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Updated: May 5, 2025
It was rather difficult to reconcile this pale, limping Mollie with the active young Time-traveller of yesterday. "You're looking a bit like a mashed potato," Dick remarked critically. "You've been shut up in the house too much. It's time we came and hauled you out. I'll tell you what, Aunt Polly-wolly- doodle, we'll take her out for a drive in the trap this afternoon."
"He is a Time-traveller," she answered softly, "but he has travelled the other way, forwards, you know. He has invented a lot of things about flying." "Has he!" exclaimed Hugh. "That old chap!" He leaned forward and gazed more intently at the white-haired man. "I wish I was him," he said wistfully! "Cooo-eee!" The call seemed to come from far away, muffled, perhaps, by the night air.
"Now, Prudence, tell me more about Time-travellers," Mollie said; "somehow I can't seem to remember that I am one; in fact " she paused. "You can't believe it," Prudence finished for her. "I know. But it's meant to be like that. If you didn't forget you would remember too much, and then you would stop being a Time-traveller, because your mind can't be in two places at once.
"This is nothing much," Hugh said modestly, "you should see my raft that is worth seeing. I have invented a way of arranging corks so that it will float in the severest storm. It could not sink if it tried, unless, of course, it became waterlogged. But I can only work at that when we are down at Brighton." "I wish my brother Dick could be a Time-traveller and come here," sighed Mollie.
"Good gracious!" exclaimed Mollie, "who are you?" "I am a Time-traveller," the child answered, speaking in a peculiarly soft voice. "You called me, so I came." "What on earth is a Time-traveller?" asked Mollie, rather surprised to find that she did not feel in the least alarmed at this sudden apparition. "A person who travels in Time," the child replied.
"We brought it," whispered Jerry, "it was a Time-traveller." Mollie turned to the Australians. The sunlight fell on Hugh's pale face, on Grizzel's ruddy curls; there was a faint smile on Prue's lips. "Oh, we have brought our Time too near," she exclaimed. "It is good- bye! No, no, Prue! Oh this time it is good-bye!" "No, no I don't want to wake up yet! It is too soon! I haven't said good-bye.
"But she wasn't, I feel sure she wasn't, even if it was all a dream. Oh how disappointing! I did hope that parrot of Dick's meant something, and I do so want to see those children again and know what happened next. Besides, it would be thrilling to be a Time-traveller one could see all sorts of things."
"I don't know what a Girl Guide is," said the other girl, wrinkling up her pretty forehead, "but a Time-traveller has to vow on her faith and honour never to say one single word about her adventures to any grown-up, either here or there.
The chap stared at us, and Y. O. said, 'Hullo! and he said, 'Hullo! And Y. O. said, 'Who are you? And he said, 'I'm a Time-traveller! And we said, 'What the dickens is a Time-traveller? And he said 'Like to come and see? And we said, 'You bet your hat! And he said, 'Hold my fist and shut your eyes! So we did, and next thing we knew we were floating on our backs in the sea as calm and cool as cucumbers, and the raft was bobbing about, and you know the rest.
She wondered again how they heard about her coming; the children appeared to take her for granted, but, of course, they knew she was a Time-traveller! As the girls sat by their elders, idly playing with the silvery sand and chatting to each other, a large steamship came in view, coming from the north and heading south-west.
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