«Here comes the cab,» Dick said. «You gave them to her?»
«Yes, it was funny. She said, ‘Mine? To Keep? Forever?’ Wasn’t that a strange way of asking it? But I laughed and said, ‘Yes, ma’am. Yours forev—’»
She broke off, for the shadowy outline of the taxi was at the curb, and Sam opened the door and called out, «Come on, folks!»
Aubrey skipped across the sidewalk into the cab, and the others followed. It started.
The fog was thicker now. They could not see out the windows at all. It was as though a gray wall pressed against the glass, as though the world outside was gone, completely and utterly. Even the windshield, from where they sat, was a gray blank.
«How can he drive so fast?» Richard asked, and there was an edge of nervousness in his voice. «By the way, where are we going, Sam?»
«By George,» Sam said, «I forgot to tell her.»
«Her?»
«Yeah. Woman driver. They’ve got them all over now. I’ll—»
He leaned forward and tapped on the glass, and the woman turned.
Edith saw her face, and screamed.
THE END
Professor Jones had been working on time theory for many years.
«And I have found the key equation,» he told his daughter one day. «Time is a field. This machine I have made can manipulate, even reverse, that field.»
Pushing a button as he spoke, he said, «This should make time run backward run time make should this,» said he, spoke he as button a pushing.
«Field that, reverse even, manipulate can made have I machine this. Field a is time.» Day one daughter his told he, «Equation key the found have I and.»
Years many for theory time on working been had Jones Professor.
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