Walter Kirke looked out moodily from beneath the eaves of his basket-work house, and his heart sank as he gazed across the sweltering strip of water, twenty miles wide, that divided the island of Apiang from its neighbor, tarawa.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
For Heaven's sake, please come instantly and exert yourself on my behalf, or else we may lose tarawa for good, and put back the good work by a dozen years."
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
He had not the faintest apprehensions about the tarawa matter.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne