. it seemed. He wore white In his heart he is two-thirds native, and full of light. And then the rain “Yes! Oh, yes!" she whispered be-
B HEA | ¢ ‘down. ta. Hilo wih the might. | Guck pants and shoes, and was nak: | filed with poesy. But he Is like] oasis 85 Suddenly. Jat Nod begun: (as or Dt T—must_marey
ARUN, | "ormone ‘Sebastien bans an ac sito he vain and there was a clear waters for sweetness, e | cam How? palin RUHR Babs, Dick, an:
| gold | sun for faithfulness and like a rock clouds. They drove y me, Mother! ere is—no- left!
i? . — | and certain of himself, a planter of | BCH Of en | BI etn I love him. He is a son | little, but at the veranda “And 80 sell you,” my old
-— | sugar eam, Wn owner of sills ® and two-sixteenths French and the to me.” | eps said a vital thing. aikane's dream-child!” murmured
Bellefonte, Pa., June 17, 1882. sender of the raw, greenish-brown blood of old Englana “Aloha, friend” said Diane un- “He po hookah, a a0 ua pau,” he the Pearl Dealer
eres. | SUGAT 10 the refineries in California, | rest was good | " only in this whispered as he turned away. | Diane did not hear him, for Kaulii
NONE of such vast wealth erased slightly from the surface but steadily. “Thou art one only :
‘a man that he trafed thousand . world! No wonder my father found Diane his arm. “What Joes had risen and now held her against
—— bill Be the | Diane stopped and looked at him, so good!” it mean?” ; sang, m Ws leat. Wis Ihe Feit on Ser'Rair.
We thought that Winter, love, would among { + ~ She did not put on the alluring “ In one nigh y dawn it is man risen, too. He
never end, planters And a man of discrimina- S80 8 NOt FN inned face. coral dress, after all, for the infor- finished,” he said, translating. Then clapped his hands in pative fashion
That the dark year had slain the innocent =. . ht, Lo ¢ The Pearl Dealer looked at them mal dinner that night. Instead, she he was gone, and she went in to and a sailor came to stand at atten-
May, | ana ig oo TE ne, both and nodded. choose one of a dull, drak coicr, and face her mother. tion, From his coat pocket the Pearl
Nor hoped that your soft hand, this ide hands were on the 1 “This is Kaulii, Diane,” he said, she was abstracted, Her mother's That was a cold matter, and Diane Dealer took a little box—a little
Summer day, ! nat he nad the: beaut in “my first mate and my aikane, None Watchful eyes noted every lack of bore it with compressed lips. Late’ ho Sb Soft red ‘eivek:
Would lie, as now in mine, beloved at a 3 better, both ways.” charm and became cold. Nothing in the night she was still Gently the Pearl Dealer
friend; of her, was a. mark of his i “Im happy to meet you, Miss saved the day except Sebastien's it, her face abstracted. She was no it open, and there en iis satin bud
And, like some magic Spring, Your gw ope oo els her attestoar or oii | Diane,” said Kaulii, bowing as nat- clumsy gayety that could not vision hearing much, for in her ears was ; y— S Ered pac Long he
dream-deep eyes | love" of the He had 'urally as a native palm tree bows abstraction in his presence. the sound of Kaulile-last words: | lodked 4 t, his face inscrutable. It
Hold all the Summer skies. oss I . known in the wind. “Won't you sit down?” It was he who paid for the dinner, In one night, and by dawn it is meant many things to him. Not
many oD ve had his placed one of the chairs for Which was the best the hotel could finished. riches, merely; but achievement, and
But lo! the world again is mad with Pick of them, but not one had stir- her and Diane did sit down with her produce, and he who took them out Was it possible? Did people see romance, and the besting of the
flowers, red him as had this girl, with her ry still on him, fascinated. She into the starlit night of Hawaii in each other once and love forever secret seas. For forty years he had
The long, white silence spake, small bird C0Ol aloofness, her red-brown hair, had seen handsome men in these his American car. He held Diane's thereafter? Could they do so? That dealt in pearls and had not seen its
by bird, her gray eyes that were as deep as ialands beautiful mixtures, hand and asked her if she were not was what he meant, and her whole equal. He rolled it gently on its
Blade after blade, amid the song of the sea itself. That he had fixed his and she had found some of them well—his smoky-eyed one—that she being sang in bewildered ecstacy. satin bed. Then he turned to the
Showers; desires upon her was as obviuus as amazingly civilized, but this man Was so still. She heard her mother speak of man who stood there—a trusted
The grass stole back once more, and al the rest of the disgusting affair was start) . And Diane answered that she did Ramone and Babs and Dick, dud man,
> or
there was heard
The ancient music of vernal spheres,
Hglf laughter and half tears.
