Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-15

about me toward the worse. For the first
time I will light up the chambers, aud
battle in my fine bath with the hot water
and the cold, and sleep above in the bed of
my bridal chamber" So the Chinaman had
word, and he must rise from sleep and light
the furnaces; and as he walked below beside
tue boilers he heard his master singing and
rejoicing above him by the lighted
chambers. When the water began to
be hot. the Chinaman cried to his
master; and Keawe went into the
bathrooms and the Chinaman heard him
sing as he filled the marble basin; and heard
him sing, and the singing broken, as be I'M
dressed; until of a sudden the song ceased.
TIT Chinaman listened and llstenedi he
called up the house to Keawe,t to ask II all
were well, and Keawe answered him eyes,"
and babe MIN 60 to bed; but there was no
more singing in the Bright House; and all
night long the Chinaman heard his masters
feet 60 round and round the balconies with
out repose.
Now the truth Of 1t was this: As Keawe
undressed for his bath, he spied upon his
flesh a patch like O patch of lichen on a
rock, and it was then that he stopped sing
ing. Fol he knew the likeness of that
patch, and knew he was fallen in the lep-
rosy.
Now it is a sad thing for any man to fall
into this sickness. And it would be a sad
thing for anyone to leave a house so beauti-
ned and so eomodious, and depar: from all
his friends to the north coast of Molokal, be-
tween the mighty cliff and the sea-breakers
But what was that to the case of the man
keawe? he who had met his love but yester-
day, and won her but that morning, and
now saw all his hopes break in a moment
like q piece of glass?
Awhile he sat upon the edge of the bath;
then sprang with a cry and ran outside, and
to and fro, and to and fro, along the balcony.
like one despairing.
"Very willingly could 1 leave Hawaii,
the home of my fathers" Keawe was think
ing. VERY lightly could 1 leave my house,
the high-placed, the many-windowed, here
upon the mountains. Very bravely could I
60 to Molokai, TO Kalaupapa by the cliffs,
to live with the smitten and to sleep there,
far from my fathers. But what wrong have
l done, what sin lies upon my soul, that I
should have encountered Kokua coming
cool from the sea water In the evening, Ko-
kua the soul ensnarer, Kokua the light OF
my life? Her may I never wed, her may I
look upon no longer, her may I no more
handle with my loving hand. Aud it is for
this-it is for you, o. Kokua, that I pour
my lamentationsl"
Thereupon he called to mind 1t was the
ASAb 0dy buC x2utt Wcub w Ou ncE IcbuTu W
Honolulu. 'There must I 90 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 you are to observe what kind Of a
man Keswe was; for he might have dwelt
there in the Bright House for years, and no
one been the wiser of his sickness; but he
rocked nothing of that, if he must lose
Kokua. And again he might have wed
Kokua even as he was; and so many would
have done, because they have the souls of
pigs; but Keswe loved the maid manfully,
and he would do her no hurt and bring her
in no danger.
A little beyond the midst of the night
came in his mind the recollection Of that
bottle. He went round to the back porch,
and called to memory the day when the
devil had looked forth, and at the thought
ice ran in his veins.
"a dreadful thing is the bottle" thought
Keawe, "and dreadful is the imp, and it is
q dreadful thing to risk the flames Of hell.
But what other hope rave 1 to cure my sick
ness or to wed Kokua? What" ne thought,
would 7 beard the devil once only to get
me q house and not face him again to win
Kokua?'
Ito be continued next Usek ..