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Now Keola was truly afraid of Kalamake, but he was vain too; and these words of his wife incensed him. "Very well," said he, "if that is what you think of me, I will show how much you are deceived." And he went straight to where his father-in-law was sitting in the parlour. "Kalamake," said he, "I want a concertina." "Do you indeed?" said Kalamake.

And with that he began to grow afraid himself, and returned to Kalamake, bringing the leaves. Him he told what he had seen. "You must pay no heed," said Kalamake. "All this is like a dream and shadows. All will disappear and be forgotten." "It seemed none saw me," said Keola. "And none did," replied the sorcerer. "We walk here in the broad sun invisible by reason of these charms.

For it seems he had observed the place where Kalamake kept his treasure, which was a lockfast desk against the parlour wall, under the print of Kamehameha the Fifth, and a photograph of Queen Victoria with her crown; and it seems again that, no later than the night before, he found occasion to look in, and behold! the bag lay there empty.

And then he was sorry: “For,” thought he, “I had done better to have bought a concertina, with which I might have entertained myself all day long.” And then he began to grow vexed with Kalamake. “This man has the soul of a dog,” thought he. “He can gather dollars when he pleases on the beach, and he leaves me to pine for a concertina!

But there was another matter not so clear, and Lehua and Keola talked of it all night and were troubled. There was Kalamake left upon the isle. If, by the blessing of God, he could but stick there, all were well; but should he escape and return to Molokai, it would be an ill day for his daughter and her husband.

Keola ran to the shutters; and there was the steamer tossing in the swell close in. The same night Kalamake took his son-in-law apart, and gave him five dollars in his hand. I am a man of few words, and I have for my helpers people of short memories." Never a word more said Kalamake, nor referred again to that affair.

Him he told what he had seen. “You must pay no heed,” said Kalamake. “All this is like a dream and shadows. All will disappear and be forgotten.” “It seemed none saw me,” said Keola. “And none did,” replied the sorcerer. “We walk here in the broad sun invisible by reason of these charms. Yet they hear us; and therefore it is well to speak softly, as I do.”

Still, it would not do to make too sure of a warlock like Kalamake, and they determined at last to take counsel of a white missionary. So the first one that came by, Keola told him everything. And the missionary was very sharp on him for taking the second wife in the low island; but for all the rest, he vowed he could make neither head nor tail of it.

With that he changed his grasp upon the lantern, and, behold! as he drew his finger from the ring, the finger stuck and the ring was burst, and his hand was grown to be of the bigness of three. At that sight Keola screamed and covered his face. But Kalamake held up the lantern.

And as for Kalamake, it is not possible he can ever get as far as this." With that he kept edging the schooner nearer in. He had to do this quietly, for it was the trouble with these white men, and above all with the mate, that you could never be sure of them; they would be all sleeping sound, or else pretending, and if a sail shook they would jump to their feet and fall on you with a rope's end.

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