hen he had some check to his passion,
then he returned to the heavens to his wife, Laieikawai. He had not been
ten days there when, he was again thick-pressed by the thunders of his
evil lust, and he could not hold out against it.

To ease this passion he was again forced down below to meet
Laielohelohe.

And having heard that her guardian who bound her must give his consent,
he first sought Kapukaihaoa and asked his consent to the chief's
purpose.

So he went first and said to Kapukaihaoa: "I wish to unite myself with
Laielohelohe for a time, not to take her away altogether, but to ease my
heavy heart of its lust after your foster child; for I first begged my
boon of her, but she sent me for your consent, and so I have come to
you."

Said Kapukaihaoa: "High one of the highest, I grant your request, my
high one; it is well for you to go in to my foster child; for no good
has come to me from my charge. It was our strong desire, mine and hers
who took care of your wife Laieikawai, that Kekalukaluokewa should be
our foster child's husband; very good, but in settling the rule over the
islands, the gain has gone to others and I have nothing. For he has
given all the islands to your sisters, and I have nothing, the one who
provided him with his wife; so it will be well, in order to avoid a
second misfortune, that you have the wife for the two of you."

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 me