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Then he unscrewed all the bulbs from the chandelier in the library and attached in their places connections with the usual green silk-covered flexible wire rope. These were then joined up to a little instrument which to me looked like a drill. Next he muffed the drill with a wad of felt and applied it to the safe door. I could hear the dull tat-tat of the drill.
At the same time there came from a workshop across a little yard outside the window, a regular sound of hammering that kept a kind of tune: RAT tat-tat, RAT tat-tat, RAT tat-tat, without any variation. 'Well, said my conductor to one of the three young women. 'How do you get on, Minnie? 'We shall be ready by the trying-on time, she replied gaily, without looking up.
There was a quick succession of sharp explosions. "Bombs!" said the M. O. The explosions were followed by the rat-tat-tat tat-tat tat-tat-tat of the machine guns. Instantly they were both on their feet and out in the trench. "I guess Fritzie is trying to put something over on us, being our first night," said the M. O. "I'll get my boys out."
'RAT tat-tat, RAT tat-tat, RAT tat-tat, across the yard. 'He lays in five and twen-ty foot of ground, if he lays in a fraction, said Mr. Omer, pleasantly. 'It was either his request or her direction, I forget which. 'Do you know how my little brother is, sir? I inquired. Mr. Omer shook his head. 'RAT tat-tat, RAT tat-tat, RAT tat-tat. 'He is in his mother's arms, said he.
All traces of his former self seemed to have disappeared. They asked him if he did not remember he had been a Rajah once, and about his journey to Panch-Phul Ranee's country. But he said, No, he remembered nothing but how to beat the drum Rub-a-dub! tat-tat! tom-tum! tom-tum! He thought he must have beaten it all his life.
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