Since it was tied to his first business interview with Grierson père, Raymer was able to recall the date, approximately, and together they turned the file of the Pioneer Press until they came to the number containing the Associated Press story of the crime. It was fairly circumstantial; the young woman at the teller's window figured in it, and there was a sketchy description of the robber.
"If you should meet the man face to face, would you recognise him from the description?" she flashed up at Raymer.
"Not in a thousand years," he confessed. "Would you?"
"No; not from the description," she admitted. Then she passed to a matter apparently quite irrelevant.
"Didn't I see Miss Farnham's return noticed in the Wahaskan the other day?"
With Charlotte's father a daily visitor at Mereside, it seemed incredible that Miss Grierson had not heard of the daughter's home-coming. But Raymer answered in good faith.
"You may have seen it some time ago. She and Miss Gilman have been home for three or four weeks."
"Somebody said they were coming up the river by boat; did they?"
"Yes, all the way from New Orleans."
"That must have been delightful, if they were fortunate enough to get a good boat. I've been told that the table is simply impossible on some of them."