"If you two weep and cease weeping and she asks you if I have taken her
clothes, then tell her you have them, and she will be ashamed and shrink
from you because she has defiled you; then she will have nothing great
enough to recompense you for your defilement, only one thing will be
great enough, to get you the high one; then when she asks you what you
desire, tell her; then you shall see your brother; we shall both see
him, for I see him only once a year; he peeps out and disappears."
At the time the father had said, the daughter arose very early in the
morning before daylight, and went as her father had directed.
When she arrived, she hid close to the water hole; not long after, the
mother came, took off her polluted clothes and sprang into the water.
Then the girl took the things as directed and returned to her father.
She had not been there long; the mother came in a rage;
Moanalihaikawaokele absented himself and only the daughter remained in
the house.
"O Moanalihaikawaokele, give me back my polluted clothes, let me take
them to wash in the water." No answer; three times she called, not once
an answer; she peeped into the house where Kahalaomapuana lay sleeping,
her head covered with a clean piece of _tapa_.
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