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Her uncle cried broke in California, and Jim Lokendamper sent eighty dollars to California to bury him. Jim Lokendamper had a piece of land in Kohala he got from his mother's aunt. Lizzie, his married wife, did not know this. So he sold it to the Kohala Ditch Company and wave the twenty-five hundred to Azalea Akau "
From now on, I'm going to be goody-girl, and behave like nice ladies, like Patty and Betty and Elise." The slight hesitation before the last name made Elise bite her lip in chagrin, for she had seen that her attack on Azalea was not approved of by most of the audience. Poor Elise was of an unfortunate disposition, and envy and jealousy were her besetting sins.
"It's half-past four!" "I know it. That's not late. Come on, let's go home." Azalea was smiling and in an excited mood, but she looked tired, almost exhausted, as well. She was flushed, and her hair was rumpled, and her breath came quickly, as if she had been through some violent exercise. "What have you been up to, Zaly?" Elise asked, curiously. "You look all done up!"
And so, because of his praise and appreciation Azalea forgot her fears of censure from the Farnsworths and gave herself up to the delights of the moment. She would not have felt so comfortable had she heard Patty's remarks at sight of the picture. Patty and Mona had come to the theatre later than Azalea, and had been given seats on the other side of the large house.
They were presently to find that the rear of the tea house facing a little garden was glorified into something rich and strange by a magnificent azalea bush in full bloom. It reached to the roof of the house and was a mass of deep red blossoms.
Leaving Azalea to entertain her friends without interruption they went out on a porch on the other side of the house. And soon Raymond Gale sauntered over from his home next door and joined them there. "Some strong-arm, your Azalea guest," he said, in the course of conversation. "Yes," agreed Patty, a little shortly.
"I daresay you are all right, Azalea, and therefore it will be easy for you to answer a few questions which I must insist on having answered. Who was it that telephoned you yesterday?" "Oh, that was Mr. Smith." "His name is not Smith!" Farnsworth spoke so sharply that Azalea fairly jumped. But she insisted, "Yes, it is " "I know it is not!
She hails from Arizona, doesn't she?" "Yes. Here she is now; I hear you're an athlete, Zaly." "Only so-so," the girl replied, half-absently. "Have your friends gone?" asked Patty. "Yes." "I recognised them," began young Gale: "they were " Azalea turned to him quickly. "Don't you say who they were!" she cried, emphatically. "I don't want you to! Don't you dare mention their names! It's a secret!"
Flinging herself from the horse, she dashed into the piles of debris, and, the gale nearly blowing her off her feet, contrived to find the child. Of course, in the taking of the picture, Fleurette had been in no danger whatever; in fact, had not been in the falling house at all, until time for Azalea to find her in the ruins. But this was not apparent to the audience.
But laurel, azalea, and rhododendron bloomed no longer; the flowers that now blossomed in a riot of azure, purple, and gold on every side were the lovely wild asters and golden-rod; and no pretty garden set with formal beds and garnished artfully seemed to compare with this wild garden in the Vale Yndaia.
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