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pointed me, and
have sought you; and when I arrived, I found you with that woman.
Therefore we are square; I have nothing to complain of your you have
nothing to complain of me; therefore, leave this woman this very night."
Now his wife's words seemed right to her husband; but at Laielohelohe's
last request to separate them from their sinful companionship, then was
kindled the fire of Hinaikamalama's hot love for Kekalukaluokewa.
Hinaikamalama returned home to Haneoo to live; every day that
Hinaikamalama stayed at her chief-house, she was wont to sit at the door
of the house and turn her face to Kauwiki, for the hot love that wrapped
her about.
One day, as the princess sought to ease the love she bore to
Kekalukaluokewa, she climbed Kaiwiopele with her attendants, and sat
there with her face turned toward Kauwiki, facing Kahalaoaka, and as the
clouds rested there right above Honokalahi then the heart of the
princess was benumbed with love for her lover; then she chanted a little
song, as follows:
Like a gathering cloud love settles upon me,
Thick darkness wraps my heart.
A stranger perhaps at the door of the house,
My eyes dance.
It may be they weep, alas!
I shall be weeping for you.
As flies the sea spray of Hanualele,
Right over the heights of Honokalani.
My high one! So it is I feel.
After this song she wept, and seeing her weep, her attendants wept with
her.
They sat there until evening, then they returned to the house; her
parents and her attendants commanded her to eat, but she had no appetite
for food because of her love.
It was the same with Kekalukaluokewa, for when Hinaikamalama left
Kekalukaluokewa that night, when Laielohelohe came, the chief was not
happy, but he endured it for some days after their separation.
And on the day when Hinaikamalama went up on Kaiwiopele, that same
night, he went to Hinaikamalama without Laielohelohe's knowledge, for
she was asleep.
While Hinaikamalama lay awake, sleepless for love, entered
Kekalukaluokewa, without the knowledge of anyone in the chief's house.
When Kekalukaluokewa came, he went right to the place where the princess
slept, took the woman by the head and wakened her.
Then Hinaikamalama's heart leaped with the hope it was her lover; now
when she seized him it was in truth the one she had hoped for. Then she
called out to the attendants to light the lamps, and at dawn
Kekalukaluokewa returned to his true wife, Laielohel
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