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He called up his office. "Is there a telegram there for me?" he queried, and on being answered in the affirmative he directed his stenographer to read it to him. He turned to MacCandless. "Mr. Terence Reardon will have entire charge of the work of retubing those condensers, and so on," he explained. "I'll give him a letter to you, which will be his authority to superintend the job.
And Terence Reardon laughed the short, mirthless chuckle of the man who knows. "Then," Matt continued, "the money should be spent " "In retubing her condensers," declared the engineer emphatically. "Do that an' do a good job on her, an' she'll have shteam enough for thim fine big ingines av hers on thirty-two ton a day, an' less. An' have a care would ye buy her until she ships a new crank shaft.
He hung up, reached for a telegraph blank and wrote the following message: San Francisco, July 28, 1914. Terence Reardon, Chief Engineer, S. S. Arab, Port Costa, California. Have bought Narcissus. Offer you one hundred seventy-five a month quit Arab now and supervise installation new crank shaft, retubing condensers, and so on; permanent job as chief. Do you accept? Answer immediately.
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