But he'd be very like to have a good deal more than usual on him tonight." "Why ?" asked the sergeant.
"Because he'd been to the bank this morning to draw his pension money," replied Miss Pett.

"I don't know how much that would be, any more than I know where it came from.

He was a close man--he'd never tell anybody more than he liked, and he never told me aught about that.

But I do know it was what you'd call a fair amount--for a man that lives in a cottage.
He went to the bank this noon--he always went once a quarter--and he said this afternoon that he'd go and pay his rent to Mr.Cotherstone there--" "As he did," muttered Cotherstone, "yes--he did that." "Well, he'd have all the rest of his money on him," continued the housekeeper.

"And he'd have what he had before, because he'd other money coming in than that pension.