Call of the Heathen

the long version

A white man 'going native' in the remote jungle of Borneo was going to make a splendid story - and it was newspaper girl Sara Chesworth's job to get it. But the white man, the mysterious 'John', had views of his own on the subject - which was that Sara should mind her own business, leave him alone and forget the whole thing or she would regret it. So Sara was going to find her task far from easy. Even before she complicated matters by falling in love with him. For, quite apart from the primitive life that he led, there was the small matter of his lovely young Native wife, Sri . . .