I shook my head slowly, frowning. "You couldn't really call it a hunch. Just a bare possibility. But I noticed on a news report the other day that Isaac Grogan--you know, 'the Millionaire Mayor of Memphis,' released about a month ago, bribery and corruption sentence--anyway, he's taken up temporary residence in Palm Beach." The boss rubbed his chin. "As I recall, you did an exposé series on him four or five years ago. Corroborated by official investigation, and Grogan was later sentenced. You thinks he's after revenge?" I raised a hand warningly. "Now, hold on--I said it was a bare possibility. All I know is that Grogan hates my guts--or might think he has some reason to. I know that Grogan is in Palm Beach, and that I've been under telenosis attack. There's no necessary connection at all." "No," Newell said. "But it's something to start on." He looked at his wrist watch. "Tell you what. It's nearly noon now. Let's go out for lunch, and while I'm thinking, you can tell me all you remember about telenosis." * * * * * It's altogether possible that you may have no more than barely heard of telenosis--its technical details are among the most closely guarded secrets of our time. So I'll go over some of the high spots of what I told Newell. Mind you, I'm no authority on the subject, and it has been a full seven years since I have done any research on it. However, I learned all I know from Dr. Homer Reighardt, who, at the time, was the world's outstanding authority. Telenosis, nowadays, is confined almost exclusively to use in psychiatric hospitals and corrective institutions. It's used chiefly on neurotics. In cases of extreme dementia, it's worthless. In fact, the more normal you are, the more effective the telenosis. Roughly--without going into any of the real technicalities--it's this way: Science has known for a long time that electrical waves emanate from the brain. The waves can be measured on an electroencaphalograph, and vary with the physiological and psychological condition of the individual. Extreme paranoia, for example, or epilepsy, or alcoholism are accompanied by violent disturbances of the waves. Very interesting, but.... It wasn't until 2037 that Professor Martin James decided that these brain waves are comparable to radio waves, and got busy inventing a device to listen in on them. The result, of course, was telenosis. The machine that James came up with, after twenty years of work, could not only listen in on a person's thoughts, which are carried on the brain waves, but it could transmit messages to the brain from the outside. "Unless the waves are in a state of disturbance caused by alcohol or insanity or some such thing?" Newell commented. I nodded. "The word 'telenosis' comes from 'hypnosis,' doesn't it?"