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"You better pick the men to go with me, Colonel," he continued. "You
know them better than I do. We'll need working equipment, too; I have no
idea what we may have to take out of the way, inside."

"I won't call for volunteers," Zareff said. "I'll pick Home Guards; they
did their volunteering when they joined."

"Let me pick one man, Colonel," Anse Dawes said. "I'll pick me."

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They sent a snooper in first; it picked up faint radiation leakage from
inactive power units of overhead lights, and nothing else. The tunnel
stretched ahead of it, empty, and dark beyond its infrared vision. After