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.
Now Koku was following just the wrong path. Tom Swift knew it.
"Koku, you madman!" he shouted after the huge native. "Come
back here! Hear me? Back!"
Koku hesitated. He shot a wondering look over his shoulder, but
his long legs continued to carry him down the slope after the
dark-faced stranger.
"Come back, I say!" shouted Tom again. "Have I got to come
after you? Koku! If you don't mind what you're told I'll send you
back to your own country and you'll have to eat snakes and
lizards, as you used to. Come here!"
Whether it was because of this threat of a change of diet,
which Koku now abhorred, or the fact that he had really become
somewhat disciplined and that he fairly worshiped Tom, the giant
stopped. The man with the big shoes disappeared behind a hedge of
low trees.
"Get back up here!" ejaculated Tom sternly.
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