arms over his head when he made his dive through the window, and
he really was very little injured.

"Come in here," repeated Tom. "Fix something over this broken
window so that I can take my bath. And then go and put something
on that scratch. Don't you know better yet, than to cross Koku
when he is excited?"

"Dat crazy ol' cannibal!" spat out Rad viciously. "I'll fix him
yet. I'll pizen his rations, dat's what I'll do."

"You wouldn't be so bad as that, Rad!"

"Well, mebbe not," said the colored man, crawling in through
the bathroom window. "It would take too much pizen, anyway, to
kill that giant. Take as much as dey has to give an el'phant to
kill it. Anyways, I's bound to fix him proper some time, yet."

These quarrels between Eradicate and Koku were intermittent.
They almost always arose, too, because of the desire of the two
servants to wait upon Tom or his father. They were very jealous
of each other, and their clashes afforded Tom and his friends a
good deal of amusement.

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