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in the hundred years I was a guide I never came up against this. If there was a mirror image of the traveler left in the time they came from, they seemed to fade without incident. In this case, your name was on the lost at sea list. Perhaps it was the violent circumstance that temporarily transported you.”
    “My ship was hit by a torpedo.”
    “Yes, and your body was never found. That was on record.” Hadley sat on the floor and crossed his legs. “I hoped that somehow the you in that other time just faded… before the incident and that’s why you were listed as missing.”
    “I drowned. Jesus, I felt the water in my lungs,” Glenn said, his voice bleak as he rubbed his chest. “I died along with all of my friends and shipmates.”
    “Did you know Frank Barclay?”
    “Yeah, I knew him.”
    “He survived. He was picked up by a Japanese Navy ship and held prisoner, but when he was released, he was quoted in the transcripts of what happened that day. You saved his life.”
    Glenn sat back and said more to himself than Hadley, “The man I put my life vest on.”
    “He was on record for saying that you dragged him to some debris to keep him from drowning.”
    “I thought they were all going to die.”
    “They didn’t. About fifty survived.”
    “But I didn’t and many of my friends didn’t.”
    Hadley nodded his head. “It was war. Men have died for thousands of years through hundreds of wars. The man to the right dies, but the man on the left lives.”
    “It’s not fair that I survived, and I’m here, now.”
    “You are a traveler; you are meant to be in this century.”
    “How do you know? That I wasn’t supposed to be back there with the other men?”
    Hadley watched him for a long moment. “Because you’re here. You would not have been able to come through the bend in time if it was not meant to be. You would have gone into the bookstore and purchased Call of the Wild and left. But you didn’t. You came through the portal, so the Ancients had already decided that this is your century.”
    He scrubbed his hands over his face. “It makes no sense.”
    “If you feel that you are all right, I’ll leave you. I think I have done enough damage for one night.”
    “You truly didn’t know what was going to happen to me, did you?”
    Hadley shook his head. “No. I would never have put you through that. And again, for that I am very sorry.”

Chapter Five

    1942
    Jewel took the stack of black and white 8x10’s and slid them into the cardboard folders. She hummed to a tune on the radio and tapped her foot.
    The phone jingled on its receiver and Brenda answered, “Mountback Photography, can I help you?” She paused and then said, “Sure, hold on, I’ll get her.” Brenda held the phone out. “Jewel, it’s for you.”
    Jewel laid her work to the side and stood up from the wooden stool, and held the receiver to her ear. “Hello?”
    “Jewel, this is Mrs. Miller.”
    A client? There were a few Mrs. Millers. “Yes, Mrs. Miller. I believe we have your order, it’s…”
    “No, Jewel. This is Mrs. Miller. Glenn’s mother. I doubted they would notify you directly… and well, I hate to do this over the phone, but you are a long way from us and you needed to know…” The woman’s voice cracked. “The telegraph came today… it said that my boy is dead.”
    Jewel clenched the phone so tight her hand went numb. There must be another son. Did Glenn have a brother? Her mind raced. “Your boy?”
    “Glenn… I am talking about Glenn. Oh God …” The woman was crying. “He’s gone. His ship was torpedoed and went down. He was among the missing. Lost at sea.”
    “But lost at sea means just that… he’s lost, until someone finds him.”
    “No honey,” his mother said. “There are no more survivors. He’s gone.”
    Jewel paused for a long moment before saying, “I see…thank… you, Mrs. Miller, for calling. I have your re-order. It just came back from the printer. I will mail it out