"Master!" hissed Koku again. "The big feet!" The fellow must
have seen Koku's face and understood the giant's expression. In a
flash he turned and leaped out of the roadway. The sidehill was
steep and broken here, but he went down the slope in great
strides and with every appearance of wishing to evade the two in
the motor-car.

The giant's savage war cry followed the fugitive. Koku leaped
from the moving car. Tom yelled:

"Stop it, Koku! You don't know that that is the man."

"The big feet!" repeated the giant. "Master see the red mud
dried on Big Feet's boots? That mud from Master's garden."

Again Koku uttered his savage cry, and in strides twice the
length of those of the running man, started on the latter's
trail.



Chapter VIII

An Enemy in the Dark


The situation offered suggestions of trouble that stung Tom to
immediate action. The impetuousness of his giant often resulted
in difficulties which the young inventor would have been glad to
escape.