Pum will become a Time Patrol agent in place and will marry both Sarai and Bronwen: all loose ends tied up neatly and together. When Everard/Eborix gives Hiram a gold ingot, he will ask for the slave Bronwen and her children, will free Bronwen and will give her a dowry. Pum will spend years at the Academy but will return to this same month as the sailor, soon to be Captain, Pummairam. If Sarai and Bronwen notice any similarity between Eborix's former assistant and their new husband, they will keep quiet. This is a very neatly ended time travel story that leads directly into the opening chapter of The Shield Of Time. When we read on p. 326 that the escaped Exaltationists would be hunted, this could just have meant that the work of the Patrol would continue but in fact there is a direct sequel in PARTs ONE and TWO of The Shield...
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