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them for himself at some
point.
    All the shuttles in their sectors had left as
the day went on, carrying out their first scan of Mars, as the sun
moved over their sectors of Mars, and Cronenberg had finally left
to do his, and had sat confused in his seat, examining facts over
and over, and realized that Orwell had to have let out the
information about the diamonds and the map out, and he could not
fully realize what he had intended to do and if he had even
deliberately told them to carry out some elaborate plan, but if he
had was he crazy doing it or had he made a mistake in depending on
Commander Eagle?
    He was surprised when Orwell approached him,
when the rest of the crew were occupied, and started apologizing
for his mistake, and for what Eagle had done, and Cronenberg
realized that he had known the shuttle commander before they had
gone to Mars, and he recalled it and that they were both connected
to other influential people, and at the base.
    “ What was your agreement?” he asked,
confused at what the situation was.
    “ Well, he is a distant relative of
mine!” he replied, surprising Cronenberg, and he watched his face
and saw his resemblance.
    Orwell rested against a wall, and looked at
him.
    “ I told him only about there being
diamonds and we were searching for them! I figured we would have a
better chance of finding it, as for starters we only cover one
small sector of the area of Mars being checked.”
    “ You’re correct there! We will have to
search through all the stuff recorded …”
    “ Exactly!” he swiftly replied. “And if
we’re not able to find it on the recorded stuff we’ll not get it!
But now all of them are searching with their detection equipment,
which can’t be used on the map, and could very well spot something
…”
    He realized that it was a good point and that
they could all together detect something, and their chances of
finding them alone were low, and he was sure the method the
scientist that originally found them had used to get them with the
satellite were unknown.
    He thought of how long it would take to map
the entire world and rested back into his seat, and he wondered
what would happen, and if he had really blown it, giving the
information Orwell and to every astronaut there, and he realized
that Orwell could have made a mistake and that he should have had
them looking for something else, and he realized that it was Eagle
that had ruined it and he was sure he never realized what he was
doing.
    He thought over what he had said and realized
that Eagle had only known the diamonds were there, and could be
found, but he had found the scientist’s diary, and Cronenberg
recalled that there had been other libraries at the base, but small
ones and were not for the public, and he recalled what he had said
and that the diary said it was on the map and he wondered what
information was in the diary and wondered if it gave how the
scientist had located the diamonds on the satellite.
    Cronenberg had searched the map repeatedly
for the clue, after he had read a mention of it on Anders’s wife’s
letter and he decided to try to find it later and started searching
for information on the scientist and other scientists of that time,
on his computer, and how they might have hidden it away.
     

Chapter 16
     
    The Missing
Shuttle
     
    Cronenberg was almost asleep when an urgent
communication was received and he partially grasped one of the
pilot’s urgent voices and he rapidly realized it was something
important and started to comprehend what it was to do with!
    “ Our mission has been cancelled!”
Lyndon, the pilot, called out.
    “ What?” he moaned.
    “ For the moment! One of the shuttles
has just vanished, and they’re starting to search for
it!”
    “ Whose shuttle?” he called
back.
    “ Wait a minute! I’ll ask! Whose
shuttle? It’s Commander Eagle’s shuttle!”
    Cronenberg gasped and jumped up and saw all
their faces lit up, after Eagle’s name was mentioned, and