You were scared half to death at my walls." "Small wonder! I was only twelve; and I dreamed of cannibals for weeks." "Drums! I wonder if any living man has heard a greater variety than I?
What a lot of them! I have heard them calling a jehad in the Sudan.
Tumpi-tum-tump! tumpitum-tump! Makes a white man's hair stand up when he hears it in the night.

I don't know what it is, but the sound drives the Oriental mad.

And that reminds me--I've had them in mind all day--the drums of jeopardy!" "What an odd phrase! And what are the drums of jeopardy ?" asked Kitty, leaning on her arms.

Odd, but suddenly she felt a longing to go somewhere, thousands and thousands of miles away.

She had never been west of Chicago or east of Boston.