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“Must have sounded like a pipe dream when he first told that story,” put in Jimmy.

“So it did,” agreed their visitor. “But he was so earnest about it that the naval authorities entered on a series of tests and found that he was right, and now it’s a regular part of the instruction. Before turning in at night the student adjusts on his head the receivers that are used in the ordinary class. A regular watch is stood through the night by expert operators on the sending key, and throughout the night they send at high speed—about ten words in excess of the student’s ordinary capacity of receiving. It has been found that in his conscious hours on the following day the student is able to receive messages at the rate they were sent to him while asleep.”

“By jinks!” exclaimed Herb, with more energy than he usually showed, “that hits me hard. I’m going to take a hack at it myself.”

“Herb thinks he won’t have to work so hard that way,” chaffed Joe, and there was a general laugh at the lazy boy’s expense.