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Title: The Time Mirror

Author: Clark South

Release Date: June 3, 2010 [EBook #32670]

Language: English

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The TIME MIRROR

By CLARK SOUTH

[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories December
1942. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed.]

[Sidenote: Here was a strange mirror indeed! It reflected an image all
right, but not an image from the same era in history!]

Pale moonlight spilled through the window and over the wedding gifts
that crowded the little room.

"And this mirror, darling?" Mark Carter asked. "Who sent it?"

A sudden flicker of worry flashed across Elaine Duchard's lovely face.
She bit her lower lip nervously. Pretended to inspect a great silver
punchbowl that stood on a nearby table.

"Who did you say sent the mirror?" her sweetheart repeated.

Still another moment of taut hesitation. At last:

"It's from Adrian Vance, Mark."

"Adrian Vance!"

Mark spat the name as if it were an epithet.

"Sshhh! Not so loud!" A pause. "He's an old friend, dear. I can't forbid
him to send us a present. After all he's just trying to be polite."

The man's brown eyes were smouldering. "Those were fine company manners
he showed off the night you told him you were going to marry me instead
of him!"

Then, savagely:

"I should have knocked out a mouthful of that damned antique dealer's
teeth right then! Of all the gall--threatening you; saying you'd regret
turning him down--"

Again the girl silenced him.

"Adrian always expected to marry me," she reminded. "My refusal broke
him up terribly. He was disappointed. Angry. So he said a lot of things
he didn't really mean. Now he's trying to make up for it."

"I still don't like that damned Vance! He's just the kind of snake who'd
figure out a way to get revenge. Something