The Dark Enemy

For four years, Professor Matthew Tyler and his students in Psychology had been working on a project called a "Study in the Psychological Factors of Extraordinary Demnstration." The title of the project was deliberately vague, for they had to keep its real nature secret: the search for a genuine telepath—a person who could read the thoughts of others. It would be a great boon to psychotherapy, Tyler and his students knew: a telepath could explore the withdrawn mind sof the mentally ill and find just what it was that was making them withdeaw into various neuroses and psychoses. It would cut months, years off the usual courses of treatment and make it possible to uncover quirks and twists which still defied analysis. The secret had been perfectly kept—until now. Now someonw had revealed it to the papers, and it was spread all over the nation; everyone knew. And Tyler was finished. the businessmen who had generously financed the project would now have no more to to with it, and the college would become a laughing-stock to a public who though all such research....