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Who Else Could I Count On?

by Manly Wade Wellman

Wellman’s tall-tales character of John the Balladeer has a conversation with an old man who came from forty years in the future to stop a terrible war.
I’ve come back to this day and time to keep it from starting, if I can. Come with me, John, we’ll go to the rulers of this world. We’ll make them believe, too, make them see that the war mustn’t start.
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“Who Else Could I Count On?,” in Who Fears the Devil? (Arkham House, 1963).
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