"That's hard to say at this distance of time."
"I wish you would try to recollect."
"Why, I think the morning afterward—Sunday morning. Yes, it was in the Sunday papers. I remember now."
"You remember distinctly?"
"Yes, sir."
"What paper?"
"The Beacon. We take no other."
The Beacon was the paper upon which Robert was employed, thus forming a curious bond of communication between the two Arnold households.
"You were not in town, then, that afternoon?"
"No, sir."