Mr. Keating laughed heartily.
"You won't buy very much on the wages you are getting here at present," he said.
"No, sir; not much, but we are not always going to work for the wages we are now drawing."
"You are right you are not. Let me ask how you would get the waste gas to the gas engines. Have you thought of that?"
"Yes, sir. Pipe it."
Mr. Keating rose, and stepping to the door of an adjoining office, called:
"Mr. Phillips, will you be good enough to come in here?"
The chief engineer of the mills entered the room in response to the summons.