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And Gramps, lost in another time, murmured of that year and how the te in that town

Then Douglas said, ‘1869’

And Grandpa was lost four years after Lincoln was shot

Standing there, watching, Douglas realized that if he visited here night after night and spoke to Grandpa, Grandpa, asleep, would be his teacher and that if he spent six –after–ht school, he would have an education that nobody else in the world would have Grandpa would give his knowledge as a teacher, without knowing it, and Doug would drink it in and not tell Tom or his parents or anybody

‘That’s it,’ whispered Doug ‘Thank you, Grandpa, for all you say, asleep or awake And thanks again for today and your advice on the purloineds I don’t want to say any more I don’t want to wake you up’

So Douglas, his ears full up and histhere and crept toward the stairs and the tower rooht town and the moon

Just then the great clock across town, an immense moon, a full moon of stunned sound and round illuht sound

One

Douglas climbed the stairs

Two Three

Four Five

Reaching the to, Douglas looked out upon an ocean of rooftops and the great monster clock tower as time summed itself up

Six Seven

His heart floundered

Eight Nine