Part I — The Shepherdess of Time
(June, 1930 — or thereabouts)
It was Lord Thornton’s idea, of course. Known to us as “Ruffles,” he announced one morning that he required a first-class Border Collie — blue-ribbon pedigree, the sort of creature that could fetch the newspaper and then lecture on Plato if pressed. And he knew precisely where such paragons we…
