"I want to know a thing or two.

Yours is a working-man's society, I think?
Aye--and I understand you've a system whereby such a man can put his bits of savings by in your hands ?" "A capital system, too!" answered the secretary, seizing on a pamphlet and pushing it into his visitor's hand.

"I don't believe there's better in England! If you read that--" "I'll take a look at it some time," said Jettison, putting the pamphlet in his pocket.

"Well, now, I also understand that Collishaw was in the habit of bringing you a bit of saved money now and then a sort of saving fellow, wasn't he ?" Stebbing nodded assent and reached for a ledger which lay on the farther side of his desk.
"Collishaw," he answered, "had been a member of our society ever since it started--fourteen years ago.

And he'd been putting in savings for some eight or nine years.