VAITI OF THE ISLANDS

BY BEATRICE GRIMSHAW

LONDON
GEORGE NEWNES, LIMITED
SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

[Prologue]

  1. [The Pearl Lagoon]
  2. [A Race for a Fortune]
  3. [The Flower behind the Ear]
  4. [The Black Viri]
  5. [A Diamond Web]
  6. [Marooned]
  7. [The Turning of the Tables]
  8. [The White Man of Nalolo]
  9. [The Lost Island]
  10. [What came of the Paris Dress]
  11. [A Dead Man's Revenge]
  12. [Breaking the Mana]
  13. [The Game Played Out]
  14. [How the Witch-Doctor got his Money back]
  15. [The Calamity of Coral Bay]
  16. [The Fate of the Lieutenant]
  17. [Invaders in Tanna]
  18. [A Cannibal Party]
  19. [The Rival Princesses]
  20. [Queen after all]

VAITI OF THE ISLANDS

PROLOGUE

It was in the seventies, long ago.