"This is a very strange affair,"said Lopaka;"and I fear you will be in trouble about this bottle.But there is one point very clear -that you are sure of the trouble,and you had better have the profit in the bargain.Make up your mind what you want with it;give the order,and if it is done as you desire,I will buy the bottle myself;for I have an idea of my own to get a schooner,and go trading through the islands.""That is not my idea,"said Keawe;"but to have a beautiful house and garden on the Kona Coast,where I was born,the sun shining in at the door,flowers in the garden,glass in the windows,pictures on the walls,and toys and fine carpets on the tables,for all the world like the house I was in this day -only a storey higher,and with balconies all about like the King's palace;and to live there without care and make merry with my friends and relatives.""Well,"said Lopaka,"let us carry it back with us to Hawaii;and if all comes true,as you suppose,I will buy the bottle,as Isaid,and ask a schooner."
Upon that they were agreed,and it was not long before the ship returned to Honolulu,carrying Keawe and Lopaka,and the bottle.
They were scarce come ashore when they met a friend upon the beach,who began at once to condole with Keawe.
"I do not know what I am to be condoled about,"said Keawe.
"Is it possible you have not heard,"said the friend,"your uncle -that good old man -is dead,and your cousin -that beautiful boy -was drowned at sea?"
Keawe was filled with sorrow,and,beginning to weep and to lament,he forgot about the bottle.But Lopaka was thinking to himself,and presently,when Keawe's grief was a little abated,"I have been thinking,"said Lopaka."Had not your uncle lands in Hawaii,in the district of Kau?""No,"said Keawe,"not in Kau;they are on the mountain-side -a little way south of Hookena.""These lands will now be yours?"asked Lopaka.
"And so they will,"says Keawe,and began again to lament for his relatives.
"No,"said Lopaka,"do not lament at present.I have a thought in my mind.How if this should be the doing of the bottle?For here is the place ready for your house.""If this be so,"cried Keawe,"it is a very ill way to serve me by killing my relatives.But it may be,indeed;for it was in just such a station that I saw the house with my mind's eye.""The house,however,is not yet built,"said Lopaka.