524 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 83 
When Halaaniani told Laieikawai he was going up to see Malio, 
this was in order to get away from her after giving her his com- 
mands. 
The fellow went up and met Malio. His sister asked. “ What have 
you come up here for?” 
Said Halaaniani, “I have come up here to you once more to show 
you what I desire, for I have again seen a beautiful woman with a 
face like Laieikawai’s. 
“Yesterday morning when I went outside my house I saw this 
young girl with the lovely face; then a great longing took possession 
of me. 
“And because I remembered that you were the one who fulfilled 
my wishes, therefore I have come up here again.” 
Said Malio to her brother, “That is Laielohelohe, another of 
Waka’s grandchildren; she is betrothed to Kekalukaluokewa, to be 
his wife. Therefore go and watch the girl’s house without being 
seen for four days, and see what she does; then come back and tell 
me; then I will send you to seduce the girl. I can not do it by my 
power, for they are two.” 
At these words of Malio, Halaaniani went to spy outside of Laie- 
lohelohe’s house without being seen; almost twice ten days he lay in 
wait; then he saw Laielohelohe stringing Jehua blossoms. He came 
repeatedly many days; there she was stringing /ehua blossoms. 
Halaaniani returned to his sister as he had been directed. and told 
her what he had seen of Laielohelohe. 
When Malio heard the story she told her brother what to do to 
win Laielohelohe, and said to Halaaniani, “ Go now, and in the mid- 
dle of the night come up here to me, and we two will go to Laielo- 
helohe’s place.” 
Halaaniani went away, and close to the appointed time, then he 
arose and joined his sister. His sister took a ¢/-leaf trumpet and 
went with her brother, and came close to the place where Laielohelohe 
was wont to string /ehua blossoms. 
Then Malio said to Halaaniani, “ You climb up in the Jehua tree 
where you can see Laielohelohe, and there you stay. Listen to me 
play on the ¢i-leaf trumpet; when I have blown five times, if you 
see her turn her eyes to the place where the sound comes from, then 
we shall surely win, but if she does not look toward where I am 
playing, then we shall not win to-day.” 
As they were speaking there was a crackling in the bushes at the 
place where Laielohelohe strung lehua blossoms, and when they 
looked, there was Laielohelohe breaking /ehua blossoms. 
