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Page 23
And at that instant there broke on Tom's ears a succession of
discordant sounds which seemed to be a combination of an Indian's
war whoop and a college student's yells at a football game.
"Now I wonder what that is!" mused the young inventor as he
hastily arose. "Better solve that problem before I tackle the
aeroplane motor."
CHAPTER VIII
THROUGH THE ROOF
Tom rushed from his private office, and when he reached the
outer door he heard with more distinctness the sounds that had
alarmed him. They seemed to come from a small building given over
to electrical apparatus, and which, at the time, was not supposed
to be in use. It had been Tom's workroom, so to speak, when he
was developing his electric runabout and rifle, but of late he
had not spent much time in it.
"Somebody's in there !" reflected the young inventor, as he
heard yells coming from the open door of the place. "And if it
isn't Koku and Eradicate I miss my guess! Wonder what they can be
doing there."
He crossed the yard between his private office and the
electrical shop in a few rapid strides, and, as he entered the
latter place, he was greeted with a series of wild yells.
"Good volume of sound here, at all events," mused Tom. "Almost
as much as my motor made when I was trying to talk to Mary. Hello
there! What's going on? Is any one hurt? What's the matter?" he
cried, for, at first, he could see no one in the dim light of the
place. The interior was a maze of electrical apparatus.
"Who's here?" demanded Tom, as he advanced.
"Oh, Master! Come quick! Koku 'most dead an' no can let go!"
was the cry.
"Yo' jest bet yo' cain't let go!" chimed in the voice of
Eradicate. "I done knowed yo would git into trouble ef yo' come
heah, an' I'se glad ob it! So I is!"
"What is it, Rad? What has happened to Koku?" cried Tom,
running forward, for though no very powerful current could be
turned on in the electrical shop at this period of unuse, there
was enough to be very painful. "What is it, Rad?"
"Oh, dat big foolish giant, Koku, done got his se'f into
trouble!" chuckled the colored man. "He done got holt ob one ob
dem air contraptions, Massa Tom, an' he cain't let go! Ha! Ha!
Golly! Look at him squirm!" and Rad laughed shrilly, which
accounted for some of the sounds Tom had heard.
Then came yells of rage and pain from the giant, and they were
so loud and vigorous, mingling with Eradicate's as they did, that
it was no wonder Tom was startled. The sounds were heard in the
other shops, and men came running out. But before then Tom had
put an end to the trouble.
One look showed him what had happened. Just how or why Koku and
Eradicate had entered the electrical shop Tom did not then stop
to inquire. But he saw that the giant had grasped the handles of
one of the electric machines, designed for charging Leyden jars
used in Tom's experiments, and the powerful, though not
dangerous, current had so paralyzed, temporarily, the muscles of
the giant's hands and arms that he could not let go, and there he
was, squirming, and not knowing how to turn off the current, and
unable to ease himself, while Eradicate stood and laughed at him,
fairly howling with delight.
"Ha! Guess yo' won't do no mo' spadin' in' Massa Tom's garden
right away, big man!" taunted Eradicate.
"Be quiet, Rad!" ordered Tom, as he reached up and pulled out
the switch, thus shutting off the current. "This isn't anything
to laugh at."
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