But if O'Connor were the spy, nothing made sense. Why would he have disclosed the fact that people were having their minds read in the first place?
Sadly, Malone gave up the idea. But, then, there were other ideas. The other psychiatrists, for instance….
The only trouble with them, Malone realized, was that there seemed to be neither motive nor anything else to connect them to the case. There was no evidence, none in any direction.
Why, there was just as much evidence that the spy was really Kenneth
J. Malone, he told himself.
And then he stopped.
Maybe Tom Boyd had been thinking that way about him. Maybe Boyd suspected that he, Malone, was really the spy.
Certainly it worked in reverse. Boyd…
No, Malone told himself firmly. That was silly.
If he were going to consider Boyd, he realized, he might as well go whole hog and think about Andrew J. Burris.
And that really was ridiculous. Absolutely ridic….