After breakfast he followed Kealoha into the yard, and watched her make a lei.

They were silent for a while when Kealoha asked, “You’ll help my father land his opium?”

“Yes,” he replied.

“How much money will you get for the job?”

“No money at all; my dear, I get you.”

“You get me?”

“Yes, your father has promised to let me marry you if I succeed in landing the opium so that the customs men won’t know.”

“Can you do it?”

“Dead easy.”

“But if I don’t want to marry you?”