not feel the best in the Won) Bx
heat, perhaps, after the daily ns.
It did take it out of foreigners,
Sebastien said, but after a while
they were meaningless names,
the present at least, Time enough
for them next week, when the
would be sailing. Now she would
“Lanu,” he said, “take this to the
hotel. Call for the lady Mrs.
ton and give it to her. Tell her it
a price for love and happiness. Tell
Ah, love, and now too swiftly, like some first glance; Bab's eagerness; the ere Shut her soul upon its inner wealth. her it is from her h d's old
; . “Frisco?” she said, they grew accustomed to it. There Shu . 4
o Eroum, Me brides young | [TANKDESS Gf the Carrington family iene SRsPec, iE A ations, Io |” 1. think 1 go to bed, mother,” alkane, and that she is to take it to
mouth, | hough by her; even the hidden but |. Fi." said the young man. Vided one could afford trips twice a She sald Sr Te VIiRCg YS To fo re of the i ie
' ; ‘ man -ends ear. :
Toe md sein yar delious wih Ue SugESated kooviedg of the plantar SPSS E27 R0Y SSStis 0 “Wonder, ner mother was say |” Speechicss With womtul fury, der dom by the time. she receives i
' | . | ing, 1 i h .
Squanders his fairy treasure, bloom on went into Diane like a barb. She jor the most part 1 stayed in Berk IE Se at ei Se ae ue Two more days went by, days Diane will be out to sea aboard the
bloom; ‘had never thought life could trick '®Y pn SEEEATIEC. Lo our sary. Diane seemed to thrive here, that were a seething caldron of Pa, and that I, as captain, shall
Tco soon the wild rose hastens to be her like this—she who had had ber YOU must have, but she herself would soon have to Changing emotions for Diane. Her have married her to Kaulii, the fish-
sweet; dreams. ¥y : 'be running back to California. In Patience was worn beneath her erman. And you, Lanu, wait for our
Too swift, O June, thy feet.
Tarry a little, Summer, crowd not so
All glory and gladness in so brief a
, i
Teach all thy dancing flowers a step
more slow,
And bid thy wild musicians softlier play.
O hast thou thought, that like a mad-
man spends,
The longest Summer ends!
RAINS IN HILO
Diane Carrington brushed the
short curls back from her temples
If she had ever had the faintest
premonition of it she would never
have finished college—to find, later,
that it had been done on a goodly
portion of the money left at ner
father's death. That was like her
mother—u gamble on a fair chance.
Diane had been beautiful, was peau-
tiful now, at twenty-eight, and she
had the charms graces of edu-
cation,
Long before this she should |
have landed a rich husband in Cali-'
| fornia. But she hadn't And her
standing in the family's eyes had
lowered with the last three years, a
little each year.
“oll”
| reaches of the sky,
“Wasn't so hard. Just application.”
“H'm,"” said Diane. She was won-
dering, “And now what? The Sple-
mons!" |
But the old Pearl Dealer was
speaking about pearls and Kaulii
was swinging up the deck and down
a companionway, to return present-
ly with a little brass box, made in
imitation of a pirate's chest. He
opened it on the table and from it
the Pearl Dealer's brown hand
VIougnt forth enough wealth to
satisfy a nabob, He poured pearls in
Diane's lap like light down the
and the girl
fact, she thought families were bet-
ter apart. Did he not agree?
He did—heartily.
It was late when they parted
with Ramone at the hotel steps, and
her mother was not pleased with
the p made. In Diane's room
she looked at her daughter with
kesh discernment.
