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"Do you happen to know anything about wireless?" inquired Richard one day when, with Achilles prancing far ahead and Boy Blue, Jack Horner, and Rags dashing to keep up with him, the group strode along the beach.
"I ought to," was Walter's smiling response. "I've a brother who is an operator at the Seaver Bay station."
"No! Really?" The exclamations voiced both surprise and admiration. "How old is he?"
"Twenty-two or three."
"Gee! And he can really send and receive messages?"
"He sure can."
"How did he learn?"