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!