about 1 A.M. in the night of June
The Exile of Time BEGINNING A FOUR-PART NOVEL _ By Ray Cummings _ _ Mysterious Girl _ -LSB- Illustration : _ Presently there was not one Robot , but three ! _ -RSB- -LSB- Sidenote : From somewhere out of Time come a swarm of Robots who inflict on New York the awful vengeance of the diabolical cripple Tugh . -RSB- The extraordinary incidents began about 1 A.M. in the night of June 8-9 , 1935 . I was walking through Patton Place , in New York City , with my friend Larry Gregory . My name is George Rankin . My business -- and Larry 's -- are details quite unimportant to this narrative .