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to the point where I could swipe the baby without being
noticed. We went back to the Apex Building. This dial setting
was more involved, as the building did not yet exist in 1945.
But I had precalculated it.

0100-VI-20 Sept. 1945 - Cleveland-Skyview Motel:: Field
kit, baby, and I arrived in a motel outside town. Earlier I had
registered as "Gregory Johnson, Warren, Ohio, " so we arrived
in a room with curtains closed, windows locked, and doors
bolted, and the floor cleared to allow for waver as the machine
hunts. You can get a nasty bruise from a chair where it
shouldn't be - not the chair, of course, but backlash from the
field.
No trouble. Jane was sleeping soundly; I carried her
out, put her in a grocery box on the seat of a car I had
provided earlier, drove to the orphanage, put her on the steps,
drove two blocks to a "service station" (the petroleum-products
sort) and phoned the orphanage, drove back in time to see them
taking the box inside, kept going and abandoned the car near
the motel - walked to it and jumped forward to the Apex
Building in 1963.
2200-VI-24 April 1963 - Cleveland-Apex Bldg.: I had cut
the time rather fine - temporal accuracy depends on span,
except on return to zero. If I had it right, Jane was
discovering, out in the park this balmy spring night, that she
wasn't quite as nice a girl as she had thought., I grabbed a
taxi to the home of those skinflints, had the hackie wait
around a comer while I lurked in shadows.
Presently I spotted them down the street, arms around
each other. He took her up on the porch and made a long job of
kissing her good-night-longer than I thought. Then she went in
and he came down the walk, turned away. I slid into step and
hooked an arm in his. -- That's all, son, " I announced
quietly. -- I'm back to pick you up. --
"You! " He gasped and caught his breath.
"Me. Now you know who he is - and after you think it
over you'll know who you are... and if you think hard enough,
you'll figure out who the baby is... and who I am. --
He didn't answer, he was badly shaken. It's a shock to
have it proved to you that you can't resist seducing yourself.
I took him to the Apex Building and we jumped again.

2300-VIII, 12 Aug. 1985-Sub Rockies Base: I woke the
duty sergeant, showed my I. D., told the sergeant to bed my
companion down with a happy pill and recruit him in the moming.
The sergeant looked sour, but rank is rank, regardless of era;
he did what I said-thinking, no doubt, that the next time we
met he might be the colonel and I the sergeant. Which can
happen in our corps. -- What name? -- he asked.
I wrote it out. He raised his eyebrows. -- Like so, eh?