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to come in after me. You’d make a very fetching prehistoric Briton, all in woad and fur.”
“So I would,” agreed Atherton cheerfully. “And so would you too. I’ve got a necklace of saber- toothed-tiger teeth somewhere that would suit you admirably. Thanks, Hodges, that’ll do.”
The man and the boy nodded, and went out.
“But they really are from the future!” said Henry, who’d been listening to all this with impatience.
“Not now, kiddos,” said Atherton. He took the crowbar and began levering the lid off the smaller box the boy had been carrying. “We don’t have time for games. Not with all my hideous relations here for the mating ritual – sorry, darling, I mean the happiest day of my life. And anyway, you
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