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Updated: June 21, 2025
If I were to buy the bottle, and got no schooner after all, I should have put my hand in the fire for nothing. I gave you my word, I know; but yet I think you would not grudge me one more proof.” “I have sworn I would take no more favours,” said Keawe. “I have gone already deep enough.” “This is no favour I am thinking of,” replied Lopaka. “It is only to see the imp himself.
Keawe stepped out among the crowd and began to ask for Lopaka. It seemed he had become the owner of a schooner—none better in the islands—and was gone upon an adventure as far as Pola-Pola or Kahiki; so there was no help to be looked for from Lopaka.
But Lopaka was thinking to himself, and presently, when Keawe's grief was a little abated, "I have been thinking," said Lopaka. "Had not your uncle lands in Hawaii, in the district of Kaü?" "No," said Keawe, "not in Kaü; they are on the mountain-side a little way south of Hookena." "These lands will now be yours?" asked Lopaka.
What!” he thought, “would I beard the devil once, only to get me a house, and not face him again to win Kokua?” Thereupon he called to mind it was the next day the Hall went by on her return to Honolulu. “There must I go first,” he thought, “and see Lopaka. For the best hope that I have now is to find that same bottle I was so pleased to be rid of.”
"Now," said Keawe, "I have sold that for sixty which I bought for fifty or, to say truth, a little less, because one of my dollars was from Chili. Now I shall know the truth upon another point." So he went back on board his ship, and, when he opened his chest, there was the bottle, and had come more quickly than himself. Now Keawe had a mate on board whose name was Lopaka.
“Better and better!” cried Lopaka. “Here is all made plain for us. Let us continue to obey orders.” So they went to the architect, and he had drawings of houses on his table. “You want something out of the way,” said the architect. “How do you like this?” and he handed a drawing to Keawe.
"The imp may be very ugly to view: and if you once set eyes upon him you might be very undesirous of the bottle." "I am a man of my word," said Lopaka. "And here is the money betwixt us." "Very well," replied Keawe. "I have a curiosity myself. So come, let us have one look at you, Mr. Imp."
The architect told them that the house was ready, and Keawe and Lopaka took a passage in the Hall, and went down Kona way to view the house, and see if all had been done fitly according to the thought that was in Keawe's mind. Now, the house stood on the mountain side, visible to ships.
"You are a friend of Lopaka's," replied Keawe, "and Lopaka purchased from me a certain piece of goods that I thought you might enable me to trace." The lawyer's face became very dark. "I do not profess to misunderstand you, Mr. Keawe," said he, "though this is an ugly business to be stirring in.
“Lopaka,” said Keawe, “do not you think any worse of me than you can help; I know it is night, and the roads bad, and the pass by the tombs an ill place to go by so late, but I declare since I have seen that little face, I cannot eat or sleep or pray till it is gone from me.
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