When Malio heard the story she told her brother what to do to win
Laielohelohe, and said to Halaaniani, "Go now, and in the middle of the
night come up here to me, and we two will go to Laielohelohe's place."
Halaaniani went away, and close to the appointed time, then he arose and
joined his sister. His sister took a _ti_-leaf trumpet and went with her
brother, and came close to the place where Laielohelohe was wont to
string _lehua_ blossoms.
Then Malio said to Halaaniani, "You climb up in the _lehua_ tree where
you can see Laielohelohe, and there you stay. Listen to me play on the
_ti_-leaf trumpet; when I have blown five times, if you see her turn her
eyes to the place where the sound comes from, then we shall surely win,
but if she does not look toward where I am playing, then we shall not
win to-day."
As they were speaking there was a crackling in the bushes at the place
where Laielohelohe strung _lehua_ blossoms, and when they looked, there
was Laielohelohe breaking _lehua_ blossoms.
Then Halaaniani climbed up the trunk of a tree and kept watch. When he
was up the tree, Malio's trumpet sounded, again it sounded a second
time, so on until the fifth time, but Halaaniani did not see the girl
turn her eyes or listen to the sound.
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