But the next day came very brightly,and that new house of his was so delightful to behold that he forgot his terrors.One day followed another,and Keawe dwelt there in perpetual joy.He had his place on the back porch;it was there he ate and lived,and read the stories in the Honolulu newspapers;but when anyone came by they would go in and view the chambers and the pictures.And the fame of the house went far and wide;it was called KA-HALE NUI-the Great House -in all Kona;and sometimes the Bright House,for Keawe kept a Chinaman,who was all day dusting and furbishing;and the glass,and the gilt,and the fine stuffs,and the pictures,shone as bright as the morning.As for Keawe himself,he could not walk in the chambers without singing,his heart was so enlarged;and when ships sailed by upon the sea,he would fly his colours on the mast.
So time went by,until one day Keawe went upon a visit as far as Kailua to certain of his friends.There he was well feasted;and left as soon as he could the next morning,and rode hard,for he was impatient to behold his beautiful house;and,besides,the night then coming on was the night in which the dead of old days go abroad in the sides of Kona;and having already meddled with the devil,he was the more chary of meeting with the dead.A little beyond Honaunau,looking far ahead,he was aware of a woman bathing in the edge of the sea;and she seemed a well-grown girl,but he thought no more of it.Then he saw her white shift flutter as she put it on,and then her red holoku;and by the time he came abreast of her she was done with her toilet,and had come up from the sea,and stood by the track-side in her red holoku,and she was all freshened with the bath,and her eyes shone and were kind.Now Keawe no sooner beheld her than he drew rein.