"Collect them! Maybe maps too!"
"They've gone insane and they've become diseased," said a man from the Institute, shrinking back in disgust.
"No, not that, not really that. It's something else—They're only very old."
And in the split second of his saying that last word Collins knew what it was, what they had paid with. It was the only thing with which you could buy matter—Time.
THE END