Category: Romance
On the day following the tribal festival when the white girl had so astonished the heathen priests in the village called Ackra-Ackra a runaway ship's apprentice emerged from his half-caste landlady's wooden lodging-house. He was off for a stroll, for the tenth time or so, over...
It was close on midnight when the _Bird of Paradise_ dropped anchor off the coastal township of Tumba-Tumba. It was the Papuan kidnapper's native home on the coast of New Guinea...
11. CHAPTER XI--KIDNAPPEDOn the night when Rajah Koo Macka sat in old Everard's bungalow parlour and successfully threw dust in the ex-sailor's eyes and opium and rum in Gabrielle's tea, the Papuan half...
8. CHAPTER VIII--HEATHEN LAND"Gabby! Gabrielle!" He shouted. Then, wondering why on earth the girl did not reply, he struggled to his feet, opened the door and went up the three steps that led into her bedr...
10. CHAPTER X--THE WINE-DARK SEAS"Must see the old man first, you know," said Ulysses, as he chuckled over the immense possibilities that loomed before his all-embracing vision. He saw money as well as wild adv...
2. CHAPTER II--THE CALL OF THE BLOODThe day after the young apprentice had played his violin to the shellbacks and listened to the Papuan Rajah's eulogies over his playing, old Everard was sitting in his bungalow...
4. CHAPTER IV--THE SOUL'S RIVALAs soon as Gabrielle Everard had paddled across the lagoon and passed from Hillary's enraptured sight she pulled her little craft up on the sandy beach, hid it amongst the tall...
9. CHAPTER IX--THE HOMERIC SPIRITWhen Hillary awoke in the morning he found Everard in a most sober condition. "Boy, thank God you're here; I'm down in the mouth. I've been thinking." Then the old man looked wi...
6. CHAPTER VI--THE DERELICTHillary was impatient during the interminable hours that passed ere he saw Gabrielle again. "Don't worry me, Mango," he said, as the pretty native girl stood on the verandah and...
1. CHAPTER I--ROMANCE'S FIRST THRILLOn the day following the tribal festival when the white girl had so astonished the heathen priests in the village called Ackra-Ackra a runaway ship's apprentice emerged from his...
7. CHAPTER VII--WHEN THE STARS DANCEDThe day after Hillary and Gabrielle's love tryst on the derelict off Bougainville old Everard sat in his bungalow rubbing his hands with delight. He had been over the slope in R...
5. CHAPTER V--MUSIC OF ROMANCEOn the morning following Gabrielle's terrible experience old Everard sat bathing his head in a calabash of sea-water. It considerably revived his numbed sense. Then he blew his...
3. CHAPTER III--SOUTH SEA OPERA BOUFFEHillary hardly knew where he was going as he walked back round the coast, thinking of Gabrielle Everard and all that had upset his mind. When he at last arrived at his lodgings,...