THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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headlight they could see reconnaissance-cars, and contragravity tanks
with 90-mm guns. It swerved slightly to the left, and then the screen
stopped receiving, the telemetered instruments went dead and the robot's
signal stopped.

"Tom," Rodney Maxwell said, "you keep the crowd back. Klem, stay with
the screens; I'll transmit to you. I'm going in to see what's wrong."

He started to give Conn an argument when he wanted to accompany him.

"No," Conn said. "I'm going along. What do you think I went to Terra to
study robotics for?"

His father snapped on the screen and pickup of the jeep that was
standing nearby. "You getting it, Klem?" he asked. "Okay, Conn. Let's go."

Half a mile ahead, at the other end of the tunnel, they could see a