"Do you know a young man, about five feet eight inches tall, with fiery red hair, who affects somewhat loud clothes?"
"Why, that is Thomas Chatham. You know him, then?"
"I? No; I never heard of him before."
"Then, how on earth do you know——?"
"He has been here recently."
"Yes; I told you he had been here last week; but——"
"No; I mean he was here yesterday afternoon," interrupted the reporter.
"Not to my knowledge," said Dunlap incredulously.
"I thought as much," Sturgis replied quietly; "but he was here, for all that."
The banker looked perplexed.