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THE TOM-TOMS
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boys what the tom-toms were to-, tom-tom-tom; tom-tom-tom; ing beaten for they said they were- tom-tem-tom-tom."
tom-
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Lympne, near Bythe, in connection "You fool!” I roared. "Get out, with cross-Channel flying. It has or I'll skin you."
advantages, too, in communicating The tom-tomming went on all with ships at sen. breakfast time.
I gave him a strong sleeping
I wont round to It is called the "micro-tay," for draught; and told him I'd back it against all the curses in Africa. Benoli's to offer the thing back; it a scale of tiny fractions of a His metre. So far. it has only been However, he knocked me up in the but he was unconscious. middle of the night; said he hadn't boy seemed to have been ransack-developed by Air Ministry experts closed his oyes, and the tom-toms ing his room; and I scized him and for one highly important but limited were going like fury. "It's this wanted to know what he'd done it servico. damned stone," he declared. "It for. will kill me if I keep it."
"Rot; I wish I had it, curses and
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"I'll sell it to you for five and twenty pounds."
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in France, respecting cross-Channel "Give what back?" I reared. "Who air traffic. It will Onsura th: to?"
quickest possible ordering of life-
I shouted because I could scarce-saving operations in the avont of
tom-tems.
descend to tho Ren.
"So that's your game," I growl.ly hear myself for the noise of the an aeroplane being compelled to ed, with a few courses. "You've faked this yarn up to awindle me with a bit of glasa."
"I swear I've told you the truth," he cried He was
really crying. "You're a good doctor Can't you tell that my illness is no fake 7"
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"Twenty pounds," he urged. "Fifteen ... Ten. You can owe it."
"I expect it's glass," I told him, "but I'll give you a fiver for it; cash down."
No Interference.
"What he take from great joss,"
For this purpose, and for the suo- the boy aid. "From his tom-tom. cour of ships in distress so, the Medicine man come for it."
organisation is provided with fast "Take me to him." I said; and motor lifeboats, he took me to the kitchen. There. was an old native there with a curi The distance between the of white hair over his left temple. Lympre and tho reciprocating "Come outside." I shouted. "station at St. Inglevert is less than The micro-ray can't hear myself speak in here twenty-five miles.
over a greater for the noise of those cursed tom-coull not be used toms."
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The mirror at each end aro set Unless when there is none?... He thinks up in the top of hangars. perhaps it is the tom-tom of his they were fixed with mathematical precision facing ech other, the joss,"
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"Tell him I'll hand him over to the constabulary."
With the precautions taken, The old man laughed, made a motion with his hand as if he were however, and the system securely He took the fiver, handed over
tom-tom. He said installed. the results are perfect. the stone, and went; and then the beating the cursed tom-toma bogan tom-tom-something, but I could not hear for It has the advantage of complete ming; and I went outside
the hurricane of drumming. I felt freedom from interference by any who was doing it, and my head as though my cars would burst; put other wireless operations, no matter boy, Satan, came to ask if I wanted my hands on my head and stagger-bow busy the ether.
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to see
"Make me a cup of coffee, Satan," pantomime, and suddenly the tom-
I told him. "Those cursed' tom-toms ceased; and he held out his toms woke me up. What are they hand and said something.
making that row for?"
"He say," Benoli's boy translat
"Massa, sir," he gasped, "there ed "that what is his is his, and is no tom-tems!"
what is yours is yours, and what is
But I heard them. They would-the great joss's is the great joss's. n't let me sleep.
He say that is why you give it back for to him, for I tell him you very nice
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I put the emerald in the extend-
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The next morning they sent me from the infirmary at six. white anilor. had been brought in the night before; carried by native who saw him fall in the "One of those Curli boys," street. the matron said. "Don't often see them down here. The man's been drinking heavily; complains of noises in the head; seems to have something on his conscience. asked him about it. He muttered that he hadn't a conscience, but if he had there might be! Perhaps he'll tell you."
But he couldn't, because he had just died.
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"Recovered, the blighter," the doctor said. "Took several weeks over it, though. He didn't hear the I went round to Benol's to ask tom-toms, but he saw the emerald! him to come and see if he could Called me a bally fool for parting identify the man-as his sailor; but with it; wouldn't pay me two-ten Benoli seemed to be off his head. for his shares of two lives that I'd "Don't tell him there is no tom-parted with it for... . However, I toms, doctor sir," his head boy charged five pounds extra in the begged. "Makes him madcross. bill! And It doesn't tom-tom in my 5th Feb. You say you hear them, like I say
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But I did hear them; heard them so plainly that, at last, I asked Satan sgain about them. He was a good boy and had been with me for two years.
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