The Mountains Wild by Sarah Stewart Taylor

Author:Sarah Stewart Taylor [Taylor, Sarah Stewart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250754134
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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“Hang on,” Griz says. I look up from my files, my eyes throbbing from the focused effort over so many hours.

She has my accordion file emptied out on the table and she’s sorting pieces of paper into individual folders. “What have you got?” I ask her.

“Well, look. I was going through all these receipts and things and there’s one that I … well, look.” She pushes over an AIB bank receipt. I read it carefully. It looks like Erin changed $100 worth of traveler’s checks and got back 70 Irish punts. It shows the exchange rate on the day she changed them. It looks just like the other receipts that I found with Erin’s things at the house. As far as I remembered, she’d had them in the zippered pouch she’d used to hold all her financial documents. I’d looked through a lot of it when I was in Dublin and then I’d looked through them again when the boxes Emer and Daisy had packed had arrived in the US. I’d kept all the receipts together, but there hadn’t been anything very interesting there.

But I see why Griz picked this one out.

“The date is the eighteenth of September, 1993,” she says. “In Dublin.”

“You’re right. I didn’t notice it before because they all looked the same. Griz, this is a good catch.” I stare at the receipt. “You know what this means, right?”

Griz’s eyes are wide. “She came back to Dublin. She came back, she changed money, and she went back to the flat and left this there,” she says. “Why? To get something? To meet someone?”

“Yeah.” My mind is going a hundred miles an hour. This could explain why it seemed like she took a lot of clothes for a day or two. She didn’t, but she came back to the house to get more clothes because she knew she was going to be gone for a while.

“But why didn’t the roommates tell us that?” Griz asks.

“Because they weren’t there. They were mostly out during the day. They hadn’t checked her room so they wouldn’t have known if anything was missing. They would have had no way of knowing she came back. Can you find me the statements for Daisy and Emer?”

She finds the file. “Here.” Daisy and Emer both signed statements saying that they were out all day on the sixteenth. They came home that evening and found Erin gone. They were around the house on the seventeenth, but she didn’t come home. Then, my memory is right. Daisy and Emer said they were out all day on the eighteenth. They’d gone shopping on Grafton Street and then met some friends at a pub and hadn’t gotten home until late Saturday night.

I say, “So she was in Glenmalure on the sixteenth and the morning of the seventeenth. And she was still in Dublin on the eighteenth.”

“But what about the bus time on the piece of paper?” Griz asks. “Why did she have the bus time if she wasn’t going somewhere on the seventeenth?”

It hits me.

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