 What kind of area is Elsby?
In his room at the Elsby Commercial Hotel, Tremaine opened his luggage and took out a small tool kit, used a screwdriver to remove the bottom cover plate from the telephone. I'm set up in Elsby. Project Officer for the hyperwave program—he's been on my neck day and night. Hyperwave is my baby, remember? And since it seems to be pinpointed in your home area—" "You don't have to justify yourself. Now I want answers, not questions! Tremaine left the hotel, walked two blocks west along Commerce Street and turned in at a yellow brick building with the words ELSBY MUNICIPAL POLICE cut in the stone lintel above the door. In a back room Tremaine said, "To everybody but you this is just a visit to the old home town. Tremaine covered the discovery of the powerful unidentified interference on the high-security hyperwave band, the discovery that each transmission produced not one but a pattern of "fixes" on the point of origin. It showed a set of concentric circles, overlapped by a similar group of rings. "I think what we're getting is an echo effect from each of these points of intersection. "The point is this, Jess: we think we've got it narrowed down to this section. "How long's he lived here in Elsby?" He still walks in town every Wednesday ... or he did up till yesterday anyway." They used to raise cain in the other drug store...." Hull are back in the streets playin' with matches by now.
 Rural and old-fashioned
 Rural and old-fashioned  Urban and busy  Flashy and rich  Run-down and dirty