One had been sent by his mother, who these days addressed him with the nervous politeness someone might employ in a first approach to a skittish Korean orphan. Today she was asking what he’d like to have for his birthday, still five weeks away. The second envelope appeared to have no return address, just a Washington postmark, but there was, Tim now noticed on the back flap, a small handwritten name: Miss Beatrice Lightfoot. Inside, neatly cut from the Sunday Star, was the item MARRIAGE OF MR. FULLER ANNOUNCED. The bridegroom-elect, deputy assistant chief…to be married on Saturday, December
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