" After they implored for Dumbledore to halt the death of an innocent man, he suggested that Hermione use her Time-Turning necklace device (with three turns) to spare "more than one innocent life" - she and Harry would retrace their steps by going back three hours in time to repeat the events of the night and positively alter them.[Note: Dreiser based his story upon the sensational Chester Gillette and Grace Brown 1906 murder case in the state of New York...We might just do it!Agreeing on the plan, an immaculately-uniformed Mireau visits the front""s war zone, in a dramatic change of scene.But after a short stint, he is laid off ("last in, first out").So he crisscrosses the country to find steady work.He travels by steamer down the East Coast, across the Lower Gulf states and the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans (where no jobs are available), and hen by train North to Oshkosh (and Lake Winnebago) in Wisconsin.He amuses them with his country manners, awkwardly carrying a cage of home-ing pigeons (his "little-feathered friends") and continually fumbling with his hat in his hands.