The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-16

8ucn q tree, Wnlcn you Will Emu 10 SrOW
there plentifully-three handfuls of each;
and be speedy. We must be home again
before the steamer comes. It would seem
strange If We had disappeared" And he
sat on the sand and painted.
Keola went up the beach, which was Of
shining sand and coral, strewn with sim
guar shells, and he thought in bis heart:
'.How do not know this beach7 will
come here again and gather shells"
In front of him was . line of palms
against the sky; not like the palms of tho
Eight islands. but tall and fresh and beau
tI.ul, and hanging out withered fans like
gold among the green, and he thought in
his heart:
TT is strange should not have found
this grove. will come here again when
it is warm to Sleep" And he thought:
For 1t was winter in Hawaii. and the day
had been chill. And he thought: "Where
are the gray mountainsf And whore is
the cliff with the hanging forest and the
wheeling birds2" and the more he con.
sidered the less he might conceive in what
quarter of the islands ne was fallen.
In the border of the grove. where it met
the beach. the herb was growing. but the
tree further back. Now, As Keola went
toward the tree. he was aware Of young
woman who had nothing on her body but
belt of leaves.
..Wellr" thought Keola, "they are not
very particular about their dress in this
part of the country" And he paused,
Dupposing she would observe him and es-
cape; and seeing that she still looked be-
fore her, stood and hummed aloud. Up
she leaped at the sound; her face was
ashen; she looked this way and that, and
her mouth gaped with the terror of her
soul. But il was . strange thing that her
eyes did not rest on KeOla.
"Good day." said he. 'You need not be
30 frightened; will not eat YOU" And
he had scarce opened his mouth before the
young woman fed into the bush.
"These are strange manners" thought
Keola. And, not thinking what he did,
ran after her.
As she ran the girl kept crying in some
speech that was not practiced in Hawaii,
yet some OF the words were the same, and
he knew she kept calling and warning
others. And presently he saw more peo-
pie running-men. women. children, one
with another. all running and crying like
people at fire. And With that he began
to grow afraid himself, and returned to
Kalamake, bringing the leaves. Him he
told what he had seen.
"You must pay no heed" said Kala-
make. can this Is like . dream and
shadows; all will disappear and be for
gotten"
''And none did," replied the sorcerer
I'VE walk here in the broad sun invisible
by reason Of these charms. Yet they hear
Us. and therefore 1t is well to speak softly,
as do"
With that he made a circle round the
mat with stones. and in the midst he set
the leaves.
at will be your part" said he, "to kee d
the leaves alight. and feed the fire slowly
While they blaze, which is but for little
moment, must do my GRAND, and before
the ashes blacken the same power that
brought US carries US away. Be ready
now with the match, and do you call me
in good time lest the flame burn out and
be left"
leaped like deer out of the circle, and
began to race along the beach like hound
that has been bathing. As he ran he kept
stopping to snatch shells, and it seemed to
Keoia that they giittered as he took them
The leaves biazed with a clear flame that
consumed them swiftly. and presently
Keola had but handful left. and the sor-
cerer was far of. running and stopping.
Back I" cried keola. "Back The leaves
are near done"
At that kaiamake turned. and if he had
run before, now he dew. But fast as he
ran. the leaves burned faster. The flame
was ready to expire when. with q great
leap, he bounded on the mat The wind
oil his ieaping blew it out; and with that
the beach was gone. and the sun and the
sea; and they stood once more in the dim
ness OF the suffered parior. and were once
more shaken and blinded; and on the mat
betwixt them lay pile of shining dollars
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 s. in his hand
"Keola." said he. 'if you are wise man
(which | am doubtful of you will think
you slept this afternoon on the veranda
and dreamed as you were sleeping. am
a man Of few words, and have for my
helpers people of short memories
Never word more said ka,amake, nor
referred again to that affair. But il ran
ali the while In keola's head: If he were
law before. he would now do nothing.
'.Why should I work. thought he
when l have n father-in-law who makes
dollars of sea shells"
Presently his share was spent: he srent
II all upon fine clothes. And then he " As
sorry.
For" thought he. al had done better
tn have bought 4 concertina. with which I
might have entertained myself all day
long" And then he began 10 grow vexed
with kaiamake.
This man has the soul o; a dog. -
thought he. .He can gather dollars when
he pieases on a beach, and he leaves me To
pine for coneertina. Let him beware. [
am no child. | am a cunning as he, and
hold his secret" With that he spoke To
his wife. Lehua. and complained of her
fathers manners
81 would let my father be-" said Lehua
''He Is dangerous man TO cross"
Il care that for himi' cried Keoia. and
snapped his fingers. Il have him Nv the
nose; can make him DO what l please. 4"
And he told lehaa the story.
But she shook ner head
You may do what you like" said she.
but as sure as you thwari my father. yo,,
will be no more heard OF. Think Of mi,
person, and that person: think of Hin,
who Was . noble OF the house of repre-
sensatives, and went 10 Honolulu every
year: and not bone or a hair OF him vs..
found. Remember kamau, and how hs
wasted 10 a thread. so that his wife lifted
him with one hand. keols. You are a b,hv
IN my father hands; he will take Won With
his thumb and finger and eat you like a
shrmp."
Now keola was truly very much afraid
OF kalamake. but he WAS vain, too; and
these words of his wife's incensed him.
"Newy we'll" said he, Iii that is what
you think Of me. will show how much
you are deceived" And he went s,raigh.
10 where his father-in-lsw was sitting In
the parior.
"ksisnake, said he. Il want Q con.
certina."
DO you. indeed ?" said Kalsmake.
Yes, said he, land may as we'll tell