"No--no water!" yelled Tom, who heard him. "Water will only
make it worse--it'll scatter the blazing gasoline. The feed pipe
from the tank must have burst. Throw on sand--sand is the only
thing to use!"

"I'll git a shubble!" cried Eradicate. "I'll git a sand-
shubble!" and he tottered off.

"Wait, Tom, I'll give you a hand!" cried Ned, as he saw his
chum step away from the end of the auto for a moment, as a burst
of flame, and choking smoke, driven by the wind, was blown almost
in his face. "I'll help you!"

"We've got to be lively, then, Ned!" gasped Tom. "This is
getting hotter every minute! Where's that Koku? He could yank
these boxes out in a jiffy!"

And indeed a giant's strength was needed at that moment.

Ned glanced around to see if he could catch a glimpse of the
big man whom Tom had brought from Giant Land, but Koku was not in
sight.

"Let's have another try now, Ned!" suggested Tom, when a shift
in the wind left the rear of the auto comparatively free from
smoke and flame.

"You fellows had better skip!" cried the expressman, who had
been throwing light packages off his vehicle from in front,
where, as yet, there was no fire. "That powder'll go up in