“Are you evading the issue of
Ramone?” she asked bluntly. “He
is ready to marry you at a moment's
notice. All he needs is encourage-
ment, He stands abashed before your
culture, your education. Can you not
give him that?”
mother's constant talk, Babs' frank
fright at the prospect of Ramone's
'loss if he should hear of their esca-
pade. The Pa would soon be
sailing |
and she would be left in Hilo—with
Ramone.
Her heart was cold with the spec-
tre of co
memories of
had only known that those years at
college were to buy her later life!
But what could she do? There was
her family and its dwindled fortunes,
ulii's eyes, Oh, if she
and only herself to sell for merchan- |
dise. That ht she wept into her
pillow and d some pitiful prayers,
anguish, hot with
next trip.”
The native raised a hand and went
swiftly away. As he ran down the
gangplank there came the rattle of
chains and the sound of engines.
| “What have you done, sir?” gasp-
ed Diane,
“Closed a deal, my daughter,” said
the old Pearl Dealer gently, “in hu-
man hearts—cheap at e price.
Come, kiss Kaulii. The ancient gods
| are waiting.”
For a moment she gazed at the
town, at the wharf,
at the golden light on sea and sky.
Then, turning in Kaulii’s arms, she
Babs was using the word opened her mouth in wonder. - but her faith was very low. held up a radiant face.
en helo, To, th, WIRY 100 often Dick, ut Stanford, was Ay Bewvent she Maid WHSDET. neovens sone Sots "oie cry In thece more days the Fa would With ul my earl and soul” she
dripping fern fronds, twelve feet chafing for a larger allowance, And ing. “I knew that the world owned “give me a little peace! Ever since sail and she would have only Ra- | A have come home-—to stay!
tall and broad as a palm leaf, that
swished and whispered in the
Trades. There was always, at this
time of day— just a little after noon |
—this strange green dimness under
the giant foliage that surrounded
the hotel, this warm wetness in the
atmosphere. Always the torrential
rains poured for a while,
There was something in the com-
bination that stirred her, that made
her blood surge slowly through her
veins with a golden heaviness.
She loved the island and the town
itself, the skies forever mottled with
their darkly glowing
clouds, the
then her mother had come to Hilo—
for her health, she said. Diane had
known better.
She knew the island's wealth, its
romantic people, mixtures of all the
| bloods in the world,
chances and opportunities. They had
been here once before, before her
father died.
Walking in the sun with the wet
earth underfoot and the sweet, rank
smell of sprouting vegetation in her
nostrils, she thought of all these
things.
its amazing
It was a shame, a beastly |
| shame, to live in Hawaii and never
know its pession and its grace—to
gems, but I have never visioned
them like this!”
“These,”” said the Pearl Dealer,
are the rank and file. Beautiful. but
common. Here is their master.”
From beneath a false bottom in
the brass chest he pulled a tiny
drawer and tipped it toward her.
Truly, there lay the master of all
pearls, the untouchable potentate of
the mysterious breed. On a bed of
pink cotton, glowing with deep fires
as dark as the mouth of Hades, it
rested in detached splendor—a black
pearl as large as the end of Diane's
middle finger.
The girl looked at it with wide
we came on this thinly camouflaged
search for a marriage for me I have
heard nothing but my culture,
my advantages! Believe me, if I'd
known the end I'd never have taken
the advantage, the culture, at the
cost of my life's happiness!”
“Is that so? And so this is what
I get for skimping for four years!
These are the thanks! And Babs
with no chance at all! And Dick
embarrassed in college. I might have
known. You're just like your fath-
er.”
“Leave him out of this!” said
Diane savagely. “He was a dreamer
mone left! Maybe she won!'d never
see Kaulii's eyes, bis red lips
curved with laughter. She walkea
in the town,
but saw no one she wanted to see.
Then there was only one day left.
| She walked again in the mo
and debated about going to the little
ship lying in the pearly harbor, but
could not bring her feet to go. May-
be, after all, she had taken too much
for granted. Maybe life had tricked
| her again.
