In other circumstances I would have thought it was a pillow. He was not wearing white, but clutching it tĬhest. He was no older than I am, a head shorter and much thi Almost ascetic look-ing. I pulled out the letter from my clergyman uncle in Wales that was supposed to gain access to the Dean, and patted my back pocket to make sure I hadn't lost the microfiche Ox English Dictionary, Revised, with Historical Supplements, I'd smuggled out of the Bodlei couldn't pull it out in the middle of the conversation, but with luck I could muddle through the encounter by context and look up the words I didn't know later. A verger, or possibly the Very Reverend D himself. I could see a candle gleaming feebly a way off and a closer blur of white moving toward me. I couldn't see more than a few feet into the church. Thanks to the g man, I was about as unprepared for my practicum as it was possible for him to make me. The good man was responsible for my standing just inside the propped-open west doors, gaw like the country boy I was supposed to be, looking for a stone that wasn't there. "I think you'd better listen to him while you can." Good Kivrin. I don't know the money, the language, the history. "Yes." "And then what? I've got two days. "You think I should go see Dunworthy again?" I said. She had been practically hysterical w she got her practicum changed from fifteenth to fourteenth century England, and how did e century qualify as a practicum? Even counting infectious diseases they couldn't have been more a five. Maybe should listen to what he says." I had expected Kivrin to be at least a little sympathetic. You're leaving the day tomor-row.' The man's a total incompetent." "No," she said. `Time trav not like taking the tube, young man,' he said. And the esteemed Dunworthy doesn't even bat an eye when I tell him. "All because some computer add apostrophe s. "Two days!" I had shouted at my roommate, Kivrin. You can't expect me to get ready for London in the Blitz in two days." "Yes," Dunworthy had said. "Look, it took me four years to get ready to travel with St. "Either you report on the twentie you don't go at all." "But I'm not ready," I'd said. Bartho-lomew," the esteemed Dunworthy said, blinking at me through those antique spectacles of his. "Travelling in time is not like taking the tube, Mr. The only things that would have helped were a crash course in London during the Blitz and a more time. I went to see the fire-watch stone yesterday, with some kind of misplaced notion that seeing the scene of the crime would some help.
It wasn't dedicated until 1951, accompanying speech by the Very Rev-erend D Walter Matthews, and this is only 1940.
September 20 -Of course the first thing I looked for was the fire-watch stone. "History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over." -Sir Walte Raleigh
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