Tarzan's Secret Treasure Page #2

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- Six days?

- That'd be a tremendous help.

Men help Boy, Tarzan help men. Come.

I don't know how to thank you.

This is Tumbo. He's my friend.

His mother just died from the sickness.

Mother die?

Look at this house on wheels.

It runs and makes noises like an elephant.

Is there an elephant inside?

Well, not exactly an elephant,

but it's 125 horses.

It's an automobile, a truck.

- Truck?

- Horses? Where?

What are horses?

Well, they're like zebras.

They carry all our camp,

and pull the truck a mile a minute.

Truck no good.

One Ubardi spear kill all horses.

No kill elephant. Elephant better.

That's not a gun, Tarzan.

O'Doul was just taking your picture.

Something like these, Mr. Tarzan,

if you'd like to have a look.

Cheetah like pictures.

Come, let's get loaded up.

Yes, just as soon as I get that tank fixed.

M'Hona!

Get the petrol.

Come on, boys. Get in here.

That's good stuff.

Try a nip of whiskey, Mr. Tarzan.

Whiskey bad.

Mr. Tarzan, you're the last man

I'd have taken for a temperance worker.

I'm afraid there isn't much Irish in you.

Your lad's having the time of his life

with that horn, Mr. Tarzan.

Make noise like rhino.

Not so good a noise, I'll wager.

No mechanical contrivance can compete

with the voice of a living creature.

O'Doul smart man.

Thank you, Mr. Tarzan.

Another compliment like that...

and you'll have

a smart corpse on your hands.

There's nothing like nature.

It's the natural creatures,

the little birds and the beasties.

It's them that touches

the cockles of your heart.

That's the drink.

That's what drink does to you.

I'll never touch another drop of drink

as long as I live.

Stop pushing that horn, will you?

When do we come to the escarpment?

Have you any idea?

Pretty soon now. We'll be able to see it

as soon as we get through the woods.

It reaches almost to the sky.

I suppose we'll have to

leave the trucks behind us.

If we had an airplane,

we could fly up there.

Too bad we didn't bring one with us.

I was gonna buy an airplane

when we got to civilization.

I was gonna buy an automobile, too.

A big one, bigger than this one.

I was gonna buy everything.

Look, Tumbo, this is gold.

It buys everything in civilization.

- What's that?

- Gold.

Gold?

- Yes, sir, gold. It buys everything.

- Let me have a look at that.

Look at this.

Where did you get this?

In the river where we swim.

I see. Is there any more of it?

There's lots of it on the bottom.

Lots of it.

What do you do with it?

I use it in my sling.

They're heavier than stones.

Mother says in civilization

you can buy everything with it.

I could buy an airplane with this,

couldn't I?

Yes, I guess you could, son.

Have you told Mr. Elliott

and Mr. O'Doul about this?

No, sir, I haven't.

You know, you shouldn't tell anyone.

In civilization, gold loses its value

if you talk about it too much.

Let's keep this a secret,

just between ourselves.

- Shouldn't I even tell the Professor?

- No.

Then it wouldn't be a secret.

Secrets aren't very healthy

on an expedition, Medford.

Why don't we wait

and discuss this point at the proper time?

Tell you what, son,

you keep this a secret...

we'll buy you an airplane for yourself.

- You will?

- We'll buy you two of them.

Then Tumbo can have one, too, can't he?

It's a secret. I won't tell anyone ever.

Go ahead, blow the horn if you feel like it.

Look, Tumbo, there's the escarpment.

That's where I live.

Juju.

There's no juju if Tarzan wants you there.

That's where you're gonna live, Tumbo,

up there with Tarzan, Jane, and me.

Come on.

Thank you, Tarzan.

My head was spinning there for a moment.

- Escarpment high up.

- Yes, it must be the altitude.

Boy.

Darling, where have you been?

Where did you go?

I've been so worried about you.

You gonna punish me, Mother?

No, darling, not now.

But you must never go away again.

- What happened to you?

- Nothing much.

Here's Tumbo. He's my best friend.

Can't talk very well yet, though.

Happy to know you, Tumbo.

- Friends.

- Friend?

I met him just when the rhino

was going to kill him.

What rhino?

Just before we came in the plague.

The plague?

Tarzan, what happened?

Who are these people?

People?

How do you do?

I'm doing better, ma'am,

thanks to your charming presence.

O'Doul good little man, like Cheetah.

Now don't be comparing me with him.

If this hairy heathen resembles anybody...

it's me wife's second brother

Marcus V. O'Connell.

That's the last bottle of Irish whiskey

between here and Dublin.

What are these horrible things

that Boy's been telling me?

Boy have good time. Little Tarzan.

- My name is Medford. Glad to know you.

- How do you do?

Tarzan's just been telling me

how kind and brave you've been.

We'll never be able to repay you,

so welcome to our home.

We should have been at a loss

without Tarzan.

Now I am up here, I can understand why

I never could find it indicated on any map.

We like to think of it

as being above and beyond maps.

Sort of a world of our own.

I'm so curious,

I must risk being impertinent.

How does such a lovely person with

your obvious background and position...

come to be here?

A compliment is never impertinent,

Mr. Medford.

I came here. Tarzan and I met.

I fell in love with my future husband.

So naturally I stayed.

You must be very happy here.

We are.

Why, this is Utopia.

Look at the wealth

of this country, Professor.

Just standing here you can see

rubber, palm oil, gum, copra.

- We have caviar, too.

- Caviar?

Yes. Mother says that's what you call

fish eggs in your country.

I suppose this area's

very rich in mineral deposits?

I don't really know, Mr. Medford.

It's possible, I suppose.

My husband's a mind reader.

What did he say?

He says he's sure you're very hungry

because he is.

- We are hungry, too.

- Shall we go to the house?

Now then, all of you, look this way, please.

This is going to be a masterpiece.

It'll be out of the fixing bath

in no time at all now.

Boy is having the time of his life.

Just think, he's never seen

a photograph before.

There isn't any need for that sort of thing

in this beautiful, private world you have.

I feel almost like an intruder.

But you're not.

You're a most welcome guest.

We hope you'll stay with us a long time.

There's nothing I'd like better

than to spend the rest of my days here...

but I'm afraid we have to push on.

We've a job ahead of us.

After you've been here a little while...

you'll find those jobs aren't as important

as you thought they were.

Look, everybody's lost their heads.

They're lost all right.

And you can thank

this long-haired scamp here.

What's the matter, Cheetah?

You look awfully funny.

Hey, Boy.

- You want to look through the telescope?

- Yes, sir.

Here.

Here, go ahead.

Do you see the moon?

But I can't see the man in the moon now.

Where's he gone to?

There's no man in the moon.

That's an illusion.

The face you see is made up of shadows...

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