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"Now!" he cried, leaping up in his seat.
He was slammed back as they spun, and he heard the clattering of
her guns before his head cleared. By then, flames were leaping up in
the distance.
Jenny's guns were extruded now and turning on their mounts,
spraying the line of vehicles with hundreds of leaden hammers. She
shook, twice, as she discharged two rockets from beneath her partly
opened hood. Then they were moving forward, and eight or nine of the
cars were rushing downhill toward them.
She turned again in neutral steer and sprang back in the direction
from which they had come, around the southeast corner of the pile.
Her guns were hammering at the now retreating guards, and in the wide
read view mirror Murdock could see that a wall of flame was towering
high behind them.
"You missed it!" he cried. "You missed the black Caddy! You
rockets hit the cars in front of it and it backed off!"
"I know! I'm sorry!"
"You had a clear shot!"
"I know! I missed!"
They rounded the pile just as two of the guard cars vanished into
the tunnel. Three more lay in smoking ruin. The sixth had evidently
preceded the other two out through the passage.
"Here it comes now!" cried Murdock. "Around the other end of the
pile! Kill it! Kill it!"
The ancient guardian of the graveyardЧit looked like a Ford, but
he couldn't be sureЧmoved forward with a dreadful chattering sound and
interposed itself in the line of fire.
"My range is blocked."

"Smash that junkheap and cover the tunnel! Don't let the Caddy
escape!"
"I can't!" she said.
"Who not?"
"I just _can't_!"
"That's an order! Smash it and cover the tunnel!"
Her guns swivelled and she shot out the tires beneath the ancient
car.
The Caddy shot past and into the passageway.
"You let it get by!" he screamed. "Get after it!"
"All right, Sam! I'm doing it! Don't yell. _Please don't
tell!_"
She headed for the tunnel. Inside, he could hear the sound of a
giant engine racing away, growing softer in the distance.
"Don't fire here in the tunnel! If you hit it we may be bottled
in!"
"I know. I won't."
"Drop a couple ten-second grenades and step on the gas. Maybe we
can seal in whatever's left moving back there."
Suddenly they shot ahead and emerged into daylight. There was no