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The Exile of Time - Chapter III: Tugh, the Cripple. Mary Atwood was abducted by a Time-traveling robot in 1777. Alten: "We believed we were acting for the best. But the human mind is so far from omniscient! And this thing was so strange! Alten said, "You have a right to be overwrought, Mistress Mary atwood. But this thing is as strange to us as it is to you" Mary Atwal: "I realize that; or at least I am trying to realize it." Alten smiled at Mary, "We don't know much more than you do about this thing."