Possible Clues:

• Heard Gerald opens current account with last million from small holding in the petroleum industry perhaps
• Carry liquid collected by girl -- in this?
• Fuel carrier
• Fuel container Tom can't use, but ___?
• Metal container for storing or transporting liquids, typically petrol
• Start of Jane Eyre, oddly, with lines about new repository of refined output
• Gerald may put petrol in this