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"Why, Willis is running things to
suit himself. Blount it appears, in
his report, made LiliuokaIani the EN-
bodiment of all the graces, who had
been shamefully abused and put down
by horde Of riotous rufiaus who had
no interest in order. Think of iti
When the American League owns
more than three-fifths of the cultivat-
ed land. L had conference with
Dole to-day. He is terribly worked
up. Blount came simply to collect
evidence to destroy Dole's government,
an yet he came in. friendly guise. y
"What has actually been done?" 1
asked.
"Willis sent communication de-
manding the restoration of the queen.
He demands that the provisional
government step down and out and
Liliuok kalani resume control. More
than that, he has had an interview
with the queen and offered to restore
her to the throne and to use the United
States forces to do it,"
'Incrediblel Would they dare?"
'He says they will do it. Dole will
not submit He says he will. fight
first. We have at least 5000 able
bodied men who will take up arms.
But 1 hope it will not come to that.
But if it does, you will have chance
to wear a uniform"
81 do not aspire to military honors,
but if it stands between Llliuokalaui,
opium and misrule on one side, against
war on the other, | am in for war. 1t
could be no worse if we were beaten.
mo. Nothing could be worse than
to be under the queen, with her new
constitution, or, rather, no constitu-
tion."
sit does not seem possible" said
my uncle, ''that the United States
Government could stoop to so undig-
nitied position. If Willis's propo-
sition is carried out, as Dole and 1
attempted to tell him yesterday, it
will mean death and ruin to us all.
have said little to Tom about it. Poor
fellow He has enough on his mind
now. But the position is very seri-
Gus. The queen has declared tina. if
she regains her power she will cause
the leaders Of Liberals to be behea1ed
and con6scats their property. That,
of course, means Dole, Warren, Sell
don, Seacamp aud myself, not to speak
of the many others. Aud no doubt
Gordon would 60 first of all, on ac-
count of his action when the queen
expected the army to stand by her.
Gordon patted his sword.
Some OF the queens gang of ruff
ans had better take care, or they will
60 before 1 do"
1t remains to be seen," continued
my uncle, whether Willis is simply
barking or if he is really going to bite.
He may be bluffing, to scare us. But we
shall not be forced outof our position.
Dole is firm on that point. So AN 1.
II they crowd us to the wall we must
fight"
Uncle Tom set his teeth hard and
turned away. 1 asked Gordon, as L
asked him every time saw him, if he
had news of Winnie.
NO." he said, sadly, yet savagely,
mot word. But it cannot go on
like this forever. Surely there is news
to be had, if we can only strike the
right trail. Sharp, the lieutenant in
charge at Maui, reports that he thought
he had clue, but it came to nothing.
In Hawaii they are overhauliug every
town and village. Ii we could only
get some of these dod-rotted natives
to help us we would learn something,
but they are with the queen, mostly,
and if they know anything, Keep their
mouths we'll shut"
1t was thus always. I was growing
ill under the awful suspense. Yet
could not give up hope.