The moon rose up that evening and shot her silver arrows at the house under the artu tree. The house was empty. Then the moon came across the sea and across the reef.
       She lit the lagoon to its dark, dim heart. She lit the coral brains and sand spaces, and the fish, casting their shadows on the sand and the coral. The keeper of the lagoon rose to greet her, and the fin of him broke her reflection on the mirror-like surface into a thousand glittering ripples. She saw the white staring ribs of the form on the reef. Then, peeping over the trees, she looked down into the valley, where the great idol of stone had kept its solitary vigil for five thousand years, perhaps, or more.
       At his base, in his shadow, looking as if under his protection, lay two human beings, naked, clasped in each other's arms, and fast asleep. One could scarcely pity his vigil, had it been marked sometimes through the years by such an incident as this. The thing had been conducted just as the birds conduct their love affairs. An affair absolutely natural, absolutely blameless, and without sin.
       It was a marriage according to Nature, without feast or guests, consummated with accidental cynicism under the shadow of a religion a thousand years dead.
       So happy in their ignorance were they, that they only knew that suddenly life had changed, that the skies and the sea were bluer, and that they had become in some magical way one a part of the other. The birds on the tree above were equally as happy in their ignorance, and in their love.

part i
   Chapter I. Where the Slush Lamp Burns
   Chapter II. Under the Stars
   Chapter III. The Shadow and the Fire
   Chapter IV. And Like a Dream Dissolved
   Chapter V. Voices Heard in the Mist
   Chapter VI. Dawn on a Wide, Wide Sea
   Chapter VII. Story of the Pig and the Billy-Goat
   Chapter VIII. "S-H-E-N-A-N-D-O-A-H"
   Chapter IX. Shadows in the Moonlight
   Chapter X. The Tragedy of the Boats
part ii
   Chapter XI. The Island
   Chapter XII. The Lake of Azure
   Chapter XIII. Death Veiled with Lichen
   Chapter XIV. Echoes of Fairy-Land
   Chapter XV. Fair Pictures in the Blue
part iii
   Chapter XVI. The Poetry of Learning
   Chapter XVII. The Devil's Cask
   Chapter XVIII. The Rat Hunt
   Chapter XIX. Starlight on the Foam
   Chapter XX. The Dreamer on the Reef
   Chapter XXI. The Garland of Flowers
   Chapter XXII. Alone
   Chapter XXIII. They Move Away
Chapter I. Under the Artu Tree
Chapter II. Half Child--Half Savage
Chapter III. The Demon of the Reef
Chapter IV. What Beauty Concealed
Chapter V. The Sound of a Drum
Chapter VI. Sails Upon the Sea
Chapter VII. The Schooner
Chapter VIII. Love Steps In
Chapter IX. The Sleep of Paradise
Chapter X. An Island Honeymoon
Chapter XI. The Vanishing of Emmeline
Chapter XII. The Vanishing of Emmeline (continued)
Chapter XIII. The Newcomer
Chapter XIV. Hannah
Chapter XV. The Lagoon of Fire
Chapter XVI. The Cyclone
Chapter XVII. The Stricken Woods
Chapter XVIII. A Fallen Idol
Chapter XIX. The Expedition
Chapter XX. The Keeper of the Lagoon
Chapter XXI. The Hand of the Sea
Chapter XXII. Together
Chapter I. Mad Lestrange
Chapter II. The Secret of the Azure
Chapter III. Captain Fountain
Chapter IV. Due South