.

His object in drawing the money in this form was to have it ready to lay out immediately in trifling loans, on good security, among the small tradespeople of his district, some of whom are sorely pressed for the very means of existence at the present time.
Investments of this kind seemed to Mr.Yatman to be the most safe and the most profitable on which he could now venture.
He brought the money back in an envelope placed in his breast pocket, and asked his shopman, on getting home, to look for a small, flat, tin cash-box, which had not been used for years, and which, as Mr.Yatman remembered it, was exactly of the right size to hold the bank-notes.

For some time the cash-box was searched for in vain.

Mr.Yatman called to his wife to know if she had any idea where it was.

The question was overheard by the servant-of-all-work, who was taking up the tea-tray at the time, and by Mr.Jay, who was coming downstairs on his way out to the theater.