I suppose Mrs. Green gives it all to that horrid Miss Snooper now," said Mrs. Mouse, as she climbed to a shelf and looked at the labels on several jars of jam and jelly that stood there in a row.
The snooper reported visible light ahead; fluoroelectric light from one of the upper passages, and firelight from the pit.
After it had gone a mile without triggering anything, the jeep followed Anse Dawes piloting and Conn at the snooper controls watching what it transmitted back.
The snooper still had its light on and was moving about.
They came to a place even the snooper couldn't enter, choked to the ceiling with dead vegetation, hydroponic seed-plants that had been left untended to grow wild and die.
At length, the snooper emerged into a big cavern, swinging slowly to scan it.
The snooper popped out of the shaft, onto a gallery that had been cut into the solid rock, fifty feet high and a hundred and fifty across, with a low parapet on the outside and the mile-deep crater beyond.
X They sent a snooper in first; it picked up faint radiation leakage from inactive power units of overhead lights, and nothing else.
They sent thesnooper in and, after a while, followed.
He lifted the jeep and started off; the lorry, and the scows and the other lorry followed; the snooper and the bomb-robots went ahead like a pack of hunting dogs.
Anse turned the jeep into a side passage, and Conn recalled the snooper and sent it ahead.
A circle of light appeared in one, growing larger and brighter as the snooper approached the top of the shaft; two more came on as the bomb-robots followed.
The snooperwas drifting aimlessly about, avoiding the parked vehicles.
