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textbook.  “Right.  It looks
like by 1890, the United States had acquired all of Mexico as territories.” 
At this point, he flipped through a few more chapters.  This textbook gave
a new map every time the United States gained foreign territory.  He found
the next map and announced, “Get this:  In 1914, instead of the Great War,
there was a war with Great Britain against Germany, but in this one the United
States allied with Germany.  When the war ended, Germany took over Britain
and her overseas colonies except for Canada, which the United States
received.” 
    “All right, look,” said Billy, a bit irritably.  “It
seems to me that we know now where history changed, even if I’m not quite clear
how avoiding the Civil War leads to war with Britain-”
    “That wouldn’t have been the only change there was. 
Hopkins told us that there would have been several other changes, too, along
the timeline.  But we only need to change the first one back, because the
first change made it so that the right conditions existed for the rest of the
changes,” Rose said.
    “Yeah, fine, whatever,” Billy said, with a shrug. “My point
is, we’re done now.  We don’t need to debate about the ins and outs of the
new world history because we’re about to change it back anyway.  We just
need to--”
    “Hey guys,” Julie said from over by the window.  “We’ve
got a problem.”  She reached into her pocket to find her Dominus
Temporis.        
    “What’s wrong?” Tim asked.
    “We’ve got three police cars coming at us from a block
away,” Julie said.
    “Seriously?  Are you sure?” Billy asked.
    “Assuming that cars with flashers on top and the word
‘Police’ written in big letters on the side are still police cars in this
timeline, then yes, I’m sure.”

Chapter 3
    Digging
     
    “They’re definitely onto us,” said Rose, her voice wavering.
    “That or the antique store is being robbed,” registered Tim,
as the cars pulled closer.
    “We’ve got to time-jump, right?” Billy asked.  “Can we
go back to, say, one year ago?  We probably wouldn’t have been wanted for
treason yet.”
    “I think most of what’s in here would have been here then,”
said Rose.  The teens jumped back from the window and drew the blinds as
the cars stopped across the street.
    “You should be the one to picture this place last
week…  You’d know a good time when they wouldn’t be in the room, and we’d
have been in school, so we don’t run into ourselves in town” said Julie. 
There was a harsh knock at the front door of the shop.  They heard a
muffled response from Uncle Patrick, but didn’t want to stick around to hear
the rest of the confrontation.
    “Sure,” said Rose as Julie handed her one of the two Domini
Temporis that they had.   Rose cringed.  She had never been the
one who had controlled the Dominus before. She replaced the nerves apparent on
her face with a steely frown of concentration as she received the round
metallic microchip.  The Dominus would allow Rose and anyone she was
touching to travel back in time to any place and time where a chosen object had
been.
    As they linked hands, Rose closed one hand around the
Dominus, touched a nearby bookshelf, and squinted in concentration. 
    “Did it work?” Rose asked.  Most of the times that Tim
had time-travelled, he had also changed location, but now, they were still in
the same library-like room in the upstairs of the antique shop.
    Tim took a look around the room.  “It must have,” he
noticed.  “Those books we got down aren’t sitting on the floor anymore,
they’re on the bookshelf.  And look, there’s no newspapers over there,
and…”
    “And my cell phone says it’s 8 o’clock in the morning,”
Billy said, with an air of finality.  “I guess they do change
automatically when we travel through time.  It makes sense, though, ‘cause
I have mine set to automatically sync the date and time over the