Will threw it to Monty, who caught it.
"He told me this Schillingschen had searched the whole country over for the stuff--had it straight from Schillingschen's boys--I dare say you know how Courtney can make a native tell him all he knows.
Schillingschen, he said, had eliminated pretty nearly all the likely places until Mount Elgon was about all there is left.

Courtney said, too, that there were always so many thousands of elephants near Elgon that Tippoo Tib probably gathered a harvest there.

We discussed probabilities, and agreed it wasn't likely he would carry the stuff far in order to hide it.

It seemed likely to both of us, too, that if the quantity the old man hid was anything like what rumor says, then there were probably half a dozen hiding-places, not one.

Most of the stuff may be in the Congo Free State, and we'll do well to leave that to Leopold of Belgium and his pet concessionaires.