51/73 "Behold me leaving the country!" he said. If I saw I'd take!" "Can you give us a hint ?" "There are caves near the summit of Mount Elgon that would hold the world's revenues. None of them have ever been thoroughly explored. Cannibals and caverns is a combination that might appeal to Tippoo Tib, but there's no likelihood that he buried all that ivory in one place, you know. I suspect the greater part is in the Congo, and that the Germans know its whereabouts within a mile or two." "How did they discover it ?" "Why don't they dig it out ?" "What keeps 'em from turning their knowledge into money ?" We had forgotten our own troubles. |