Vaiti of the Islands

But Vaiti was not in the least mollified by his unprosperous case. In her opinion, he ought to have been dead long ago. There could be no peace of mind for her while he was stil...

But, careless as Donahue was, the papers were not to be found in the little deck cabin which he used as a chart-room. Vaiti, disappointed, took one of the charts and began study...

Of this, naturally, she said nothing to Pita, merely relating the matter of the skulls in as few words as possible. Pita, for his part, made no comment, but took a couple of rev...

Rather late next morning, when the bride and bridegroom—the former in a gorgeous gown of yellow curtain muslin, the latter in a thick tweed suit from Auckland that caused him to...

And then Vaiti spoke, shrieking at the top of her voice in order to be heard. Her face, its hard calm broken up at last, was black with rage, and she had pulled out her revolver...

There is no nation that swings so high and so low between opposite extremes of character as the impetuous race that is handcuffed, by an odd freak of geography, to steady, serio...

It poured furiously in an hour or two, for it was in the hot season, and the great rains were out. Donahue could not light his lamp when he came to the clump of palms, which he...

“About his daughter?” asked the nurse. She, like every one else in Suva, was deeply interested in this especial patient’s story. He had come to Suva in his own schooner, the _Sy...

For was it not natural that when Saxon unexpectedly reappeared at the Constantinople Hotel with a good deal of his money still left, and sent for Vaiti to join him and “live lik...

Famous as she was for speed, the record of her passage from the Delgadas to Wellington fairly astonished the Islands, when it came to be told. They had a fair wind almost all th...

I. The Pearl Lagoon II. A Race for a Fortune III. The Flower behind the Ear IV. The Black Viri V. A Diamond Web VI. Marooned VII. The Turning of the Tables VIII. The White Man o...

The yacht had come in that afternoon after a somewhat stormy voyage from Sydney (“They call it the Pacific Ocean,” said Lady Victoria plaintively, “instead of which, I have not...

Half an hour later, Vaiti had rowed herself ashore, curtly declining Harris’s polite offers of assistance, and had landed on the beach. As she did not know who she might be goin...

It was not a gratifying tale. Half a mile from the beach, the captors had been overtaken by a party of wild hillmen from Ranaar, one of the worst of the inland cannibal towns, a...

It seemed as if that plain would never end, but it did end at last, and a green fringe of pandanus announced the beginning of the bush. The elderly young lady and most of the ot...

Litia, entering at this point, wasted no words, but simply buried her hands in Mahina’s curly black masses of hair, and dragged her, shrieking, across the floor. Neumann interfe...

It was a fine proclamation, but assuredly the order in the last clause asked too much of Lialian humanity. No one attempted to obey it. The news was received first in a dead sil...