“How ‘game’?” asked Ikey eagerly.
“Somebody fooling with a machine. Sparks says the sounds grate just like ‘static!’”
“And that is as clear as mud,” complained Frenchy Donahue.
“Could this unexplained talk be some new German code?” Whistler Morgan asked.
“All Sparks got is in English; but it doesn’t amount to any sense, he says. If it is a code, he never heard the like before.”
“It might be a German code with English words,” put in Al. “One word in code means a whole sentence.”
“I believe you! Wish Sparks would let me put on the harness and listen in on it,” grumbled Belding. “I haven’t forgotten the wireless Morse I learned back there before the war.”
“Go to it, George,” urged Al.
“I wish I knew Morse,” added Whistler. “Get into it, George. Get Sparks to let you try a round with the ‘ghost talk.’ He is friendly to you.”
Thus encouraged, Belding took a chance with the chief of the radio during that very afternoon watch. It was during these hours, it was reported, that the strange and mysterious sounds broke in upon the receiving and sending of the operators aboard the Colodia.