Chronic Argonauts

This brief story begins with a third-person account of the arrival of a mysterious inventor to the peaceful Welsh town of Llyddwdd. Dr. Nebogipfel takes up residence in a house sorely neglected after the deaths of its former inhabitants. The main bulk of the story concerns the apprehension of the simple rural folk who eventually storm the inventor's "e;devilish"e; workshop in an effort to repay supposed witchery. Nebogipfel escapes with one other person-the sympathetic Reverend Elijah Ulysses Cook-in what is later revealed to be a time machine.