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Updated: June 26, 2025
So, if you please, let us meet there as soon as it is dark; and in the meanwhile let us keep our own counsel, for there is no cause to let the family into our business." Honey is not more sweet than was the voice of Kalamake, and Keola could scarce contain his satisfaction. "I might have had my concertina weeks ago," thought he, "and there is nothing needed in this world but a little courage."
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.
Now I begin to think I may have found an assistant and successor in my difficult business. A concertina? You shall have the best in Honolulu. And to-night, as soon as it is dark, you and I will go and find the money.” “Shall we return to the beach?” asked Keola. “No, no!” replied Kalamake; “you must begin to learn more of my secrets.
As she ran, the girl kept crying in some speech that was not practised in Hawaii, yet some of the words were the same, and he knew she kept calling and warning others. And presently he saw more people running—men, women and children, one with another, all running and crying like people at a fire. And with that he began to grow afraid himself, and returned to Kalamake bringing the leaves.
With that he set flame to the herbs, and began to mutter and wave the branch of palm. At first the light was dim because of the closed shutters; but the herbs caught strongly afire, and the flames beat upon Keola, and the room glowed with the burning: and next the smoke rose and made his head swim and his eyes darken, and the sound of Kalamake muttering ran in his ears.
The wizard had a lantern, which he lit and held with his finger through the ring; and the two sat in the stern and smoked cigars, of which Kalamake had always a provision, and spoke like friends of magic and the great sums of money which they could make by its exercise, and what they should buy first, and what second; and Kalamake talked like a father.
But Kalamake held up the lantern. “Look rather at my face!” said he—and his head was huge as a barrel; and still he grew and grew as a cloud grows on a mountain, and Keola sat before him screaming, and the boat raced on the great seas. “And now,” said the wizard, “what do you think about that concertina? and are you sure you would not rather have a flute?
With that he set flame to the herbs, and began to mutter and wave the branch of palm. At first the light was dim because of the closed shutters; but the herbs caught strongly afire, and the flames beat upon Keola, and the room glowed with the burning; and next the smoke rose and made his head swim and his eyes darken, and the sound of Kalamake muttering ran in his ears.
But he warned the police at Honolulu that, by all he could make out, Kalamake and Keola had been coining false money, and it would not be amiss to watch them. Keola and Lehua took his advice, and gave many dollars to the lepers and the fund. And no doubt the advice must have been good, for from that day to this, Kalamake has never more been heard of.
While he was so thinking, there was his father-in-law behind him, looking vexed. "Is that the steamer?" he asked. "Yes," said Keola. "She has but to call at Pelekunu, and then she will be here." "There is no help for it then," returned Kalamake, "and I must take you in my confidence, Keola, for the lack of anyone better. Come here within the house."
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