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Mr. Paget was most careful that the full contents of the cable did not go to his daughter at Jewsbury-on-the-Wold. He read it three or four times, then he took up a telegraph form and wired to her as follows: --
"_Esperance_ arrived safely. Delay caused by injury to machinery."