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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Yes, Stephen Knight you know him. You said good-bye to him not five minutes ago. Mayn't he, if he happens to be in the United States some time, come and see us?" "Certainly not," Jeremy Sambrooke answered shortly. "Stephen Knight is a hapa-haole and you know what that means." "Oh," Dorothy said faintly, while she felt a numb despair creep into her heart.
And Senator Behrend's wife laughed and wanted to know why matrimony had affected Susie Maydwell's friendships. "Hapa-haole," was the answer; "he was a half-caste, you know, and we of the Islands have to think about our children." Dorothy turned to her father, resolved to put it to the test. "Papa, if Steve ever comes to the United States, mayn't he come and see us some time?" "Who? Steve?"
Other women, hapa-haole and full native, watched her anxiously as she fled. At the front of the house, on the grass, squatted a score of Hawaiians. Well-muscled, broad-shouldered, they were all strapping men. Brown-skinned, with luminous brown eyes and black, their features large and regular, they showed all the signs of being as good-natured, merry-hearted, and soft-tempered as the climate.
Steve was not a hapa-haole she knew that; but she did not know that a quarter-strain of tropic sunshine streamed in his veins, and she knew that that was sufficient to put him outside the marriage pale. It was a strange world.
And they were just right, without spot or blemish, with chests like little barrels, and with all the inheritance of his own health and strength. "And then it happened. The mark of the beast was laid upon him. I watched it for a year. It broke my heart. But he did not know it, nor did anybody else guess it except that cursed hapa-haole, Stephen Kaluna. He knew it, but I did not know that he did.
"'I can see nothing, he said finally, then turned on the hapa-haole. 'You have a black heart, Kaluna. And I am not ashamed to say that you have given me a scare that no man has a right to give another. I take you at your word. I am going to settle this thing now. I am going straight to Doc Strowbridge. And when I come back, watch out. "He never looked at us, but started for the door.
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