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Roscoe poked his dial-laden chest with a metal thumb. "Let me tell
you something, dimwit. We got us a very rough time itinerary
blocked out. Checking out your Sara's roots is going to require
guts, luck and the ability to deliver a well-placed smack in the
snoot if need be. I don't want the kid coming to any grief, which is
why I assigned her the best time machine we've got in stock,
namely myself."


"I don't see how we're going to run into much trouble, Roscoe."
Tim indicated the genealogy chart stuck to the wall. "The
Tenbrook family tree is cluttered with decent, respectable and dull
citizens. Year after year, decade after decade, they seem to have
produced nothing but clergymen, doctors and interior decorators."


Roscoe made another rattling amused noise. "Holy smoke," he
observed. "If you believe that, you'll believe anything."
Copyright ©, 1981, by Ron Goulart


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CHAPTER 1
There was a robot in the closet.
Tim Zackery stood in the living pod, fleezlined thermocoat dangling in one hand and wul
mittens bunched up in the other, and stared in at the thing. He'd activated the door opener and there
was the robot facing him.
It was nearly six and a half feet high, a good two inches taller than he was, and of a greenish
copper color. Humanoid in shape and features, with very believable piercing blue eyes. There were