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is he? --
"Right away. -- I opened a case, the only thing in the
room; it was a U. S. F. F. Coordinates Transformer Field Kit,
series 1992, Mod. II - a beauty, no moving parts, weight
twenty-three kilos fully charged, and shaped to pass as a
suitcase. I had adjusted it precisely earlier that day; all I
had to do was to shake out the metal net which limits the
transformation field.
Which I did. -- What's that? -- he demanded.
"Time machine, " I said and tossed the net over us.
"Hey! " he yelled and stepped back. There is a
technique to this; the net has to be thrown so that the subject
will instinctively step back onto the metal mesh, then you
close the net with both of you inside completely-else you might
leave shoe soles behind or a piece of foot, or scoop up a slice
of floor. But that's all the skill it takes. Some agents con a
subject into the net; I tell the truth and use that instant of
utter astonishment to flip the switch. Which I did.

1030-VI-3 April 1963 - Cleveland, Ohio-Apex Bldg.:
"Hey! " he repeated. -- Take this damn thing off! "
"Sorry, " I apologized and did so, stuffed the net into
the case, closed it. -- You said you wanted to find him. --
"But - you said that was a time machine! "
I pointed out a window. -- Does that look like
November? Or New York? -- While he was gawking at new buds and
spring weather, I reopened the case, took out a packet of
hundred-dollar bills, checked that the numbers and signatures
were compatible with 1963. The Temporal Bureau doesn't care how
much you spend (it costs nothing) but they don't like
unnecessary anachronisms. Too many mistakes, and a general
court-martial will exile you for a year in a nasty period, say
1974 with its strict rationing and forced labor. I never make
such mistakes; the money was okay.
He turned around and said, "What happened? --
"He's here. Go outside and take him. Here's expense
money. -- I shoved it at him and added, "Settle him, then I'll
pick you up. --
Hundred-dollar bills have a hypnotic effect on a person
not used to them. He was thumbing them unbelievingly as I eased
him into the hall, locked him out. The next jump was easy, a
small shift in era.

7100-VI-10 March 1964 - Cleveland-Apex Bldg.: There was
a notice under the door saying that my lease expired next week;
otherwise the room looked as it had a moment before. Outside,
trees were bare and snow threatened; I hurried, stopping only
for contemporary money and a coat, hat, and topcoat I had left
there when I leased the room. I hired a car, went to the
hospital. It took twenty minutes to bore the nursery attendant