We developed quite a thirst during our hike.

Parlay's a full-blooded Frenchman. . . . About a hundred miserable Paumotans lived on the island. He married the queen—native fashion. . . . Now before the queen died she gave birth to a girl. . . . She was educated like a princess, and she accepted herself in much the same way. Also, she thought she was all-white, and never dreamed of a bar sinister.

Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property.

You're in luck: this is the last one.