"I shall want some of it before long, but the rest will be very well off here." So a book was handed him, and the president shook him by the hand with all the warmth that eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars of increased assets and four new depositors implied.
Peter did not need to draw any of the two hundred and fifty dollars, however.

In November he had another knock at his door.
It proved to be Mr.Dennis Moriarty, of whom we have incidentally spoken in connection with the half-price drinks for the Milligan wake, and as spokesman of the torchlight procession.
"Good-mornin' to yez, sir," said the visitor.
It was a peculiarity of Peter's that he never forgot faces.

He did not know Mr.Moriarty's name, never having had it given him, but he placed him instantly.
"Thank you," said Peter, holding out his hand.

Peter did not usually shake hands in meeting people, but he liked the man's face.

It would never take a prize for beauty.