The night editor read it with bewilderment. He glanced up.
“What's that got to do with the Clark case?”
“Nothing. Nice people, though. Know them both.”
When the night editor walked away, rather affronted, Bassett took up the paper and reread the paragraph.
“Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wheeler, of Haverly, announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth, to Doctor Richard Livingstone.”
He sat for a long time staring at it.