:49:00
Look here. Elephant tracks all over.
:49:03
Here. There. Ruined tea fields all over.
:49:08
They sure did a good job
of ruining this field.
:49:12
Hello, Ruth.
:49:14
Hello.
:49:17
The elephants got in here last night
and trampled a few hundred young plants.
:49:22
- You can see how much you were needed.
- John know I'm back yet?
:49:25
Appuhamy told him first thing this morning.
He's very grateful.
:49:28
He should be.
I was halfway up the gangplank.
:49:30
- Are you coming up to the house later?
- As soon as I get cleared away here.
:49:34
When you speak to John,
would you do me a favor?
:49:36
Don't tell him I sent for you.
:49:38
Let him think it was your idea,
that you heard about the accident and came.
:49:42
Dick Carver to the rescue?
Okay, Ruth. I understand.
:49:46
Thank you, Dick.
:49:48
- I'll see you at the bungalow.
- My regards to the patient.
:49:57
- Come on, boys. What's holding us up?
- Need more men. Not enough.
:50:01
Get them.
:50:03
- Patrols were on the job, John.
- What were they doing?
:50:06
Relax, man.
You couldn't check on them from your bed.
:50:10
They've all been alerted.
They'll stay that way.
:50:12
What am I, a blasted contortionist?
:50:15
What do we do about the young plants
before the monsoons?
:50:18
We put back more than a third this morning.
:50:20
How?
:50:21
We stopped the pickers
and put them to planting.
:50:23
You stopped the pickers?
:50:25
It makes sense.
Nothing much to pick anyway, till the rains.
:50:27
Everything's drying up.
:50:29
There's been a rule here for 50 years.
Pick while there's flush to pick.
:50:32
Weather and elephants don't change it.
:50:34
You put those pickers back to work.
:50:36
Okay, John.
:50:42
You're giving the orders.
:50:52
- What's this?
- Your lunch. Cold chicken and fruit salad.
:50:56
The menu said roast pork.
:50:58
I thought it was too heavy for you
in this weather.