I've fifteen thousand left from the sale of bonds and a personal loan I obtained from McDonnell.

That will pay for about two weeks' work.

And I think we've made every dollar go as far as it would under the circumstances." "My word for that." "It's this little trick of Menocal's that's burning up good coin.
Sixty thousand would have built the project ordinarily; my estimates were correct enough.

But having to do the job in this infernal weather is what's raising the cost forty thousand more.

I feel like entering in the ledger 'To account of frost--$40,000.00.' Like that." Lee scribbled the line on a sheet of paper and handed it to Pat.