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that Harlan was at the controls. If Harlan does not pull the switch, someone outside the control room will pull it.
Harlan feels that he is being tricked but cannot think of anything he can do. After Cooper has been told everything he recounted in his memoirs that he was told, Harlan is given the countdown and pulls the switch. But when Twissell comes in to congratulate him, Harlan says that the plan did not work. He used the energy cell of the neuronic whip to melt the locking mechanism on the time-gauge, moved it down blindly, and brought it back blindly when the time-thrust was over. Cooper is lost in the Primitive Era. Harlan waits for Eternity to blink out of existence.
Twissell says that they still can restore Eternity as long as they can undo the damage, by going back, for instance, to find Cooper and restore him to the right spot in Time. They must discover when that spot was, through research in Harlan's Primitive history materials, where Cooper might have left a message. An advertisement in the news magazine that Cooper knows Harlan possesses would be a good possibility, Harlan suggests.
Harlan finally discovers the message but will not tell Twissell what it is until he recovers Nos. Twissell does not know about the barrier at the 100,000th but thinks it is impossible. When they go to find Nos, no barrier stops them. En route Twissell speculates about the possibility that Reality Changes might conceal a fear among Eternals of meeting supermen and that the Hidden Centuries might hide such people. Harlan shows him Cooper's message: an advertisement for a market newsletter in front of a drawing of a mushroom cloud. The drawing would mean nothing to 1932. To reinforce the message, the newsletter is called:
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All the
Talk
Of the
Market
The first letters vertically spell "ATOM." Harlan insists that Nos accompany him in the kettle to 1932 (or 19.32, as the Eternals think of it). In a cave there he confronts her with the accusation that she is from the Hidden Centuries. Perhaps she is one of the supermen that Twissell was talking about. Harlan believes that he has been manipulated from his first meeting with Nos. He believes that she whispered to him, just before they made love, the clues that led him to suspect Twissell's plans

 
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