The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-07-19
A ROMANCE
Of HAWAII
Love Tale Mixed
With Revolution
airy Plot.
KAlUL.ANl AND
HER FRIEND LILA
Piece of Fiction by Miriam Nj.
cheIson in Lurrcni Number
of a Magazine.

y very pretty story of Hawaiian life
with just enough love and romance tc
give fascinating color to very inter.
esting tale of the Princess Kaiulani is
the leading article in the July number
Of the Black Cat, n bright and breezy
magazine published in Boston by the
Short Story Publishing Co. The story
is from the pen of Miriam Nicholson
the well-known and popular San Fran
cisco authoress. She has given the title
of An Understudy for Princess" to
her fanciful tale of Island life, and, like
all stories with a flavor of politics, of
intrigue, her version of an abortive at
tempt to place the Princess upon the
throne vacated by Queen Liliuokalani
has a peculiar interest.
The hero of the story is Arthur Jer-
drum, a London clubman, much tray
eled IS companion of his father, a
scientist and civil engineer, VINO had
been the friend ana adviser OF the
Queen, Liiuokalani. The son had been
a playmate of the Princess, years spent
in Egypt, India and Australia had not
obliterated his memory of the childhood
days spent in the Hawaiian Islands, and
with the talk of annexation to the
United States an idea began slowly to
take root in his mind-an idea which
for an Englishman was not surprising.
Annexation was to him gross injustice
to the Queen, and with firmly fixed
plan in his mind he arrived in the Unit
ed States in the spring of '9S. His pur-
pose was to free the Hawaiians, to re-
place the Queen upon the throne, or,
better still. to have her abdicate her
rights to the younger, more beautiful
and popular Princess Kaiulani
The Princess was in San Francisco
upon his arrival, and he lost no time in
seeking her out. Her friend and COM
panion, Lila Lauzon, was with her
when the Londoner sent up his card. To
the Princess the printed pasteboard
card brought no recolections of the
past and, busy with an engagement,
she playfully suggested to Miss LauZon
that she play the part of the Princess.
AS she hurried off to keep the engage
ment, she recollected the Jerdrum of
her youth. and, with an admonition to
Lila to treat him well for old times
sake, left the room.
over the oddness of the situation, fell
into the humor of her role and met the |
London adventurer as IAN Understudy
for Princess" greeting him as the
Kalulani of his childhood; Jerdrum
launched almost Immediately into his |
project, stopping only long enough to
pay homage to the mimic princess by ,
kissing her hand an act which sent the |
blood rushing to her forehead.
The girl is an ardent royalist and the
dream of her life Is to see the Princess
Kaiulani upon the throne. She has oft
en- argued this to the princess, but the
latter is contented, and characterizes
all such ideas as foolish and imprac-
ticable. To this girl temporarily essay
Ing the role of the Princess and now
with the hope of lettering
the condition of the girl she loves better
than life, Jerdrum unfolds his plan
plan which he has spent long months II
IN maturing. The isolated Islands, cut K
Dff from rapid communication with the
outside world, the wronEed natives out !
numbering the white men twenty to |
'ne the abdlcation OF the Queen in ia I
'or OF her niece, the Princess--a lea Ter !
whom every Hawaiian loved and would
ollow, for whom It was an easy mat I
Here is the harbor of Honolulu +"
Ierdrum concludes after stirring the /
girl by recital OF the 7
"ronFs Of her friend and the ease with '
which they might be remedled. Here a
5 Diamond Head, where arms may be Il
ashore. Here ia your place @
Princess, at Waikiki, where they shall
70 delivered. At this point and at this.
telephone and telegraph wires
hall be cut Here Is the Government
uildinE, of which ten thousand armed r
1awaians shall take possession in a o
light, almost without bloodshed. for h
he native police are with us the mo- t
tent their Queen shall call upon them. Y
before our enemies can communi- y
ate with any vessel in the harbor the &
Donarchy viii be re-established and no p
'reign power may interfere. Then YOU b
'ill make me your Minister OF War W
erhaps, Princess, and after that II the 81
.anaka let's the independence Of his OF
1untry slip through his fingers the u
hite man Is welcome 10 H." b.
The effect OF words like these upon n n
oman like Lila may easily be mag e
ed and the imposshility OF revealing ca
r. true identity 10 Jerdrum made moro Id
'ldent, The huthoress very cleverly "
'pets the result ~ this conversation n
q letter written by the Princess from Ia
onolum, where the two girls have gone b.
ron the urging ~ Lllia. The latter f. ai
aalthy and IN sole control 81 her for no
ne. which she II using lnylshly IN an 4,
tempt n gain the throne fnr KaIu. ii
NJ q fact which the latter does not an
speei as Il evidenced ny The tone ~ HI
r. letter Al unsuspsrtinr. the prln. 90
IS Il accompanying her on her four. ul
So - the fiHefsnt Islands. whore "a its
meets The native IlaNailana ara mI