Manse Everard/Eborix the Celt arrives in Tyre in 950 BC. The Time Patrol base has received a blackmail threat to destroy the city. Everard suspects Merau Varagan. If we are reading the Time Patrol series in its original publication order, then we are as yet unfamiliar with Varagan. Everard recounts his first encounter with that individual, which has to have occurred between episodes, and, at the end of this story, he does indeed apprehend Varagan. Thus, like Moriarty, Varagan is introduced and defeated within a single episode. However, there is more. Another incident involving Exaltationists including Varagan had occurred between the first encounter and the Tyre incident and that is recounted in the later written "The Year of the Ransom." Finally, the tracking down of the remaining Exaltationists occurs in The Shield Of Time, PART TWO, which also involves a flashback to a conversation between Everard and Varagan after the arrest of the latter. Varagan has been promoted to the status of a continuing villain.
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Kaor, Paul!
I recall the Exaltationists rebelling against a civilization older than the Old
Stone Age is distant from us.
Ad astra! Sean
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