But she did not know that life
| was reaching out a hand for her
| that very morning, in the person of
| the Pearl Dealer, who had been
—By Vingie E. Roe, in Hearst's In-
| ternational Cosmopolitan.
watching the streets,
COLLEGE GRADS
MAKE OWN JOBS
What chance does the 1932 col-
lege graduate have to get a job?
It's a mighty slim one—unless he
himself makes the job, according to
Joseph Creamer, New York Adver-
tising agency executive. Writing 1a
The Rotarian magazine, for June,
he points out that many young men
and women are | this.
“During the past year, five hun-
si 0, Bowed Tali 0 tao 0” Be hue” Fa uf To ELI 6, hide wager clone Me PRT MH rE i RE
of the sea. If she could have cast Sebastien; A he thet one ge! again, “Oh, wonder. Hisivest hu shlonte. re not 3 quitter, 5 pings a i os au face | been founded by a Wie id Poor
Would have aki sothng tie 1 he ot hand In his sot a. Sue un" OR DOM, Yon be "Forgive me. dear” Goto bad amd Lo MAE, SW fot of BE Shek BC COM OL Pavol, of ie
existence. But who can cast his! ; Said; “wonderful. For forty years I don't worry. I'll come through—for oYing
Her wide gray eyes were dry and
have hunted 1s, and I have yet
and Dick and Babs.”
weary lids, the droo mouth, the
them think for themselves; the loss
life? she thought bitterly. Who, ac- deep with the inner of her ” j you | lines of n it. And that af- of their jobs has urged them to do
cording to the old precept, can live thoughts. She walked abst a tedly. [30 Jee is Ral He Sook 1 i Wand For two days Diane stayed close ternoon the old’ man sent a note to what they considered the impossible,
to himself alone? Not she, at any And thea, at the edge of 10W | gaid. “Its texture and its weight’ to the hotel. She drank in scents Dian | “Two men who showed
rate.
She dropped the brush. Which
dress for tonight? The green geor-
gette was pale as a shallow tide,
She |
frosted with a foam of lace.
liked it, but it seemed to belong to
a different mood, not this hard bril-
liant one of cold reason. No, not
the green. The coral, perhaps, so-
phisticated and alluring.
coral.
She moved restlessly on the stool
before the dressing table, She was
always moving these days. She was
becoming as fidgety as Babs, who
was a perfect specimen of modern
youth, always on the fly. always
just going somewhere or just return- |
ing. And with the thought there
came the sharp rat-tat of the girl's
hard young fist on the door.
“Come in!" called Diane.
Yes, the
|
buildinged little street that was
Hilo’'s heart, she met the Pearl
| Dealer. To meet the Pearl Dealer
it was a blessing.
“Oh!” she said, stretching out an
impulsive hand. “It's you, my
friend!”
“Always,” said he who stood be-
fore her with his Panama hat in-
stantly off, his immaculate white
linens looking as if he had not yet
was a privilege at any time, Today,
| there was some
sat down in them. He was a small
fan, Giowy a3 a Noua bert,
e
thick thatch of hair above re-
the
markable eyes as white as that!
foam at the island mountain's foot.
No one knew his age, except that it
was very great. His manners were
flawless and beautiful, tinged and as she never had been conscious of Kaulii,”
colored by sincerity and tolerance. anyone or anything in her life. She “I'd love
| The Pearl Dealer knew so much of
|
i
i
Like silk the one; like quicksilver |
the other. i
For an hour they talked of pearls,
of their marts in the world, of the
sunlight in these tropic isles, of the!
values of life and its soulless shams. |
The Pearl Dealer knew so much of |
life and its ways, and his deep eyes
had been Diane's face ever
since her arrival in Hilo, whenever
they chanced to meet. He knew
amiss with her,
though he did not speak of it,
And Kaulii sat leaning forward,
his great black eyes on Diane's face,
unconscious of his golden, e
torso, his amazing con ons. |
But Diane was conscious of him |
the music of his voice; saw!
of flowers and vegetation, and ach-'
with too much beauty. To live in
0 alwa but to live here with
Ramone! Her heart contracted with
ah icy chill. Life was asking a lot
And then Kaulii appeared on the
hotel veranda asking for her. He
was clad in white from neck to toe,
and he carried a bunch of hibiscus.
