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"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?
The leaves blazed with a clear flame that consumed them swiftly; and presently Keola had but a handful left, and the sorcerer was far off, running and stooping. "Back!" cried Keola. "Back! The leaves are near done." At that Kalamake turned, and if he had run before, now he flew. But fast as he ran, the leaves burned faster.
Last time I taught you to pick shells; this time I shall teach you to catch fish. Are you strong enough to launch Pili’s boat?” “I think I am,” returned Keola. “But why should we not take your own, which is afloat already?” “I have a reason which you will understand thoroughly before to-morrow,” said Kalamake. “Pili’s boat is the better suited for my purpose.
And it was plain to him it was something beyond ordinary, for the fires were not lighted nor the shells taken, but the bodiless voices kept posting up the beach, and hailing and dying away; and others following, and by the sound of them these wizards should be angry. "It is not me they are angry at," thought Keola, "for they pass me close."
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.”
It was at this period when he kept the most close to the lagoon side, and, as far as he dared, abode in the cover of his hut. The cause of the second period was talk he heard from his wife and the chief islanders. Keola himself said little.
Keola asked them if it were the same in their own island where they stayed, and they told him no, not there; nor yet in any other of some hundred isles that lay all about them in that sea; but it was a thing peculiar to the Isle of Voices. Only once a chief had cast a spear at one of the voices, and the same night he fell out of a cocoanut palm and was killed.
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.
They gave him gin and biscuit and dry clothes, and asked him how he came where they found him, and whether the light which they had seen was the lighthouse, Lae o Ka Laau. This ship was a schooner bound for Honolulu, and then to trade in the low islands; and by a very good chance for Keola she had lost a man off the bowsprit in a squall. It was no use talking.
Let him beware: I am no child, I am as cunning as he, and hold his secret.” With that he spoke to his wife Lehua, and complained of her father’s manners. “I would let my father be,” said Lehua. “He is a dangerous man to cross.” “I care that for him!” cried Keola; and snapped his fingers. “I have him by the nose. I can make him do what I please.” And he told Lehua the story.
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