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LIKE an electrical flash it came into the mind of Tom Swift that there was something wrong here-something terribly and dangerously wrong. The drugged giant-nothing less than a drug could account for the helplessness of Koku-the appearance of that strange fruit, the noise behind-all these were warnings not to be ignored.
So, though his first impulse was to hasten to the aid of the giant, when he heard that noise back of him Tom turned.