This proposal of her husband's did not please the wife, and she proposed their going up together, but the slippery fellow used all his cunning, and she was deceived.
Halaaniani left her. Laieikawai went on to Keaau, and at a place not close to Kekalukaluokewa, there she remained; and night fell, and the husband did not return; day came, and he did not return. She waited that day until night; it was no better; then she thought her husband was dead, and she began to pour out her grief.
CHAPTER XXIII
Very heavy hearted was Laieikawai at her husband's death, so she mourned ten days and two (twelve days) for love of him.
While Laieikawai mourned, her counsellors wondered, for Laieikawai had given them her charge before going to Keaau.
"Wait for me ten days, and should I not return," she had bidden them as told in Chapter XXII; so clearly she was in trouble.
And the time having passed which Laieikawai charged her companions to wait, Aiwohikupua's sisters awoke early in the morning of the twelfth day and went to look after their comrade.
They went to Keaau, and as they approached and Laieikawai spied her counsellors she poured out her grief with wailing.
Now her counsellors marveled at her wailing and remembered her saying "some evil has befallen"; at her wailing and at her gestures of distress, for Laieikawai was kneeling on the ground with one hand clapped across her back and the other at her forehead, and she wailed aloud as follows:
O you who come to me—alas!
Here I am,
My heart is trembling,
There is a rushing at my heart for love.
Because the man is gone—my close companion!
He has departed.