"It may not be much to begin with, but you can make it anything you like; that'll be up to you.
As to salary--well, I don't know what you're getting in that one-horse bank, but I'll double it, whatever it is.

That will be the start, of course.

After that it is up to you, as I said." "Mr.Colton this may be a good joke, but I don't see it--yet." "I don't joke often in business; can't afford to." "You are really serious?
You mean what you say ?" "Yes." "But why?
You don't know anything about me." "I know all that is necessary.

And I have found out that you are all right, so far as bank work goes.

That fellow Taylor and some others told me that.