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Findley knelt down, cut away the pants leg and began bandaging the wound "You were lucky to survive the blast with only a couple of cuts"

"Durenades," Pitt said bitterly 'I should have guessed"

"No sense in blaed "This isn't our line of work"

Pitt looked up "We better get suys arrive"

"They won't try another assault from this direction," Findley said "The blast knocked down the stairway outside

They'd be sitting ducks if they tried scra up ten feet of broken timber"

"Now et the hell out of here," Findley said unhappily

"The news gets worse, and it gets better," Gunn said, dropping froing up the railroad track like a prairie fire They should be here in another seven or eight minutes"

Giordino looked at Gunn suspiciously "How many?"

"I stopped counting at fifteen"

"The opportunity to flee the coop gets even riper," muttered Findley

"Hollis and his men?" asked Pitt

Gunn shook his head wearily "No sign of them" He paused to draw a deep breath and turned to stare at Pitt

terrorist reinforceuards I could just recognize thehtwo otherthe tracks"

"Hala Kamil, bless her," Pitt said with vast relief "Thank God, the old man is alive"