Lucy finds a diamond in the Muruti River. Rory and Jam try to keep it secret, but inadvertently Klee, the store clerk who runs to tell everybody awaking the villagers' greed, overhears them.

Rory and Jam find an abandoned elephant calf and decide to keep it at the ranch while they search for its mother. Rory endeavors himself to learn the language of the elephants.

Dean, a bibulous Literature teacher, who urges the boy to write poetry, fascinates Rory. Yet Margo questions his educational methods when Dean expels Rory from the Poetry Club.