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. 'Nothing happened to it. Look at this.'
He looked at it carefully. ' "Lawful money for all debts public and private." That sounds okay. But who's this joker with his picture on it? And when did they start.printing twenty-dollar treasury notes?'
'Never, in your world. I guess. The picture is of William Jennings Bryan, President of the United States from 1913 to 192l.'
'Not at Horace Mann School in Akron, he wasn't. Never heard of him.'
'In my school he was elected in 1896, not sixteen years later. And in Margrethe's world Mr Bryan was never president at all. Say! Margrethe! This just might be your world!'
'Why do you think so, dear?'
'Maybe, maybe not. As we came north out of Nogales I didn't notice a flying field or any signs concerning one. And I just remembered that I haven't heard or seen a jet plane all day long. Or any sort of a flying machine. Have you?'
,No. No, I haven't. But I haven't been thinking about them.' She added, 'I'm almost certain there haven't been any near us.'
There you have it! Or maybe this is my world. Steve, what's the situation on aeronautics here?'
'Arrow what?'
'Flying machines. Jet planes. Aeroplanes of any sort. And dirigibles - do you have dirigibles?'
'None of those things rings any bells with me. You're talking about flying, real flying, up in the air like a bird?'.
'Yes, yes!'
'No, of course not. Or do you mean balloons? I've seen a balloon
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