Laieikawai asked, "Why were you gone four months? You have not done so
before."
Said Kaonohiokala, "Laielohelohe has had trouble with her husband;
Kekalukaluokewa has taken a stranger to wife, and this is why I was so
long away."
Then Laieikawai said to her husband, "Get your wife and bring her up
here and let us live together."
Therefore, Kaonohiokala left Laieikawai and went away, as Laieikawai
thought, to carry out her command. Not so!
On this journey Kaonohiokala stayed away a year; now Laieikawai did not
think her husband's long stay strange, she laid it to Laielohelohe's
troubles with Kekalukaluokewa.
Then she longed to see how it was with her sister, so Laieikawai went to
her father-in-law and asked, "How can I see how it is with my sister,
for I have heard from my husband and high one that Laielohelohe is
having trouble with Kekalukaluokewa, and so I have sent Kaonohiokala to
fetch the woman and return hither; but he has not come back, and it is a
year since he went, so give me power to see to that distant place to
know how it is with my relatives."
Then said Moanalihaikawaokele, her father-in-law, "Go home and look for
your mother-in-law; if she is asleep, then go into the taboo temple; if
you see a gourd plaited with straw and feathers mounted on the edge of
the cover, that is the gourd.
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