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"You handle him. Take a quick look around, and then pull him back. We'll
need him later." It was the first time he'd ever caught himself calling
a robot "him," instead of "it." He thought for a second, and added:
"Give your father and Mr. Vibart the controls for the two
window-washers; you handle the snooper."

He gave more instructions: Yves Jacquemont to turn his bomb-robot right,
Vibart to turn his left; the two lorries to follow the jeep up the
shaft, the scows to follow. Then he leaned back and looked at the
screens that had been rigged under the top of the jeep. A circle of
light appeared in one,[Pg 87] growing larger and brighter as the snooper
approached the top of the shaft; two more came on as the bomb-robots
followed.

"All right; follow me," he said into the inter-vehicle radio, and
started the jeep slowly up the shaft.