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So saying, he put the Bible under the cushion of the sofa so that it was all covered, brought out from the same place a mat of a wonderfully fine texture, and heaped the herbs and leaves on sand in a tin pan. And then he and Keola put on the necklaces and took their stand upon the opposite corners of the mat. "The time comes," said the warlock; "be not afraid."
Kalamake made Keola close the shutters of the windows, while he himself locked all the doors and set open the lid of the desk. From this he brought forth a pair of necklaces, hung with charms and shells, a bundle of dried herbs, and the dried leaves of trees, and a green branch of palm. "What I am about," said he, "is a thing beyond wonder.
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.”
It was a fine starry night, the sea was smooth as well as the sky fair; it blew a steady trade; and there was the island on their weather bow, a ribbon of palm trees lying flat along the sea. The captain and the mate looked at it with the night glass, and named the name of it, and talked of it, beside the wheel where Keola was steering. It seemed it was an isle where no traders came.
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.”
But Keawe ran to Kokua light as the wind; and great was their joy that night; and great, since then, has been the peace of all their days in the Bright House. Whites. Keola was married with Lehua, daughter of Kalamake, the wise man of Molokai, and he kept his dwelling with the father of his wife.
And he was amazed, because this was a kind of island he had never heard of. The time of Keola in that place was in two periods the period when he was alone, and the period when he was there with the tribe. At first he sought everywhere and found no man; only some houses standing in a hamlet, and the marks of fires.
Of all these doings of his father-in-law, Keola knew a little by the common repute, a little more he suspected, and the rest he ignored. But there was one thing troubled him. Kalamake was a man that spared for nothing, whether to eat or to drink or to wear; and for all he paid in bright new dollars. "Bright as Kalamake's dollars" was another saying in the Eight Isles.
Presently he is spent and goes down, and his bones are scattered with the rest, and the gods devour his spirit." Fear came on Keola at the words, and he looked, and by the light of the stars and the lantern the warlock seemed to change. "What ails you?" cried Keola, quick and sharp. "It is not I who am ailing," said the wizard; "but there is one here very sick."
And what was the worst of all, whenever Keola found a chance to sleep, there was the mate awake and stirring him up with a rope's end. Keola saw it would never do; and he made up his mind to run away. They were about a month out from Honolulu when they made the land.
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