It was morning and bright as shine
of sun and sparkle of sea could
| make it.
“Will you come with me for
ride, Diane?” he asked simply.
have the captain's car.”
Diane felt her face get red, #nd
then a cool s flowed up from
her leaping heart. “Why, of course,
she, heard herself saying.
“Kaulii?” said her mother thinly.
a
“1
e.
My daughter (it read), your
father's old aikane would see you
before sailing—which matter takes:
' place at twilight. Would
| aboard the Pa a little while?
' man who gives you this is driving
| my car and will bring you safe.
| Diane snatched up a wrap, thank-
u come
| ful that both Babs and her mothéf
And the rain was
were sleeping.
| ceasing; the opaline world was smil-
| ing to the sun.
It was a little ride to the wharf,
an unbelievably short time until the
old man was leading her up the
gangplank, until she was looking,
breathless, into Kaulii's face and he
was holding her hand, leading her to
| a chair beneath the striped awning.
| A sailor brought tea and cakes, and
glamour was on the world again.
The
young
marked ability on their college pub-
lications have deserted the East and
have established a weekly publica-
tion in a Western community of 900
people. Three years ago they might
have found employment with some
arge newspaper or magazine,
“A 1931 vi graduate wan-
dered around for six months grab-
hg odd jobs—then he created a
% for himself. He secured an
interview with one of the executives
of a fruit importing house in New
York, stated his condition, and ma
ped out his idea briefly. Now he fs
making from thirty to forty-five dol-
lars per week rk Ms articles that
e man needs, to the employees
| of this fruit company’s liners.
"A young woman who came to me
a few months ago looking for ad-
| vice on the choice of work that
{ . i tial
“Whee-ew! This is what call life. the curves of his that turned up | “Diane, who is this? A fisherman?" They talked of inconsequential 14 support her for the time be-
wet, if you asked me!” hat Xo vital “I haven't seen you for several at the corners with laughter; could “Hardly, dear. He is the Pearl awhile and the Pearl Dealer ing" continues Mr. Creamer, “has
presence of Babs filled the room. weeks,” said Diane. “Where have NOt keep her gaze from his | Dealer's first mate, and his aikane, Watched her, his kind brown eyes opened a college fashion bureau in a
“Where've you ie 2” you been, sir?” eyes. She felt as if she could not Have you any other name, Kaulii?" reading her trouble-ravished face. small village in the East—all her
“Out with Pettie Barleigh. Found The “sir” was a poured libation breathe when she looked at him. “Sure” said the golden image, ADJ presently he spoke. ,, work is done by mail and brings her
another devastating shop where the to his human worth—a hang-over There was a strange fluttering in- laughing with a flash of snowy _ Diane, my gray-eyed dreamer,” 5 neat profit.
en were beating gold and from her father's day, Many an her breast. | teeth. “James Wentworth Wyndham, he said softly, “life is a short thing. — « men who were gainfully
setting jade. This town ravishes hour she had | to the two t was the matter with her? after my father, though without It is here today and gone tomorrow. employed up until a few months
me.” "men talking of all the world in San Why did the quiet Hilo harbor seem benefit of clergy. You call me Kaulii, A turn of destin cau make of it) ago have opened stores and offices
The girl peeled off her sweater
and flung it, soaked, on the bed. The
act snapped something in Diane.
“Pick that up, kid,” she said
sharply. Haven't you any regard for
the rights of others?”
Babs turned open-mouthed with
astonishment. “My gosh!" she said. mom's,” the old man said, smiling, SP
“You are getting old!”
“Perhaps. Old or not, I don’t want
to sleep under wet covers.”
Her sister snatched up the offend-
ing garment. She rounded her bright
lips to say something more, then
suddenly thought better of it. “Oh,
Francisco when the Pearl Dealer
was in one of his little boats that
| plied the Seven Seas. At these times
| Ber mother had been pointedly ab-
husband's old friend.
| “I have been among the Solo-
“close to the ancient
|
|
roved her | city-baund eyes.
gent She ud mot ovr . "| thought suddenly of her mother, of to the Pearl Dealer's car beside the
|
transfigured with unnatural beauty? |
She remembered her father in that |
moment, and the look of far coun-'
tries she had sometimes seen in his
And then she
Babs—and Romane Sebastien. She
up. |
i
ary I" she said in confu-
| “I believe you,” said , quick- | sion, ~¥ promised to be home early, |
ly, la a little.
| Always the quaint speech of the
Pearl Dealer with
| ings delighted her. She felt now as
| ita sweet windthad Blown: trough
look at me! But you and your
sir, see how you have betray- |
pearls,
ed me!”
