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Updated: June 25, 2025
Quick! get the leaves and the herbs, and let us free.” “You are there with the mat?” he asked. “Here, at your side;” said she. And he felt her arms about him. “Quick! the leaves and the herbs, before my father can get back!” So Keola ran for his life, and fetched the wizard fuel; and Lehua guided him back, and set his feet upon the mat, and made the fire.
"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. But she shook her head. "You may do what you like," said she; "but as sure as you thwart my father, you will be no more heard of.
“I am too long here,” thought Keola, and ran further out of the wood and down the beach, not caring whither. “Keola!” said, a voice close by upon the empty sand. “Lehua! is that you?” he cried, and gasped, and looked in vain for her; but by the eyesight he was stark alone. “I saw you pass before,” the voice answered: “but you would not hear me.
Presently after he espied Lehua weeping, and was half in a mind to tell her all was well. "But no," thinks he; "I shall wait till I can show her the concertina; we shall see what the chit will do then. Perhaps she will understand in the future that her husband is a man of some intelligence." As soon as it was dark, father and son-in-law launched Pili's boat and set the sail.
The islands comprising the Hawaiian territory are Hawaii, Mauai, Oaha, Kauai, Molokai, Lauai, Niihau, Kahaalawe, Lehua and Molokini, "The Leper Prison," and, in addition, Nihoa, or Bird Island, was taken possession of in 1822; an expedition for that purpose having been fitted out by direction of Kaahumanu, and sent thither under the charge of Captain William Sumner.
Presently after he spied Lehua weeping, and was half in a mind to tell her all was well. “But no,” thinks he; “I shall wait till I can show her the concertina; we shall see what the chit will do then. Perhaps she will understand in the future that her husband is a man of some intelligence.” As soon as it was dark father and son-in-law launched Pili’s boat and set the sail.
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. Keola was married with Lehua, daughter of Kalamake, the wise man of Molokai, and he kept his dwelling with the father of his wife.
Also, they knew Hawaiian songs she had learned from Mercedes, and soon, to her accompaniment, all were singing: "Aloha Oe," "Honolulu Tomboy," and "Sweet Lei Lehua." Saxon was genuinely shocked when some of them, even the more matronly, danced hulas on the sand. When the men returned, burdened with sacks of shellfish, Mark Hall, as high priest, commanded the due and solemn rite of the tribe.
And all the time of the burning, Keola stood there and listened, and shook, and watched how the unseen hands of Lehua poured the leaves. She poured them fast, and the flame burned high, and scorched Keola’s hands; and she speeded and blew the burning with her breath. The last leaf was eaten, the flame fell, and the shock followed, and there were Keola and Lehua in the room at home.
"You are there with the mat?" he asked. "Here, at your side," said she. And he felt her arms about him. "Quick! the leaves and the herbs, before my father can get back!" So Keola ran for his life, and fetched the wizard fuel: and Lehua guided him back, and set his feet upon the mat, and made the fire.
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