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that it was impossible to lift it again after it settled to the floor of
the gallery, and they all piled out to fight on foot. Sommers and his
gang from the number one lorry were also afoot; their vehicle had been
disabled. He saw them lifting wounded into one of the scows.

They blew up the light-service robot to clear a nest of pirates who had
taken cover ahead of them. They sent the robo-janitor up a side passage
and exploded it in a missile-launching position on the outside of the
mountain; that produced a tremendous explosion. They began running out
of cartridges, and had to stop and glean more from enemy casualties.
They expended their last bomb-robot, the restaurant server, to break up
another pirate resistance point.

At length he found himself, with Sylvie and her father and one of the
Home Guardsmen from Sommers' lorry, lying behind an aircar somebody had
knocked out with a bazooka, with two dead pirates for company and a
dozen distressingly live ones ahead behind an improvised barricade.