were repeated so frequently that Kauhi
finally came to believe them, and they so filled him with jealous
rage of his betrothed that he determined to kill her. He started for
Manoa at dawn, and proceeded as far as Mahinauli, in mid-valley,
where he rested under a hala (_Pandanus odoratissimus_) tree that
grew in the grove of wiliwili (_Erythrina monosperma_). He sat there
some time, brooding over the fancied injury to himself, and nursing
his wrath. Upon resuming his walk he broke off and carried along with
him a bunch of hala nuts. It was quite noon when he reached Kahaiamano
and presented himself before the house of Kahalaopuna. The latter had
just awakened from a sleep, and was lying on a pile of mats facing
the door, thinking of going to the spring, her usual bathing-place,
when she perceived a stranger at the door.

She looked at him some time and, recognizing him from oft repeated
descriptions, asked him to enter; but Kauhi refused, and asked her
to come outside. The young girl had been so accustomed from early
childhood to consider herself as belonging to Kauhi, and of being
indebted to him, as it were, for her daily food, that she obeyed
him unhesitatingly.

He perhaps intended to kill her then, but the girl's unhesitating
obedience as well as her extreme loveliness made him hesitate for a
while; and after looking intently at her for some time he told her
to go and bathe and then prepare herself to accompany him in a ramble
about the woods.

While Kahalaopuna was bathing, Kauhi remained moodily seated where
she had left him, and watched the bright glow, like rainbow rays,
playing above the spring. He was alternately filled with jealousy,
regret, and longing for the great beauty of the girl; but that did
not make him relent in his dreadful purpose. He seemed to resent his
betrothed's supposed infidelity the more because she had thrown herself
away on such unworthy persons, who were, besides, ugly and disfigured,
while he, Kauhi, was not only a person of rank and distinction,
but possessed also of considerable manly beauty.

When she was ready he motioned her to follow him, and turned to go
without a word. They went across Kumakaha to Hualea, when the girl
said, "Why don't you stay and have something to eat before we go?"

He answered rather surlily, "I don't care to eat; I have no appetite."

He looked so sternly at her as he said this that she cried out to him,
"Are you annoyed with me? Have I displeased y