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I couldn't sleep very well, but I fell into a doze, and then I heard the buzzer of the alarm go off. I saw that the drop, showing that the hangar had been entered, had fallen. I got to the window in time to see Koku going toward the shed from his little coop. Then I came to you." "Glad you did," answered Tom. "I didn't think I was sleeping so soundly."
Eradicate Sampson had a mule, Boomerang, of whom he thought almost as much as he did of Tom. Eradicate was a faithful friend and servant, but, of late, Koku, or August, the giant, had rather supplanted him. I must not forget Mr. Wakefield Damon, of Waterfield, a village near Shopton. Mr. Damon was an odd man, always blessing everything.
Still Tom would not think of discharging him, and it was pitiful to see the old colored man try to do things for the young inventor tasks that were beyond his strength. But if Koku offered to help, Eradicate would draw himself up, and exclaim: "Git away fom heah! I guess dish yeah coon ain't forgot how t' wait on Massa Tom. Go 'way, giant.
Tom leaped silently out of bed, and stood for a moment half dazed, so soundly had he been sleeping. "Come on!" urged Ned softly, realizing that his chum had not fully comprehended. "Koku will hold them until we get there. I haven't roused anyone else." "That's right," whispered Tom, as he began putting on his clothes. "I don't want father to know. When did it happen?" "Just a little while ago.
I'll be glad to have you let me know. Here's my card," and thanking the boys for their interest Mr. Whitford passed on. Tom and Ned gave the noiseless airship a test the next day. The craft, which was the stanch Falcon, remodeled, was run out of the shed, Koku the giant helping, while Mr. Swift stood looking on, an interested spectator of what his son was about to do.
While the young inventor was in his bath the giant strode back into the bedroom, out of which Rad had scurried by another door, and proceeded to report the result of his night watch about the premises. He had not much to tell. In fact, after Tom had gone into the house Koku had seen nobody lurking about at all.
This word is an incidental proof of the general correctness of the contention of this chapter that true nationality is a recent product in Japan. The term, literally translated, is "love-country heart"; but the point for us to notice particularly is the term for country, "koku"; this word has never before meant the country as a whole, but only the territory of a clan.
Get those powder boxes out of that cart before they go up! Yank 'em out! They're too much for Ned and me! Quick!" "Oh, of a courseness I will so do!" said Koku, to whom, even yet, the English language was somewhat of a mystery. He dropped the shovel, and, heedless of the thick smoke from the burning gasoline, reached over and took hold of the nearest box.
Then, stooping over, he took a firm grip of the big piece of iron, planted his feet well apart on the deck, and lifted the immense mass in his arms. There was a round of applause from the group of passengers. "Where you want him?" Koku calmly asked of the mate, as he stood holding the anchor. "Blast my marlin spikes!" cried the mate. "I never see the like of this afore!
Lamos was sent back to his own village, a broken and humbled giant. And to this day, in that part of Peru, the great struggle between Koku and Lamos is spoken of with awe where Indians gather about their council fires, and they tell their children of the Titanic fight. "It was part of the plot," said Job Titus when the usual blast had been set off that day, with not very good results.
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