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  “How heavy is it?”

  “Just a hair over thirty pounds. I'd guess it's worth a little over two million dollars. Of course, there will be taxes and all. Still, you should be comfortable.”

  “Two million dollars… comfortable. You call that comfortable?”

  He nodded. “Like Frank said, you saved the universe. It's the least I can do. Now hit F1WS or we'll be here all day.”

  “Will I see you again?”

  A long pause. “I don't think so. But there's a slight chance. I've started to work on extrapolating time predictions, moving the mass ahead of the moment.”

  “Seeing into the future? But they said it couldn't be done because it hasn't happened yet.”

  “And it can't. Yet. But we can see down a road before we walk down it, can't we? And I was looking down your time road recently. You have a very interesting life ahead of you, from what I can see.”

  “If you can see what's coming I have a question.”

  “No. Not yet, maybe not ever. Now hit the keys and go get Frank. You have a lot to do.”

  And Dorso hit the keys. He rode the flash of light and was back under his porch and then out walking to get Frank, who was about to have a very good day, before he realized that he still didn't have an answer to the one question that was really bothering him.

  Would Karen Bemis go out with him again?

  About the Author

  Gary Paulsen is the distinguished author of many critically acclaimed books for young people, including three Newbery Honor books: The Winter Room, Hatchet and Dogsong. His novel The Haymeadow received the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award. Among his Random House books are Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day; The Quilt (a companion to Alida's Song and The Cookcamp); The Glass Café; How Angel Peterson Got His Name; Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats; Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books; The Beet Fields; Soldier's Heart; Brians Winter, Brians Return and Brian's Hunt (companions to Hatchet); Father Water, Mother Woods; and five books about Francis Tucket's adventures in the Old West. Gary Paulsen has also published fiction and nonfiction for adults, as well as picture books illustrated by his wife, the painter Ruth Wright Paulsen. Their most recent book is Canoe Days. The Paulsens live in New Mexico and on the Pacific Ocean.

  Published by Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children's Books

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  Copyright © 2005 by Gary Paulsen

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  eISBN: 978-0-307-54810-8

  August 2006

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  Other Books By This Author

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  Dedication

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