The Pear! Dealer shook his head. ping
“On the contrary,” he said gently,
“we have—shall we say ?-—a |
Diane. That's who I am at heart.”
Diane's mother turned without a
word and left them, and Diane aer-
self flew for a wrap, a hat—any hat
—and flew back on winged feet in-
young A y
and she not know that Rahs
watched She
was conscious of the cool winds
on her face, of Kaulii’'s starched
white sleeve
in-
tended, and
smile that was like
slip- |
| he ekolu ula o la, the
. Brightness of the Sun, or ilalo loa i
‘ka po, Deep Down into Darkness.
| Sometimes we can guide that turn
of destiny ourselves, provided we
have courage and know our hearts.”
. He ceased and Diane looked at
| him wonderingly. Kaulii's hand with
| the gold bracelet slipped over hers.
| Sebastien, now,” said the
| Pearl Dealer abruptly—*“do you love
him ?"
| “No! Oh, no!” said Diane, “Why
sir?”
| do you ask,
ak if you do not love him
| of their own financed largely on
| loans; and are a t,
| “These are typical examples of
what Youth is doing at the present
| day. Young men and women who
| gave hopeless sighs for blasted illu-
own. Many, of course,
| looking for that opportunity,
t what A to be
of Ww ey
next five or six years.
in the
well,” she said, “forget it, sis.” At suddenly.
the door she turned. “Bank-of-Amer-| “Clean souls and simplicity have
ica coming over tonight?” she want- their home in the Solomons,” said
ed to know. ' the Pearl Dealer, “along with beau-
Diane looked at her with narrow- ty. Some of the latter I brought
ed eyes, “You would ask that,” she back on the Pa. Would you like to
said. “You're disgustingly obvious.” come on board a little while? She
t things in the earth; against
all Jumince and love itself—to mar- | IMPORTED CATE
“the blood pons into Diane's | took le beg og
began mble. | program of rotecting her healthy
herds and flocks of livestock: from the
| it is a sin against nature—against TIGHTENS BAN ON
You, Have you not been. Happy, my universe concentrated to one single |
| ray.
Diane could not keep back the They rode in silence away trom |
eyes. Hilo, along the precipice where the
y daily waters ran in cascades /
gage and dropped two hundred feet |
into the sea.
tened gently.
'She turned and looked at Kaul. |
“It's an obvious world,” said Babs
airily. ‘“Toodle-00.”
She was gone. Outside, the green
gloom was lightening; in a minute
the wash of the hard rain was al-
most over. It was that way here in
this enchanted island. Hawaii itself,
the vast rounded shoulder of Mauna
Loa, breathing with her secret fire,
thrust up through the sea.
A thrill went through Diane. She'd
go out for a walk in the wet town,
She belonged to it as truly as
though she had been born on the
green-cane slopes, instead of having
come here from San Francisco less
than three months ago.
A little later, clad sensibly ip
rts clothes, she passed througa
e lobby of the quaint ttle hotel
Her mother, a handsome woman
with the shrewd eyes of a business
man, looked up from her game of
solitaire.
’ out, dear?”
“Just for a little,” said Diane.
“I'll be back early.”
“Do. You know why.” A smile
accompanied the words.
Yes, she did know way and her
heart took one of those queer, sink-
ing flutters it had developed of late,
| is sweet-smelling, the boat, and rich
| with pearls. Her name means ‘pear]
| shell,’ you know.”
i x ," sald Diane. “Yes, 1
| know it.” It seemed to her that an
hour on the white decks of the little
ship would rest her soul, weary with
| its ugly shadows.
| She walked beside the immaculate | ing.
| old man down to the wharves in the
| still waters of the harbor, and there
among boats from every port of
earth, it seemed, they went aboard
the Pa. She was a trim creature of
the brine and sun, taut and stanch,
There was a striped awning in the
lee of the deck house, and chairs be-
side a little table.
