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someone else in on what he was doing, as he could not do
everything himself, and was sure that he could answer stuff he
could not, and he had checked him out everywhere, and he knew him
more than anyone else there.
    A glance into the main library showed it was
empty, and he listened to the deep silence, and he listened into
the deepest depths of the base, and outer corridor, once again, and
it showed him that there were still only workmen building a new
ceiling in a nearby apartment, replacing an original ceiling, with
modern materials.
    The wires from the electrics had rot and webs
over them, and had been easily broken, and were in bits on the
floor, and he had studied the room and people.
    He had been surprised that spiders actually
existed at the base years before, and must have been in things
brought to Mars.
    “ So what is it? ” he asked Cronenberg,
sitting at his side. “ If you find something you’ll have to let it
out eventually! ”
    “ I think Anders was looking for
valuable diamonds!”
    Orwell gasped and his face showed he was
startled by the final reply, and he sat thinking it over, and then
looked confused, and finally asked, “What makes you think he was
looking for them?”
    “ I’ve found various things … I still
have not proven anything though! But I believe that was why he was
there! And it made him the only person in history to steal a rocket
vehicle, with such an expense, right under their noses!”
    “ Ah! He stole that vehicle, with
another astronaut …”
    “ Who, according to this, they both
managed to cover up where they went, but crashed in the end, and
they even thought he got away with it, which was why they never
searched here for him! They believe he could have been working for
another government and had taken it and its highly advanced
technology for them – as they might have not been able to get hold
of anything on it!”
    Cronenberg removed a document that he had
marked and handed it over to him, and he started looking for
another.
    Orwell read it swiftly, examining things, and
put it down over the table, thinking about the stuff in it, and
Cronenberg handed part of an old newspaper with part of the story
in it, showing where they believed the vehicle had been taken.
    “ What he was after must have been
incredibly valuable?” he silently moaned to himself. “Are you sure
it was diamonds?”
    For a moment he never seemed to accept
the space vehicle had been taken – not believing such a fact. But the
official documents confirmed what had occurred, and he had not seen
such documents and information being wrong.
    “ There is
still a small chance i t could have been something else
though? ” he
finally confessed.
    Cronenberg just nodded in agreement.
    “ Are you saying the diamonds are at
where they crashed?”
    “ That’s what I’m searching for! If only
we can find something on it! We need a location!”
    Cronenberg never said anything of the map he
had found in Anders pocket, and a mention of diamonds on it, and
though he had not found the location on it he decided to try and
keep it that way, if he could.
    “ So you think we should start looking
for it? ”
    “ If we find a more accurate
location! ”
     

Chapter 10
     
    The
Investigation
     
    Cronenberg could not believe the police investigation into
Campbell’s death! The strange way they had approached it was
unbelievable and surreal! And it left him gasping at what would
happen, as they insisted he was killed, and they believed there
were no animals outside the base.
    How could an
animal or anything live there? He and Rosenberg had a hard time
explaining what had happed to them!
    There had been
barely a killing in space or there, and the crime was low, and it
was mainly made up of scientists and other professionals working
there.
    He was baffled!
What the hell had killed the flight engineer, and how had it made
it into his spacesuit?
    There was only
one explanation and it was what had taken them to the