What harm had you refused? I referred the matter to you because
of your binding me not to keep companionship with anyone; I thought you
would keep your oath; not so!"
Said Kapukaihaoa, "I allowed you to be another's because your husband
gave me no gifts; for in my very face your husband's gifts were given to
others; there I stood, then you were gone. Little he thought of me from
whom he got his wife."
Said Laielohelohe to her foster father, "If that is why you have given
me over to sin with Kaonohiokala, then you have done very wrong, for you
know the rulers over the islands were not appointed by Kekalukaluokewa,
but by Kaonohiokala; and therefore to-morrow I will go on board a double
canoe and set sail to seek my husband."
That very evening she commanded her retainers, those who guarded the
chief's canoe, to get the canoe ready to set sail to seek the husband.
And not wishing to meet Kaonohiokala, she hid inside the country
people's houses where he would not come, lest Kaonohiokala should come
again and sin with her against her wish; so she fled to the country
people's houses, but he did not come until that night when she had left
and was out at sea.
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