Editing Time Stops for No Mouse (section)

==Plot summary==
At the beginning of the story, the mouse Hermux Tantamoq is a watchmaker in Pinchester, a [[Manhattan]]-like [[metropolis]] inhabited by [[rodent]]s, [[bird]]s, and [[mustelid]]s. He is hired by aircraft-pilot Linka Perflinger (another mouse) to mend her [[wristwatch]]. When the watch is requested, without Linka's permission, by a criminal [[rat]], Hermux refuses to hand it over, and later witnesses Linka's capture by similar rats, who are working on behalf of antagonist Dr. Hiril Mennus. Investigating this, Hermux learns that Mennus, in partnership with sub-antagonist Tucka Mertslin, seeks to patent a rejuvenation formula obtained by Linka's client, Dr. Turfip Dandiffer. Assisted by the [[Mole (animal)|mole]] journalist Pup Schoonagliffen (Mennus in [[disguise]]), Hermux infiltrates Mennus' clinic, but is himself captured; whereupon Mennus places Hermux and Linka in a [[mousetrap]] to die. To maintain control of Tucka Mertslin, Mennus memorizes and destroys the formula; but by an inept use thereof, reduces himself to infancy. Hermux and Linka are thereafter rescued by Dr. Dandiffer's sponsor, Ortolina Perriflot. Some days later, Hermux approaches Linka, intending to propose marriage, but finds her already engaged to Dandiffer. Later, he uses the remnant formula to restore the eyesight of his friend Mirrin Sentrill.