Three Days To Never by Tim Powers

Author:Tim Powers [Powers, Tim]
Language: eng
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Published: 2011-01-29T23:32:15.905682+00:00

Three Days To Never by Tim Powers He could try to do that much for his younger self, at least. Lying on Grammar's bed now, he sniffed — then hiked himself up on his elbows. The raw reek of gasoline was overpowering the scent of the jasmine, and for a breathless instant he thought some recoil effect was pulling him back to the moment of his arrival in the gasoline-fumey Kaleidoscope Shed — with the dozen impossible infants waving their arms in the weeds outside — and then he heard young Frank Marrity's voice through the open window behind his head. "There's a cigarette in it!" Marrity said. Then the old man bared his teeth and winced, for twelve-year-old Daphne said, "What, in the gasoline?" "Right, see, that's the filter, and that's the paper that used to be around it." "Who'd throw a cigarette in a gas can?" "Somebody who thought it would set it on fire. I bet she laid a lit cigarette across the open mouth of the can, figuring when it burned down it'd fall in. Which it did. But then it just went out." "You shouldn't pour it into the dirt. I think that's illegal. Why didn't the cigarette set the gas on fire?" "The can was nearly full. I guess there wasn't enough vapor. We can't just leave it sitting here; and we can't take it to a gas station for, for whatever the proper disposal is, on a bus." The old man heard the clang of the empty gas can being put down on the concrete of the patio. "I wouldn't have taken bets on it not catching fire, though," Marrity's voice said. "I can see why she thought she had reliably burned down the shed. She must have left too fast to see that it hadn't worked." The old man in the bedroom shivered in sudden comprehension — if Grammar's file:///K|/eMule/Incoming/Powers,%20Tim%20-%20Thr...ers%20-%20Three%20Days%20To%20Never%20(V1.0).html (224 of 438)21-12-2006 17:45:52

Three Days To Never by Tim Powers makeshift incendiary device had worked, he would have been jumping straight into the middle of an inferno, at noon on Sunday, instead of just into a heady reek of gasoline fumes. Even the fumes had made him scramble out of the shed as fast as he could. "Poor old Grammar," said Daphne. "I wonder what was going on." "I think we've got to figure out what was going on, before somebody else tries to shoot me." "Let's go look at the shed," said Daphne, her voice moving away from the window. Old Marrity swung his legs off the bed. In both his previous lifetimes he had eventually dug up the gold wire, and in horrible Life B he had sold his trailer to get gold wire to replace it and rewire the time machine, but he couldn't let them disassemble it now — they might just wreck it, and if the machine was gone, could he still have jumped back here? He couldn't figure out the logic of it, but he didn't want them fooling with the machine.

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