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Joel Dorman Steele A Brief History of the United States, Fourth Edition (1885)
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defy her agreement with Ace not to step outside the tiny circle of HX-1 s
operating field on the initial experiment was almost irresistible. She longed
to touch the fabric of the past, to feel the worn boards of the barn, to
handle as well as look. Again her thoughts whirled with speculation; again the
petty moment stretched and contracted. She spent eternity and instantaneity at
once.
When the moment of return came, she again experienced the feeling of
dissolution, followed immediately by the light. When she opened her eyes she
was back.
Midbin, who could not deny Barbara s disappearance for a full minute while we
all watched, nevertheless insisted she had suffered some kind of
hallucination. He could offer no explanation of her vanishing before our eyes,
but insisted that this and her alleged traveling in time were two separate
phenomena. Her conviction she had been back to 1900 he attributed to her
emotional eccentricity.
The logical answer to this obstinate skepticism was to invite him to see for
himself. To Ace, of course, belonged the honor of the second journey; he
elected to spend three minutes in 1885, returning to report he had found the
barn well occupied by both cattle and fowl, and been scared stiff of discovery
when dogs set up a furious barking. He brought back with him a new laid egg 67
years old. Or was it? Trips in time are confusing that way.
Barbara was upset more than I thought warranted. We daren t be anything but
invisible spectators, she scolded. The faintest indication of our presence,
the slightest impingement on the past may change the whole course of events.
We have no way of knowing what actions have no consequences if there can be
any. Goodness knows what your idiocy in removing the egg has done. It s
absolutely essential not to betray our presence in any way. Remember this in
the future.
The next day Midbin spent five minutes in 1820. The barn had not yet been
built, and he found himself in a field of wild hay. The faint snick of
scythes, and voices not too far off, indicated mowers. Midbin dropped to the
ground. His view of the past was restricted to tall grass and some persistent
ants who explored his face and hands until the time was up and he returned
with broken spears of ripe hay clinging to his clothes.
I was reminded of Enfandin s, Why should I believe my eyes? by Midbin s
reaction. He did not deny that a phenomenon had taken place, nor that his
experience coincided with Barbara s theories.
On the other hand he didn t admit he had actually been transported into the
past. The mind can do anything, anything at all. Create boils and cancers why
not ants and grass? I don t know I don t know. . . . And he added abruptly,
No one can help her now.
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For the next two months Barbara and Ace explored HX-1 s possibilities. They
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quickly learned its limited range which was, subject to slight variations,
little more than a century. When they tried to operate beyond this range the
translation simply didn t take place, though the same feeling of dissolution
occurred. When the light faded they were still in the present. Midbin s
venture into the hayfield had been a freak, possibly due to peculiar weather
conditions at both ends of the journey.
They had not known this at the time nor realized that by hazarding this
marginal zone the traveler might be lost. They set 1850 as a safe limit.
Nor would HX-1 work in reverse; the future remained closed. Also they
discovered that time spent in the past consumed an equal amount of time in the
present; they could not return to a point a minute after departure when they
had been gone for an hour. As near as I could understand Barbara this was
because of the limitations of HX-1: duration was set in the present. In order
to come back to a time-point not in correspondence with the period actually
spent, another engine or at least another set of controls would have to be
taken into the past. Even then radical changes would have to be made since
HX-1 didn t work for the future.
Within these limits (and another, more inconvenient one: that they couldn t
visit the identical past moment twice; there was no possibility of meeting
one s time-traveling self) they roamed almost at will. Ace spent a full week
in October 1896, walking as far as Philadelphia, enjoying the enthusiasm and
fury of the presidential campaign. Knowing President Bryan was not only going
to be elected, but would serve three terms, he found it hard indeed to obey
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