The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 569 pages of information about The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai.

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 569 pages of information about The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai.

At the end of their secret conference, Kapukaihaoa went with the chief to Laielohelohe.

Said he, “My ward, here is the husband, be ruled by him; heavens above, earth beneath; a solid fortune, nothing can shake its foundation; and look to the one who bore the burden.”

Then Laielohelohe dismissed her doubts; and Kaonohiokala took Laielohelohe and they took their pleasure together.

Three days after, Kaonohiokala returned to Kahakaekaea.

And after he had been some days absent, the pangs of love caught him fast, and changed his usual appearance.

Then on the fourth day of their separation, he told a lie to Laieikawai and said, “This was a strange night for me, I never slept, there was a drumming all night long.”

Said Laieikawai, “What was it?”

Said Kaonohiokala, “Perhaps the people below are in trouble.”

“Perhaps so,” said Laieikawai.  “Why not go down and see?”

And at his wife’s mere suggestion, in less than no time Kaonohiokala was below in the companionship of Laielohelohe.  But Laielohelohe never thought of harm; what was that to her mind!

When they met at the chief’s wish.  Laielohelohe did not love Kaonohiokala, for the princess did not wish to commit sin with the great chief from the heavens, but to satisfy her guardian’s greed.

After perhaps ten days of these evil doings, Kaonohiokala returned above.

Then Laielohelohe’s love for Kekalukaluokewa waxed and grew because she had fallen into sin with Kaonohiokala.

One day in the evening Laielohelohe said to Kapukaihaoa, “My good guard and protector, I am sorry for my sin with Kaonohiokala, and love grows within me for Kekalukaluokewa, my husband; good and happy has been our life together, and I sinned not by my own wish, but through your wish alone.  What harm had you refused?  I referred the matter to you because of your binding me not to keep companionship with anyone; I thought you would keep your oath; not so!”

Said Kapukaihaoa, “I allowed you to be another’s because your husband gave me no gifts; for in my very face your husband’s gifts were given to others; there I stood, then you were gone.  Little he thought of me from whom he got his wife.”

Said Laielohelohe to her foster father, “If that is why you have given me over to sin with Kaonohiokala, then you have done very wrong, for you know the rulers over the islands were not appointed by Kekalukaluokewa, but by Kaonohiokala; and therefore to-morrow I will go on board a double canoe and set sail to seek my husband.”

That very evening she commanded her retainers, those who guarded the chief’s canoe, to get the canoe ready to set sail to seek the husband.

And not wishing to meet Kaonohiokala, she hid inside the country people’s houses where he would not come, lest Kaonohiokala should come again and sin with her against her wish; so she fled to the country people’s houses, but he did not come until that night when she had left and was out at sea.

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