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diff --git a/76871-h/76871-h.htm b/76871-h/76871-h.htm index 2b151b4..fa260d0 100644 --- a/76871-h/76871-h.htm +++ b/76871-h/76871-h.htm @@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ herself!</blockquote> <p>Taylor was led to the other end of the room and Sills’ trembling finger pointed out another airtight case containing a lump of metal of a gleaming yellow that sparkled and glistened.</p> -<p>“That, my friend, is ammonium oxide (NH4₂O), formed by passing _absolutely dry_ air over free ammonium metal. It is perfectly inert (the sealed case contains quite a bit of chlorine, for instance, and yet there is no reaction). It can be made as cheaply as aluminum, if not more so, and yet it looks more like gold than gold does itself. Do you see the possibilities?”</p> +<p>“That, my friend, is ammonium oxide (NH4₂O), formed by passing <em>absolutely dry</em> air over free ammonium metal. It is perfectly inert (the sealed case contains quite a bit of chlorine, for instance, and yet there is no reaction). It can be made as cheaply as aluminum, if not more so, and yet it looks more like gold than gold does itself. Do you see the possibilities?”</p> <p>“Do I?” exploded Taylor. “It will sweep the country. You can have ammonium jewelry, and ammonium-plated table-ware, and a million other things. Then again, who knows how many countless industrial applications it may have? You’re rich, Walt—you’re rich!”</p> -<p>“_We’re_ rich,” corrected Sills gently. He moved towards the telephone. “The newspapers are going to hear of this. I’m going to begin to cash in on fame right now.”</p> +<p>“<em>We’re</em> rich,” corrected Sills gently. He moved towards the telephone. “The newspapers are going to hear of this. I’m going to begin to cash in on fame right now.”</p> <p>Taylor frowned, “Maybe you’d better keep it a secret, Walt.”</p> @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ herself!</blockquote> <p>But Hornswoggle had drawn himself up in icy hauteur. “It remains to be seen whether the word of a gangster is to be taken before the word of one, who, I may truthfully say, was, in his time, one of the most eminent members of the great—”</p> -<p>“Quiet, both of you,” shouted Taylor, waving the gun threateningly. “I’m calling the police and you can annoy _them_ with your stories. Say, Walt, is everything all right?”</p> +<p>“Quiet, both of you,” shouted Taylor, waving the gun threateningly. “I’m calling the police and you can annoy <em>them</em> with your stories. Say, Walt, is everything all right?”</p> <p>“I think so!” Sills returned from his inspection of the laboratory. “They only knocked over empty glassware. Everything else is unharmed.”</p> @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ herself!</blockquote> <p>He shrugged his thin shoulders and, taking off his hat, abstracted a few folded sheets of paper from the sweatband. It was the work of five minutes to deposit them in a vault, and see the immensely strong steel door swing shut. He felt relieved.</p> -<p>“I wonder what they’ll do,” he muttered to himself on the way home, “when they try to follow the instructions on the paper they _did_ get.” He pursed his lips and shook his head. “If they do, there’s going to be one heck of an explosion.”</p> +<p>“I wonder what they’ll do,” he muttered to himself on the way home, “when they try to follow the instructions on the paper they <em>did</em> get.” He pursed his lips and shook his head. “If they do, there’s going to be one heck of an explosion.”</p> <p>Sills arrived home to find three policemen pacing leisurely up and down the sidewalk in front of the house.</p> |