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
Laielohelohe's house without being seen; almost twice ten days he lay in
wait; then he saw Laielohelohe stringing _lehua_ blossoms. He came
repeatedly many days; there she was stringing _lehua_ 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 middle of the
night come up here to me, and we two will go to Laielohelohe's place."

Halaaniani went away, and close to the appointed time, then he arose and
joined his sister. His sister took a _ti_-leaf trumpet and went with her
brother, and came close to the place where Laielohelohe was wont to
string _lehua_ blossoms.

Then Malio said to Halaaniani, "You climb up in the _lehua_ tree where
you can see Laielohelohe, and there you stay. Listen to me play on the
_ti_-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 _lehua_ blossoms.

Then Halaaniani climbed up the trunk of a tree and kept watch. When he
was up the tree, Malio's trumpet sounded, again it sounded a second
time, so on until the fifth time, but Halaaniani did not see the girl
turn her eyes or listen to the sound.

Malio waited for Halaaniani to return and tell what he had seen, but as
he did not return, Malio again blew on the trumpet five times; still
Halaaniani did not see Laielohelohe pay the least attention until she
went away altogether.

Halaaniani came back and t