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and seventy million years ago,” Bryce explained. “The warp is way back in the mountains.”
    â€œWatch figured that out already,” Adam said.
    Bryce shook his head. “What Watch couldn’t know is what he will find on the other side of the mountains. A doorway hasn’t simply opened to the past. Actual pieces of the past have materialized here and covered the land just beyond Spooksville. What I’m saying is we have mountains and volcanoes from seventy million years ago sitting just beyond those peaks.”
    â€œSo you’ve been there?” Sally asked, impressed.
    Bryce was grim. “Yes. I’ve been studying this phenomena for the last two days, and have beentrying to find a solution to it. But so far I haven’t been able to stop it.”
    â€œBut I know you will,” Sally said with stars in her eyes.
    â€œIf you knew about these dinosaurs two days ago,” Adam complained, “you were awfully slow in warning people.”
    â€œI didn’t want to start a panic,” Bryce said.
    Adam was bitter. “A panic? We had a little panic this morning when a pterodactyl carried Cindy away. If you hadn’t decided to try to solve this problem all by yourself, she would probably be here now.”
    Bryce nodded reluctantly. “I may have made a mistake. But I did accomplish a great deal in the last two days, even if I haven’t reversed the time warp. I do know that we can use the Secret Path to help stop it.”
    â€œHow do you know that?” Adam snapped.
    â€œThe Secret Path is not just a path into other dimensions. It is also a portal into other times. I am convinced that what created this time warp exists in the past.”
    Adam snickered. “You’re just guessing. You don’t know any more than we do.”
    â€œYou’re wrong,” Bryce said simply. “About this phenomena I know a great deal more than any of you, and that includes Watch. For example, I know that for time to have become so distorted a tremendous amount of energy must have been set loose in the past, probably seventy million years ago. I also know that this explosion—if you want to call it that—must have happened at a place that was susceptible to time as well as space fractures.”
    â€œI don’t know what you’re talking about,” Adam said. He really didn’t.
    Bryce spoke with patience. “Madeline Templeton’s tombstone in the Spooksville cemetery is the one place that leads to the Secret Path. It is a natural spot for space and time distortion. It’s my belief that the explosion that occurred in the past happened there. It sent a ripple of time space distortion into our time and space.”
    â€œBut you say land from seventy million years ago lies beyond the mountains,” Adam protested. “The cemetery is on this side of the mountains. I don’t see the connection.”
    â€œThe doorway to the Secret Path is here now,” Bryce said. “But where was it seventy million years ago? Whole continents have shifted sincethen. I think in the past the cemetery and what is happening on the other side of the mountains overlapped. I’m going to use the Secret Path to go back in time to stop the explosion from ever happening.”
    â€œWhat a magnificent plan!” Sally exclaimed.
    â€œAnd you just thought you’d ride a dinosaur into town while you were at it?” Adam muttered, still annoyed at Bryce’s nerve. Yet despite himself, Adam was impressed by Bryce’s logic.
    Bryce spoke darkly. “I may fail in my plan, and die in the past. I told you twice why I am riding this dinosaur. Why don’t you believe me?”
    â€œAdam suffers from poor self-esteem,” Sally explained. “His nasty remarks are just part of a defense mechanism.”
    â€œI believe you,” Adam said reluctantly. “But I suspect you won’t need to ride a dinosaur to warn people of