And halfway down the deck to-
ward this brilliant small haven they
met Kaulli.
Kaulii was six feet tall and the
color of pale gold, and his body was
the most perfect old Dame
Nature knew how to make. His hair
was black and sleek, and his mouth
was as red as the hibiscus bloom
that hung behind his left ear. His
eyes were black, too, and so were
the lashes that fringed them like a
forest, and the teeth that showed in
his quick smile were too white to
ay are a woman,” the other!
swiftly, “clinging on some des-
erate 1 A I know nothing,
e. Can you not tell me, your
father’s aikane?”
“You, sir, if any,” she replied, “for
you were his friend. But it is noth-
She held out her hand to him
impulsively and all three walked
down the deck. At the worn gang-
plank Kaulii laid his fingers on her
arm
“Aloha, Ka Punahou,” he said
softly.
She raised her eyes to his and
something thrilling passed between
them. “Aloha,” she said.
The Pearl Dealer walked with her
to the place of their meeting. There
he took leave of her with a beauti-
ful grace.
“When the waters get too deep
for you, my daughter,” he said,
“come tc the Pa. She lies here
another week.”
“Thank you, sir, I will. Wait a
moment, What did Kaulii mean
when he told me good-by—after
Aloha?”
“He called you the New Spring. |
Kaulii told her much of the lore
of the island, and Diane saw him a |
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, laughing, race. |
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beauty in his face. She saw in him |
the culmination of all the dreams |
of far worlds she had ever had, the
tion of all romance. She
t of her father once again,
and of the look of dreams his eyes |
had worn at times. i
Far up the eastern shore they |
stopped at noon and ate the food
Kaulii had brought—fish cooked in|
kalo leaves, a little pot of poi and
ripe ost instantly
the rains fell, pouring torrents that
shut them in the first two in
Paradise.
“Kaulii,” said Diane wonderingly,
“I have never known such romance!"
“It lives here on Hawaii,’ ‘said
the man simply. “This is ils home.”
“I believe you. Do you ever want
to go back tc America? The States,
! 1 t to t
“Sure. expec go next year”
Diane fell silent, watching the blur
of rain on the car windows. Kaulii
watched her and his eyes were deep |
danger of infection from outside
sources.
Regulations enforced which are
designed to keep out of the Com-
monwealth cattle infected with Bang
| disease in other states, according to
| an announcement from Dr. T. 2.
| Munce, director, bureau of animal
There was in his eyes no shock, no |
coldness. Only that concentrated
light that had been there when she
had settled against him in the car. |
“Do you want to marry this gross |
man, my child?”
Diane swallowed, held up her head.
“No sir,” she answered. “But does j;q.stry Pennsylvania Department
that matter?” | of Agriculture. Twenty-six States
“It is all that matters. Why do pn, have similar regulations.
you do it?” | “The work of preventing and c'n-
“Must I answer that, my friend?" | ty,))ing Bang disease in our native
“You need not. The old have sec- Perle ne the Pennsylvania plan
ond-sight. I can answer that myself, | adopted in 1921, is progressing rap-
knowing your—family, Then whom iqiy» pr, Munce explained, “Blood
testing is being ed out in 5515
would you wid AR you could] 518
choose, this moment?” rds and Bang disease-free certif-
To save her life Diane could not | Neda have ug issued for 693
help the turning of her head, the ,. ic che interest in the control of
strained look she fixed on the hand-| yi." 3iceage is reported as on the
some face beside her,
“That is not a fair guieation. increase.
aikane,” he said. “Let me answer in S——
her place. This woman is my WO. | FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS
man, sent to me by the ancient gods. "
We knew each other at first sight, | “Hey, there,” a traffic cop yelled
here by the table. My heart shouted at a truck driver. “Didn't you read
and my soul bowed down in at that sig? street is for ome
my woman an wa, ;
pry ne i and forever. | well, aint I traveling one way?”
I have answered, Have I not Diane?” | the truck driver shouted back.