Six A.M
The Government would never condone the deal Lawrence was contemplating -- the Applied Atomics Corporation was nearly insolvent , the BEB psis were investigating it ... . Black tossed fitfully on the bed , seeking sleep desperately , seeking to escape the black night pressing in , to evade the imagined -- or was it real ? -- probing minds of service psis . Six A.M. . He almost forgot the fears that had assailed him an hour before . He realized then that in the last few minutes or seconds or however long the latest transient phantasm had been in his mind he had dreamt of his broker pacing a dimly-lighted chamber , muttering , `` The man 's out of his mind . Economic instability , that 's certain .