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The wife agreed.
Early in the morning Laieikawai sought her counsellors, the sisters of
Aiwohikupua, and told them what the husband had proposed that night, and
this pleased her counsellors.
Laieikawai said to them, "We two are going to the sea, as our husband
wishes. You wait; do not be anxious if ten days pass and our husband has
not had enough of the sport of surf riding; but if more than ten days
pass, some evil has befallen us; then come to my help."
They departed and came to a place just above Keaau; then Halaaniani
began to make trouble for Laieikawai, saying, "You go ahead to the coast
and I will go up and see your sister-in-law, Malio, and return. And if
you wait for me until day follows night, and night again that day, and,
again the day succeeds the night, then you will know that I am dead;
then marry another husband."
This proposal of her husband's did not please the wife, and she proposed
their going up together, but the slippery fellow used all his cunning,
and she was deceived.
Halaaniani left her. Laieikawai went on to Keaau, and at a place not
close to Kekalukaluokewa, there she remained; and night fell, and the
husband did not return; day came, and he did not return.
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