The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28

my friends were here-my close friends,
my attendants. They were weeping
about me. It was not for me to weep.
We heard-you know-everything I
spoke of other things. do not remem-
Der now of what, and 1t matters very
little-and t-Ien 1 went on looking over
my letters"
The little court at the end of the
room sobbed audibly A trio of voices
rose from the shadow of the palms,
singing the plaintive native music,
which is forever sounding in the
Queens gardens. She sat, listening
quietly to the sobbing and the singing.
Her command is admirable.
Did you send any protest?" asked,
when the song was ended; that is, did
you send one to Washington"
ITO Washington? To Washington
Have / not exhausted Washington?
To whom would make protest? Your
Government is a government of many
by many" and this daughter of a
race which has one supreme and suf-
fcient chief shut her lips derisively
when an appeal reaches the last of
your governors, it has had time to be
forgotten by the first. My people sent
their protest. That is as it should be
but as for mel have written enough
for the waste paper baskets Of Wash
ington."
Il thought" I said. SUCCESSFULLY,
that you might have some idea of GO
ing on to Washington when Congress
meets In December, to make a personal
appeal
Lilfuokalani shook her head. IT
have" she said, mo such idea. 1 have
no ideas at all just now. 1 shall re-
main In Honolulu. I shall live here, I
believe. l worked very hard for my
people, for my country, for my cause
Wnlie was away in foreign land, and
as you Know, worked in vain. have
returned here to take up the life lived
DeIore went away; life of retire
ment among my friends, my books. nv
thoughts. I am now. more than avar
a woman in private life"
She spoke with indescribehl a b,t+ar-
ness. = A woman In private life is sup
posed to be sheltered from the Ills
which vex a Queen, but one must he
born to these safe joys to relish them.
No Queen deposed has ever vet ac-
CURED the taste, and have known an
lnconspfcuous nobody or two who would
nave given their ears to wear a crown
or even shabby little coronet. And.
OF course, under one or the other of
these decorative circumstances ears
would not be missed.
1 hear" said Liliuokalani, that IT
was not so gay over there as some per-
sons expected"
1T was not gay at all. Nearly every
one was weeping"
Ah!' said the Queen, coIdly. 'eWhv
should they weep"
You mean it is for your people, not
ours, to weep. There is such a. thing
as sympathy. / wish you could know
perhaps you do-how many hearts were
filled with that
l know" she interrupted. 81 know"
Admiral Miller himself" I said.
"Ahl yes, 1 have heard"
And" I said. "all Americans who
love their own Flag"
The Queen made a sudden movement.
If it had been yours!" she said sharp
ly. IF 1t had been your Flag"
AS If that were not what have been
thinking ever since 1 came here to think
about it at all!
II said that my day was quiet" she
went on passionately. 81 said it was
humdrum. 1 said that I put my mind
on other things" She laid her hand
touchingly to her breast. But that is
not here. OF my heart 1 do not speak.
Ny heart is my country, my flag, my
people. My heart is Hawaii"