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  Back on Earth, Formby was working late; January 13th had been both lucky and unlucky for the forces of law and order. Yes, they had located where the Aldebran spy was staying but he had not returned there. They had also found traces of Spartan B in the flat so clearing up one question, where the trace at the laboratory had come from. He had also just discovered that there were now only five families in the frame, and the text message from Bragg told him that the two agents on the Constellation had also discovered this. Formby took out his pen and highlighted the five names that were now of no immediate interest. The names that he had highlighted were Hardin, Blewett, Granger, Peterson and Clayton. Formby now sent five e-mails to the towns where the remaining five families had lived, and asked the local law enforcement offices to provide photographs and details on the five families, they were also requested to speak to the neighbours of the five families and see if they could find out anything from them that could be of use. Formby looked down at the five highlighted names and stared at them for two minutes before coming to a decision, one, because he was very thorough, and two, because he got a feeling in the pit of his stomach, so he sent the same requests to Calvert, Texas and Pendleton, Oregon to check on these five names as well. He did not mention the feeling in the pit of his stomach to anyone, even though it had never let him down before, better to wait and see what results the mail brought in first. From what Agent Divine said about the Hardin family and their neighbours, Formby reckoned that it must be the Pendleton families that were beginning to give him stomach ache, either that or the curry he had had last night in that little Indian curry house two streets away from where he lived was causing the pain in his gut.

  A squad of his agents were keeping a watch on Tirana`s flat from the building opposite, a small economically priced hotel, and he decided to check with them to see if anything was happening, although they would have called if Tirana had showed up.

  "Crosby is anything happening there." Crosby was the senior agent amongst the agents staking out the boarding house. Crosby had been in the force for ten years and enjoyed the life. However, his home life was suffering, not that there was anything left of it. He might just as well have been single like his boss.

  "No, but Morrison is due back in a moment, he went to check on the night guard at the car park along the way. See if he remembers seeing Tirana there."

  "OK, you let me know if anything important comes of it Crosby." Crosby answered. "Yes Sir."

  Formby had decided to call it a night; he was just about to turn his computer off when he changed his mind about telling no one about his gut feeling regarding the two families from Oregon. The two agents out on the Constellation should be told for their own safety, and so he rushed through a message to them on his computer and sent it off. Now he could go home and get some sleep without waking up in the middle of the night and fretting about it, but before he got to the door, Crosby was back on the phone.

  "Morrison has a CCTV disc that shows Tirana getting into his car, the number plate has been given to the regular police force and they are actively searching for the car as we speak Sir."

  "That is great news Crosby; let me know as soon as we hear from them. We need to find out where he is staying, so instruct all of the police stations to send men around to all hotels and guest houses etc. to see if they can locate him."