Part 2 (1/2)
But he was not in the least squeae quantities of ivory, and had caused to be slain afterward every one who shared the secret
”How long ago?” asked Monty But natives of that part of the earth are poor hands at reckoning tiht have meant six years, or sixty
It would have been all the sa Tippoo Tib One tiood Noorking here This very good”
”Where do you think the ivory is?” (This from Yerkes)
But the old man shook his head
”As I understand it,” said Monty, ”slaves cao side of Lake Victoria Nyanza Slave and elephant country were approxieneral direction, and there were two routes froamoyo on what is now the German coast, and the other to the north of Victoria Nyanza ending at Mombasa Ask him, Fred, which way the ivory used to co for Fred to interpret He had an uncanny trick of following conversation, his intelligence seeives us about half Africa for hunting-ground, and a job for life!” laughed Yerkes
”Might have a worse!” Fred answered, resentful of cold water thrown on his discovery
”Were you Tippoo Tib's slave when he buried the ivory?” demanded Monty, and the old man nodded
”Where were you at the tiest immeasurable distances toward the West, and the name of the place he mentioned was one we had never heard of
”Can you take us to Tippoo Tib e leave this place?” I asked, and he nodded again
”How much ivory do you suppose there was?” asked Yerkes
”Teli, teli!” he answered, shaking his head
”Too ue,” said Yerkes, ”but”--judicially--”al fro Solomon's mines, El Dorado, Golconda, and Sindbad the Sailor's treasure lands--rolled in one! It's an obviously good thing! All we need is a bit of luck and the ivory's ours!”
”I'll sell you my share now for a thousand dollars--coh-house after that He and Fred nearly pulled the old attendant in two, each claiht to torture him first and learn the secret They ended up without a whole rag between the-gowns The doctor calass and a cocktail appetite, acting locuht the ingredients for cocktails with hi the mixer with a sort of deft solicitude
”There's et details Tippoo Tib believes in up-to-date physic, and when the old rascal's sick he sends for me I offered to mix him an elixir of life that would ive eneral direction of his cache”
”He ought to have fallen for that,” said Yerkes, but the doctor shook his head
”He's an Arab They're shi+ah Muhammedans Their Paradise is a pleasant place from all accounts He advised me to drink my own elixir, and have lots and lots of years in which to find the ivory, without being beholden to him for help Wily old scaramouch! But I had a better card upancient prejudices--doesn't drink or anything like that, but treats his hare that costs hi lax in his old age!
Sent for o to attend his favorite wife--sixty years old if she's a day, and as proud of hi of Jerusaleed she was likely to keep her bed, and did soious laoo to Paradise without special intercession, mainly vicarious I found afor half of nothing They ave him fifty dibs, and promised him oing to die, but that if she'd tell me the secret of Tippoo Tib's ivory I had a mullah handy ould pass her into Paradise ahead of her old man What did she do?
She called Tippoo Tib, and he turned me out of the house So I'irl didn't die--got right up out of bed and stayed up! My rep's all s the Arabs!”