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Updated: June 29, 2025
“It is done now,” he thought, “and once more let me take the good along with the evil.” So it befell that he returned to Hawaii by the first steamer, and as soon as it could be managed he was wedded to Kokua, and carried her up the mountain side to the Bright House.
“Give it me!” gasped Kokua. “There is your money. Do you think I am so base as that? Give me the bottle.” “God bless you, child,” said the old man. Kokua concealed the bottle under her holoku, said farewell to the old man, and walked off along the avenue, she cared not whither. For all roads were now the same to her, and led equally to hell.
We stayed in the house to keep track of the inmates, while the squarehead led one of them off to find a kokua. He got him, and he brought him along at the point of his revolver. But the kokua was all right. While the squarehead guarded the house, Burnley and I were guided by the kokua to Lyte's house. He was all alone. "'I thought you fellows would come, Lyte said. 'Don't touch me, John.
Thither he went, because he feared to be alone; and there, among happy faces, walked to and fro, and heard the tunes go up and down, and saw Berger beat the measure, and all the while he heard the flames crackle, and saw the red fire burning in the bottomless pit. Of a sudden the band played Hiki-ao-ao; that was a song that he had sung with Kokua, and at the strain courage returned to him.
Kokua said never a word, but she looked at the sea and laughed. “Kokua,” said Keawe, “if you say nothing, I will take that for the good answer; so let us be stepping to your father’s door.” She went on ahead of him, still without speech; only sometimes she glanced back and glanced away again, and she kept the strings of her hat in her mouth.
There was Kokua on the floor, the lamp at her side; before her was a milk-white bottle, with a round belly and a long neck; and as she viewed it, Kokua wrung her hands. A long time Keawe stood and looked in the doorway.
It was necessary besides to explain the dangers of the bottle; and either people disbelieved the whole thing and laughed, or they thought the more of the darker part, became overcast with gravity, and drew away from Keawe and Kokua, as from persons who had dealings with the devil.
"If you meant falsely," said the old man, "I think God would strike you dead." "He would!" cried Kokua. "Be sure He would. I could not be so treacherous God would not suffer it." "Give me the four centimes and await me here," said the old man. Now, when Kokua stood alone in the street her spirit died.
But if you go, he will sell it eagerly; I will await you here; you will buy it for four centimes, and I will buy it again for three. And the Lord strengthen a poor girl!” “If you meant falsely,” said the old man, “I think God would strike you dead.” “He would!” cried Kokua. “Be sure he would. I could not be so treacherous—God would not suffer it.”
“O my husband!” said Kokua. “Is it not a terrible thing to save oneself by the eternal ruin of another? It seems to me I could not laugh. I would be humbled. I would be filled with melancholy. I would pray for the poor holder.” Then Keawe, because he felt the truth of what she said, grew the more angry. “Heighty-teighty!” cried he. “You may be filled with melancholy if you please.
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