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There was a rustle in the leaves back of Tom and Ned, and they sprang up in alarm, but they need not have feared, for it was only Koku, the giant, who, with a portable electrical torch, had come to see how they had fared. "Mr. Tom all right?" asked the big man, anxiously. "Yes, and I got some fine pictures. You can carry the camera back now, Koku. I think that roll of film is pretty well filled."
Meanwhile, So Sadamori of Tsushima had established commercial relations with Chosen, and received from thence a yearly consignment of two hundred koku of soy beans, the vessel that carried the staple being guarded by boats known as Tsushima-bune. *The tallies were cards on which a line of ideographs were inscribed.
Next on the list came Mori Terumoto with 2,205,000 koku, and Uesugi Kagekatsu with 1,200,000 koku. The latter two were partisans of Ishida. But direct communication between their forces was difficult, for while the Mori domains covered the nine provinces on the extreme west of the main island, Uesugi's lay on the north of the Kwanto, whence they stretched to the shore of the Japan Sea.
"The way he ran when Koku started after him that time on the Waterfield Road seemed to prove that he didn't want to mix with Koku." "If he or other spies learns that Koku is with the Hercules Three-Oughts-One, it ought to warn them away from the locomotive." This was Ned's final speech before getting into his berth.
Am dat dat big dat big nice man heah now?" asked Rad, feeling around with his bandaged hand; and a smile showed beneath the cloth over his eyes. "I here right upsidedown by you, Rad," said Koku, and his big hand clasped the smaller one of the black man. "Koku yo' yo' am mighty good to me," murmured Eradicate. "I reckon I been cross to yo' sometimes, but I didn't mean nuffin' by it!"
"Koku, you're getting too strong!" exclaimed Tom, as scraps of paper were scattered about the room. "I think I'll give you less to eat." "I am your forgiveness," said Koku humbly, as he stooped over to pick up the fragments. "I did not mean." "It's all right," said Tom kindly. "That's only a big bundle of Sunday papers I guess."
The doctor came in at this moment, with a small medical battery, which completed the restorative work begun by the others. Soon Tom could sit up, though he was still weak and rather sick. "Who brought me out?" he asked, when he had briefly told how the accident occurred. "Koku did," replied Mr. Damon. "I guess none of the rest of us could have lifted the iron shaft from your legs."
You've been doing nothing but take chances since we came on this trip!" exclaimed Ned, admiringly. "All right! Here we go," and he went to relieve Koku at the wheel, while the giant, grinning cheerfully at the prospect of taking part in the fight himself, got out the rifles, including his own. Meanwhile the native battle went on fiercely.
"There he goes now!" hissed Ned, pointing to a big figure that was approaching the hangar. It was undoubtedly that of the giant, and he could be seen, in the dim light, stalking cautiously along. "I wonder where the uninvited guests are?" asked Tom. "Probably in the airship shed," answered Ned. "Koku was after them as soon as the alarm went off, and they couldn't have gotten away.
I was only fooling. You can go as soon as we get to my private proving grounds, if you like. But you'll have to carry those primers, for all the rest of us have our hands full. Only be careful of 'em!" "I I will, Massa Tom." They kept on, and it was noticed that Mr. Damon gave nervous glances from time to time in the direction of Koku, who was carrying the box of powder.
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