“Dangers threaten!” came like an echo from within.
“How may they be averted?” inquired the king.
For a time there was no answer. Finally a voice from the anu replied:
“Do homage to Kane; make glad the war-god of Liloa!”
“So do I promise,” answered the king; “but will that give me victory?”
“Victory!” was repeated from the anu.
Elated at what he had heard, Hakau continued:
“Now tell me, mighty spirit, whether Umi—”
“Nothing more!” interrupted the voice from within, as the kapa suddenly dropped before the entrance.
“Well, thanks for so much,” said Hakau, turning and joining the priest at the altar, and repeating to him, with some favorable additions, the words that he had heard. Darkness hid the smile upon the lips of Laeanui.