The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-20

several mysterious deaths ndppeheu II
the Palolo Valley. appears in the Jul!
number of Munsey's Magazine:
one glorious morning in April, hay
ing finished his breakfast on the Ia
mai. DR.. Karl Furtzhofer stood, boot
ed and spurred, opening the blacl
leather flaps of his pocket cases to as
sure himself that each tiny vial con
tanned it's quota of concentrated relief
Slipping the emergency cases into hi
pockets, he took out small red mo-
rocco notebook, and reviewed his en-
! gagements for the day. kawemanu'
| baby-meningitis Mrs. Pualani Adam:
complicated hysteria. Poicoi-mea-
sles. Samoan girl, at the hat-makers
settlement-dog bite. Lunch with dear
Theresa. Below the luncheon engage
| ment was blurred note concerning
| golf at Moanalua; but it would GER
tainly be too warm.
| FurtZhofer put up the memoranda
mounted his horse. and rode down to
the embowered gateway. AS he turned
| into the road a voice hailed him, and
Loki, the guardian of his childhood, his
native nurse, ran up gasping.
"Hello!" he exclaimed cheerily. "In
town today, hey? Go in and tell Kiku
to give you a drink of gin; it's on the
| sideboard."
Loki shook her head. Thank you,
not now. Oh. Aka, we have pilikias-
| troubles-up the valley. Five are dead
already by anana, and two are sick.
They would not have me come, but I
told them how the kauka's father had
been the greatest doctor that ever
lived. I kept on telling them until
they have made answer that you must
come and help. They will keep moth
ing back from you"
She spoke all in one breath, as one
having learned a speech by heart.
Karl's spirits leaped with delight. At
last he would be able to study the mys-
terious working of the death prayers
the terrible incarnation that subtly
and surely annihilates an enemy. by
what power the gods of ancient Ha-
wall alone can tell.
Truly, yes. 1 will come" he an
swered gravely. Tuna he called to
the stable boy, put Fussy to the run
about, and Happahaolie back into his
stall. My other patients will have to
wait"
He smiled at his old nurse as she
waddisd beside him to the house, her
ample form swaying from side to side
in its wonderful cabbage-patterned
purple hoIoku.
"And now, my DEAR he went on
"sit here on the steps and tell me all
about these people. Who are they?
Not your own family, know, because
then you would be in a black mother
hubbard and sporting ten inches of
/, r,lx Il
style!"
Loki grinned and patted the young
mans knee fondly.
True, true" she said. speaking in
English; mot my people, Karlie-not
yet-but my sister Liliha is very sick
Pains here and here" She placed one
hand upon her stomach and the other to
her brow. "She get into quarrel be-
cause when Neula, the kahuna, come
the last time to the house of Kaala,
my sister tell her it was wickedness
and sin that she pray innocent ones
to death because she have ill-feeling
to the family. Neula turn on her and
say: When I am done with this one. /,
I pray you down, also Liliha come
tell me. for she very frightened. Pret-
ty soon Kaala die, quick, because Ne
ula look at her through the window. |
Then my sister come sick. She cry
all night and no sleep, because she
'fraid Neula get her. Daytime all
same. cry, cry. Twice every day the
kahuna come. Walk by house. end
look. Liliha, she scream and cry ont
that she going die sure. Her man talk
to her. talk and we send for the min
ster come talk-no good. She get more
sick and more sick. Then tell her:
I go get my kauka's son. His father
was a great kahuna. and for many
year Karlie go learn be n kauka him
self in other countries. He speaks ma
i've. he knows native man. ard he will
save for the sake of old Loki, who
Nurse him when he little boy"
''Who is this Neula?" asked Karl,
leeply interested.
''Neula? She is the daughter of Mo.
Who was kahuna on Lanai. She fall in
Owe with Amosa Brown-happahaoli
lalf white: but Kaala's sister. she take
lin away from her. Then Neula. she
ray first Amosa Brown to death. then
he anana AlilIa. then Kaala, and the
ather and mother, and the cousin I
-ouika, who lived with them. She
wear she kill all the family, every one. {
" sister and Eanaka. named Sofa.
hey say 70 Neula. they going to tell
Iarshal Brown and have her arrested.
Vow Sofa and Liliha both very. very I
lex. Ready go now?" she asked, as
Karl sprang TO his feet.
Yes he answered. flushed with ex-
itement. Here is the runabout You
rant a 'pros't first. eh?"
He led the old woman into the din i
nsroom. and poured out a tumblerful q
I neat gin. She tossed it down her !
pen throat without wiuking. Z
Ale, Good." b
Come on. Lolli. my overblown rose,' n
aid the doctor I
He assisted her bulky form to the p
Eat. took his place beside her in the g
zap, and the sturdy young trotter n
NunE forward. They spun along the o
'ft park road Of KaDiolani. by the q
lee-track and barracks toward the b
MS. When they reached the valley W
'ad it proved to be as stony. muddy. a
nd inpassa BILE as only Hawaiian "
'ad can be: but they cIattered and
lmped over it AT good pace.
Palolo Valley is surrounded on Ill