City of Glass by Noel Loomis

Author:Noel Loomis [Loomis, Noel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

HE STRUGGLED to forget that this girl was Carole. From now until this crisis was over, she was his helper—an efficient one, he could see quickly, for she took in the array of tubes with a businesslike glance.

“Where do I start?” she asked gravely.

“You can help me divide this broth. We’ve got to produce, in not more than a week, enough serum to inoculate a hundred Glass-men. We’ll use Pasteur’s first method.”

“I know,” she said firmly. “We’ll prepare full-strength culture and attenuate separate quantities of it with heat, so that after seven days the portion longest exposed will be very weak. Then you’ll start inoculating with the weaker serum first. Then the six-day serum, the five-day, and so on.”

Niles was wide-eyed. “What do you know about it?” he asked.

“I?” Carole asked primly. “I studied bacteriology.”

“Well, I’ll be doggoned!” said Niles.

The rose glow from the walls lighted the girl’s cheeks, and he started toward her. Then he remembered. “All right,” he said briskly. “Start on this rack. Label them. We’ll call this—what day is it, anyway ?” warned.

“About June fifteenth.”

“Call this June fifteenth. We’ll start from there.” He chuckled. “A day or two won’t make much difference.” He put the mask over his face. “But you must be very careful.” His voice was a little muffled. “Don’t get even a tiny drop of the culture on your skin.”

She looked through the slit in her mask. “Is it that bad, Dr. Niles?” she asked archly.

“It is highly virulent.” His voice was crisp. “Any kind of direct exposure will be fatal.”

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