ook to put in
practise the treachery they had so long planned, there was a secret
fund of hugely welcome money at the disposal of the out-numbered
defenders of British East, its source will no doubt be accounted for,
as well as its expenditures, to the proper people, by the proper
people, at the proper time and place.

But those who are curious, and are adept at unraveling statistics might
learn more than a little by studying the export figures relating to
ivory during the years that preceded the war. They say statistics
never lie; but those who write them now and then do, and it may be
that camouflage was understood and went by another name before the
great war made the art notorious and popular.

Some of the ivory in that huge hole was ruined by the heat that still
lives in Elgon's womb. Some of it was splintered by the fall when
yoked slaves tossed it in. Rats had gnawed some of it, to get at the
soft sweet core.

But the men who keep the keys of the bursting ivory vaults by London
docks could tell how much of it was good, and what huge stores of it
reached them. For some strange reason they are not a very talkative
breed of men.

We did not haul the ivory out ourselves. That would have been too
public a proceeding. But any one who attempted during the years that
followed nineteen hundred to make a trip to Elgon can truthfully inform
whoever cares to know, how jealously and wakefully the Protectorate
Government guarded those lonely trails. And there are folk who saw the
hundred-man safaris that came down from that way every week or so,
carrying old ivory, said to be acquired in the way of trade. But that
is really all government business, and looks impertinent in print.

We did not make enough money to establish Monty in the homes of his
ancestors at Montdidier Towers and Kirkudbrightshire Castle; for that
would have been an unbelievable amount; it takes more than mere
affluence to keep up an earldom in the proper style. But we all got
rich.

Brown received his cattle back after a long wait, as well as a present
of money that set him up handsomely for life. And certain dissatisfied
Masai were fined so many cows and sheep for raiding across the border
that they talked of migrating out of spite to German East--but did not
do it.

A youthful red-headed assistant district superintendent of police was
unaccountably alert enough to round up and bring into court more than a
dozen natives who had preache