The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-05-18

No ono could understand the drift OF
these words, which Alba refused to OK
plain, and this increased the general dis
trust against her.
She became so sad that those around
her could not believe that she was the
same brilliant creature they had seen
but the evening previously. Even the
fond vows of everlasting love, muir
INJURED in her shell.like ear by the young
prince, were powerless to dispel the
cloud storm from her brow.
When she appeared at court, the
fabulous and countless treasures Of the
young princess were the chief topic Of
conversation. Prince Porfia was urged
to inspect them more infinitely, but he
did not care for riches, he said, and
only thought how to make his young
bride smile again, but all his efforts
proved wholly Intellectual. At length he
set forth in search Of her former sur
roundings, deeming that on seeing the
familiar objects of her childhood her
gayety would return, for she regarded
with disdain the small stones considered
by others as jewels and could not in
duce herself to understand that such
meager baubles could possess value for
any one. When she heard that the
prince intended to return to her moth
er's citadel, she exhibited the greatest
CONSERVATION and terror, imploring him
and duplicating him to give up his in
tention.
"Thou goest to thy DEATH" said she,
but he would not be dissuaded from his
purpose, and the more he heard of the
dangSscTys WIS., rt27Se1f hs@ the more Ig,
their way, some falling over precipices,
utterly stunned. Prince Porfia alone,
| impelled by his desire for vengeance
and his intention of strangling the wick
ed Baba, marched on to the castle, but
he was SO speedily enveloped in the icy
missiles that he could not lift limb,
and before he could utter word he was
buried deep in the snow.
Bahia Coaja Knocked him with laugh
of hatred, saying:
Now she will come to him and moi
to me, but she will come to my abode,
not to his. So at least shall have my
dear daughter once again near to me,
and she will no longer dwell with hated
mortals"
In truth she had but short time tC
wait, for Alba came coursing up the
mountain, exhausted by the distance
she had run, her delicate velvet dress
soiled by the melted snow.
"Whero is he? Oh, where is her" fal
tered she, with pale lips.
"Ah," cried the old Bahia, Thor
hast fed from thy home with strange
man, and now on thy return thou ask
est first of him and not of me. Well, h'
is not here. "
ooh, surely he is, that / know, for
followed his track quite up to this heal
of snow"
"He has not advanced fartherr" sale
the Bahia. Neither will he do SO. HI
lies smothered there by thy preciou
jewels"
With cry of agony, Alba flung her
self on the snowdrift and searched il
vain with her delicate hands for trace
of her lost love, but the mantle of snow
which embraced him was already to-
heavy, too frozen and compact Crying
out, "Oh, mother, mother, what has
thou done?" Alba fell dead Oh the ic,
snowdrift.
Thence issued from the Baba's wither
ed throat a shrek so shrill and piercin,
that the mountains rocked as if shaker
by an earthquake, and the mighty cita
del crumbled and buried the Baba witt
all her gold under its mass of ruins. Oh
the exact spot where the fair Alba ex
PRED there sprang up a delicate noun
tain flower whose petals resembled
thick white velvet. In her memory i
was named Alba Regina but in Germa,
and many other languages it is know
rs edelweiss. White and pure as tn
young girl who died there, it blossom
only in the regions of perpetual snow
which envelop her beloved.
Perhaps one of these days the snow
may be again changed into preciou
stones, but that can only be when an
other such chaste and pure virgin passe
over the cone of Baba Cetatia.
The beteela spun by the good Alba i
still eagerly sought for. Each brid
hopes to have the joy of finding 1t, AM
it is for this reason that none breads tn
witoh's terrible golden strands, for eacl
believes that Alba's beteela will com
to her, and that she will share the Bills
it will bring to her with her bride
groom.
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