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"Hey, there's a lot of junk in here in a couple of baskets at the
converter. Say I chuck one out to him; what would he do?"

"Grab it and take it away, like he's taped to do."

"Okay; wait a minute."

They couldn't see the archway to the power plant, or even the robot that
had Matsui penned up, but after a few minutes they saw it soaring away,
clutching a big wire basket full of broken boxes and other rubbish. It
headed[Pg 124] for the mutually repelling swarm of robots around the
door that wouldn't open for them. Conn and Anse and Jerry ran toward the
rear, joined by Clyde Nichols, who popped up from behind a pile of
spools of electric wire. They made it just before the coffin-shaped
thing that had carried off the aircar came over to investigate.

"You want to be careful back there," Matsui told them, as they started