“'Thou art as a son to me. Lauati shall keep the gun, and thou shalt keep thy house and lands. I will take nothing from thee. Let us be for ever friends.'
“Then the white said to the chief, 'O chief, gladly will I give thee all I have, but this man, Lauati, is as my brother, and I promised———'
“But Tuialo put his hand on the white man's mouth, and said, 'Say no more, my son; I was but angered.'
“Yet see now his wickedness. For that night, when my father and Uluvao, my mother, were sitting with the white man and his wife, and drinking kava, there suddenly sprang in upon them ten men, who stood over them with clubs poised. They were the body-men of Tuialo.
“'Drink thy kava,' said one to the white man, 'and then come out to die.'
“Ah, he was a man! He took the cup of kava from the hands of his wife's sister, and said—
“'It is well. All men must die. But yet would I see Tuialo before the club fells.'
“The chief but waited outside, and he came.