So the man called Calder had thought.
The phone in the motel room where the agent was staying rang. It was the district director of the FBI.
The agent wanted to speak first.
"As soon as I finish my report, you can have my resignation."
"Your resignation won't be required."
"Don't give me the official bullshit. I know I'm going to Anchorage or somewhere I can't live because of this thing."
"You don't know that. We don't know it. I don't know it. Just continue your work."
"You can't tell me that the agent who loses the first government witness in ten frigging years isn't going to get canned. C'mon, I'm not Bo Peep."
"You're also not the first. We lost two others this morning," said the District Director. "This whole thing may be coming apart."
In a sanitarium called Folcroft on Long Island Sound, giant computers received the details of the Fairview incident and the two others. Because of the designs of these machines, the printouts could only be gotten at one office. It had one-way windows, a large sparse desk, and a terminal which could be operated only through a code. The Fairview incident was the last to clack out of the machine. A gaunt man with a lemony face read all three reports. Unlike the district director in Oklahoma, Dr. Harold W. Smith did not think ten years work might be falling apart. He knew it was.
CHAPTER TWO
His name was Remo and the hotel guest wouldn't let him go. Was Remo aware that he and his Oriental friend probably produced an incredible amount of Theta waves and functioned to a great degree at the Alpha level?
Remo didn't know that. Would the guest please pass the salt?
The guest was sure that Remo and his elderly Oriental friend functioned at these states, otherwise how could Remo explain yesterday. How?
The salt.
Certainly, the salt. There was no other explanation, said Dr. Charlese, Averill N., as in Averill Harriman except he wasn't related to the wealthy and famous railroad family, just a poor parapsychologist trying to let people know of the great powers locked within humanity. He had a card: