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Gunn didn't reply He stared at the rough gravel flashing past as though it were hurtling by at jet speed a thousand meters below

"Now!" shouted Pitt

They hit the ground on the run, skidding and sliding but so, There was no hesitation, no pause to catch their breath They ran alongside the train and straight up the steps of the crushing-mill's stairs, and didn't stop until they both stumbled, then tripped over the threshold and crashed to the floor inside

The first thing Pitt saas Giordino standing above hiun in a muzzle-up position

"I've seen you kicked out of some pretty raunchy pubs," Giordino said in a dour voice, "but this is the first time I've ever seen YOU tossed off a train"

"No great loss," said Pitt, co to his feet "It didn't have a club car"

The gunfire Yours or theirs?"

"Ours

"Company on the way?"

"Like mad hornets out of a vandalized nest," replied pitt "We don't have e"

"They'd better be careful where they aiet broken"

"An advantage we'll play to the hilt"

Findley had finished tying the guard and the two ether in the center of the floor, and he stood up "where do you want them?"

"They're as safe as anywhere there on the floor," answered Pitt He looked swiftly around at the cavernous interior of the building with the crushing rab whatever equipment or furniture you can lift and convert the ore crusher into a fort Rudi and I will delay the as we can"

"A fort within a fort," said Findley