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Saturday. Fifty-five hours each way, with the visits lasting about fifteen minutes. Itbalances out. I noticed the marks on Zeke when I fed him Thursday, but of course I didn’t realize. He was all shot up, poor thing. Antie found lots of little bullets in him when she skinned him today.”
    â€œYou’re lucky you weren’t killed yesterday.”
    â€œIf I’d gotten killed, then it couldn’t have happened, could it? Poor Zeke. I’m sorry I threw those rocks at him. But the noise was just so—”
    â€œHarry, I don’t think this should go any further. I know that there’ll be a time paradox if we don’t build the blunzer today, but after seeing what you did yesterday, I’d almost rather—”
    â€œAw, come on, Fletch. Don’t be so—”
    â€œI was talking about it this morning with Nancy and Sondra.”
    â€œSondra Tupperware?”
    â€œShe was at our church today, the First Church of Scientific Mysticism. She’s the new assistant.”
    â€œOh, yeah, she told me about that. I think mysticism’s a bunch of crap. All regions are a bunch of crap.”
    â€œWhat do you believe in, Harry?”
    â€œWho’s asking?”
    â€œWell, Nancy and Sondra and I were talking, and I realized how disastrous it could be for someone like you to get any kind of control over the world. Do you remember what you said to Nancy when she was talking about world hunger?”
    â€œSure. ‘There’s too damn many people anyway.’ It’s true, Fletcher, and you know it. Don’t give me this holier-than-thou routine.”
    â€œAre you going to bring some terrible plague down on us, Harry? Would you kill off the whole human race?”
    â€œI’d save these girls.” Harry grinned and patted his stack of magazines.
    â€œDinner’s ready,” called Antie from inside the house.
    The whole floor above Harry’s shop was an apartment. Apparently Antie had been expecting me; two places were set in the dark old dining room. Harry and I took our seats, and Antie brought in the meal.
    Besides the lizard stew, we had fried potatoes, cucumber salad, fresh rolls, a plate of hot sauerkraut, and a bottle of good red wine. Harry ate with his hands.
    â€œThe lizard’s not bad,” I observed between forkfuls. The meat was pale and spongy, a bit like soft-shelled lobster. It gave me a good feeling to be eating something that had tried to kill me only the day before.
    â€œMmmpf,” said Harry by way of agreement. He chewed with his mouth open, then swallowed. “I’ve always had a thing about Godzilla. It’s no surprise I picked on poor Zeke for the counterweight.”
    â€œBut that’s just so irresponsible, Harry. You could have used a shoe or something, and then yesterday would have been no problem. A giant shoe would have blocked our way for a while, and then it would have disappeared. How do I know what other craziness you’re going to pull? What if you crack the Earth in half or something? You’re not into disaster movies, are you?”
    â€œNah, not really. I got enough of that stuff when I was little. My Dad used to read the Book of Revelations to us every night.”
    â€œOh, brother. That’s all we need. Look, Harry,it’s time we had a serious talk. I’ve seen both you and Zeke travel through time, so I know the blunzer is going to work. We’re going to build it today and tonight you’ll be master of space and time, at least for a while. God knows I would have picked someone else, but at least you’re my friend and I can count on you to make me rich while you have the power, right?”
    â€œNo problem. You want gold, or what?”
    â€œGold’s too high profile. Give me five million bucks in paper currency. Used bills, small denominations.”
    â€œOkay. What else?”
    â€œWell—this is Nancy’s idea. She wants you to make