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“And to think how they have fooled me with their talk of mints,” says he, “and that money was made there, when it is clear that all the new coin in all the world is gathered on these sands! But I will know better the next time!” said he. And at last, he knew not very well how or when, sleep feel on Keola, and he forgot the island and all his sorrows.
But Keola was an idle dog, and he lay in the verandah and watched the surf beat on the shore and the birds fly about the cliff. It was a chief thought with him always—the thought of the bright dollars. When he lay down to bed he would be wondering why they were so many, and when he woke at morn he would be wondering why they were all new; and the thing was never absent from his mind.
So Keola edged her up little by little, and kept all drawing. And presently the land was close on board, and the sound of the sea on the sides of it grew loud. With that, the mate sat up suddenly upon the house. “What are you doing?” he roars. “You’ll have the ship ashore!” And he made one bound for Keola, and Keola made another clean over the rail and plump into the starry sea.
Oh, that is a fine place indeed! The trader has barrels filled with flour, and a French warship once came in the lagoon and gave everybody wine and biscuit. Ah, my poor Keola, I wish I could take you there, for great is my love to you, and it is the finest place in the seas except Papeete.” So now Keola was the most terrified man in the four oceans.
We must be home again before the steamer comes; it would seem strange if we had disappeared." And he sat on the sand and panted. Keola went up the beach, which was of shining sand and coral, strewn with singular shells; and he thought in his heart "How do I not know this beach? I will come here again and gather shells."
Keola ran to the shutters; and there was the steamer tossing in the swell close in. The same night Kalamake took his son-in-law apart, and gave him five dollars in his hand. I am a man of few words, and I have for my helpers people of short memories." Never a word more said Kalamake, nor referred again to that affair.
And Laulani was beautiful; that Keola should be made into a spearhead for her! For ten generations have we remembered her beauty. Your father's singing boys to-day sing of her beauty in the hula that is named of her! This is Laulani, whom you hold in your hands. "And, Ahuna done, I could but gaze, with imagination at the one time sobered and fired.
But it was a strange thing that her eyes did not rest upon Keola. “Good day,” said he. “You need not be so frightened; I will not eat you.” And he had scarce opened his mouth before the young woman fled into the bush. “These are strange manners,” thought Keola. And, not thinking what he did, ran after her.
But Keola was an idle dog, and he lay in the verandah and watched the surf beat on the shore and the birds fly about the cliff. It was a chief thought with him always the thought of the bright dollars. When he lay down to bed he would be wondering why they were so many, and when he woke at morn he would be wondering why they were all new; and the thing was never absent from his mind.
But there was another matter not so clear, and Lehua and Keola talked of it all night and were troubled. There was Kalamake left upon the isle. If, by the blessing of God, he could but stick there, all were well; but should he escape and return to Molokai, it would be an ill day for his daughter and her husband.
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