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“Is that so?” asked the captain. “Then that’s another bond between us, for it’s my most fascinating study. I’ve studied it day and night, awake and asleep.”

At this last word, the boys looked at each other in surprise.

“Aren’t you joking when you say you learned it while asleep?” queried Mr. Layton.

“Not a bit of it,” replied the visitor. “One of the new developments at the naval stations has been a method of teaching students to send radio code messages more speedily by giving them data through their earpieces while they are asleep. I know that sounds suspiciously like a fish story, but it’s an actual fact.”

“How is it done?” asked Bob.

“What’s the idea?” queried Jimmy.

“It came about through the experience of a man who was in charge of a ground school of radio instruction at an air station,” explained Captain Springer. “While he himself was practicing receiving words at the rate of thirty-five a minute, he fell asleep, but the mechanical sender which he was using continued to send messages to him. When he awoke, he claimed that he was able to catch from ten to fifteen more words a minute than he had previously done. His theory was that while he was asleep, his subconscious mind had been trained to the higher speed.”