THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
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 There was a man of the Island of Hawaii 
 whom I shall call Keawe; for the truth is, he still 
 lives and his name must be kept secret; but the 
 place of his birth was not far from Honaunau, 
 where the bones of Keawe the Great lie hidden in 
 a cave. This man was poor, brave, and active; 
 he could read and write like a school-master; he 
 was a first-rate mariner besides, sailed for some 
 time in the island steamers, and steered a whale¬ 
 boat on the Hamakua coast. At length it came 
 in Keawe’s mind to have a sight of the great 
 world and foreign cities, and he shipped on a 
 vessel bound to San Francisco. 
 
 This is a fine town, with a fine harbor, and a 
 rich people uncountable, and in particular, there 
 is one hill which is covered with palaces. Upon 
 
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 this hill Keawe was one day taking a walk, with 
 his pocket full of money, viewing the great 
 houses upon either hand with pleasure. 
 
 “ What fine houses these are!” he was think¬ 
 ing, “ and how happy must these people be who 
 dwell in them and take no care for the morrow.” 
 
 The thought was in his mind when he came 
 abreast of a house that was smaller than some 
 others, but all finished and beautified like a toy; 
 the steps of that house shone like silver, and the 
 borders of the garden bloomed like garlands; and 
 the windows were bright like diamonds; and 
 Keawe stopped and wondered at the excellence of 
 all he saw. So, stopping, he was aware of a man 
 that looked forth upon him through a window so 
 clear that Keawe could see him as you see a fish 
 in a pool upon the reef. The man was elderly, 
 with a bald head and a black beard; and his face 
 was heavy with sorrow, and he bitterly sighed. 
 And the truth of it is that as Keawe looked in 
 upon the man, and the man looked out upon 
 Keawe, each envied the other. 
 
 All of a sudden the man smiled and nodded. 
 
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 and beckoned Keawe to enter, and met him in 
 the door of the house. 
 
 “ This is a fine house of mine,” said the man, 
 and bitterly sighed. “ Would you not care to 
 view the chambers ?” 
 
 So he led Keawe all over it from the cellar to 
 the roof, and there was nothing there that was 
 not perfect of its kind, and Keawe was aston¬ 
 ished. 
 
 “ Truly,” said Keawe, “ this is a beautiful 
 house. If I lived in the like of it, I should be 
 laughing all day long; how comes it, then, that 
 i,ou should be sighing?” 
 
 “ There is no reason,” said the man, “ why 
 you should not have a house similar to this, and 
 finer, if you wish. You have some money, I 
 suppose?” 
 
 “ I have fifty dollars,” said Keawe; “bat a 
 house like this will cost more than fifty dollars.” 
 
 The man made a computation. 
 
 “I am sorry you have no more,” said he, 
 “ for it may raise you trouble in the future; but 
 it shall be yours at fifty di ' 
 
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 “ The house?” asked Keawe. 
 
 “ No, not the house,” replied the man, “but 
 the bottle. For I must tell you, although I ap¬ 
 pear to you so rich and fortunate, all my fortune, 
 and this house itself and its garden, came out of 
 a bottle not much bigger than a pint. This is it.” 
 
 And he opened a lock-fast place and he took 
 out a round-bellied bottle with a long neck. The 
 glass of it was white, like milk, with changing 
 rainbow colors in the grain; while inside some¬ 
 thing obscurely moved, like a shadow and a fire. 
 
 “ This is the bottle,” said the man; and when 
 Keawe laughed, “ You do not believe me?” he 
 added. “Try, then, for yourself. See if you 
 can break it.” 
 
 So Keawe took the bottle up and dashed it on 
 the floor till he was weary, but it jumped on the 
 floor, like a child’s ball, and was not injured. 
 
 “This is a strange thing,” said Keawe; “for 
 by the touch of it, as well as by the look, the 
 bottle should be of glass.” 
 
 “ Of glass it is,” replied the man, sighing 
 more heavily than ever; “ but the glass of it was 
 
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 THE BOTTLE IMP. 6 
 
 tempered in the flames of hell. An imp lives in 
 it, and that is the shadow we behold there mov¬ 
 ing; or so I suppose. If any man buys this 
 bottle, the imp is at his command; all that he 
 desires: love, fame, money, houses like this 
 house—ay, or a city like this city—all are his at 
 the word uttered. Napoleon had this bottle, and 
 by it he grew to be the king of the world; but he 
 sold it at the last and fell. Captain Cook had 
 this bottle, and by it he found his way to so 
 many islands; but he, too, sold it, and was slain 
 upon Hawaii. For once it is sold, the power 
 goes, and the protection; and unless a man re¬ 
 main content with what he has, ill will befall 
 him.” 
 
 “ And yet you talk of selling it yourself?” 
 Keawe said. 
 
 “ I have all I wish, and I am growing 
 elderly,” replied the man. “ There is one tiling 
 the imp can not do; he can not prolong life; and 
 it would not be fair to conceal from you there is 
 a drawback to the bottle, for if a man dies before 
 he sells it, he must burn in hell forever.” 
 
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 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 V 
 
 “ To be sure, that is a drawback, and no mis¬ 
 take,” cried Keawe. “ I would not meddle with 
 the thing. I can do without a house, thank God! 
 but there is one thing I could not be doing with 
 one particle, and that is to be damned.” 
 
 “Dear me! you must not run away with 
 things,” returned the man. “All you have to 
 do is to use the power of the imp in moderation, 
 and then sell it to some one else, as I do to you, 
 and finish your life in comfort.” 
 
 “ Well, I observe two things,” said Keawe. 
 “ All the time you keep sighing like a maid in 
 love; that is one. And for the other, you sell 
 this bottle very cheap.” 
 
 '* “ I have told you already why I sigh,” said the 
 
 man. “ It is because I fear my health is break¬ 
 ing up; and, as you said yourself, to die and go 
 to the devil is a pity for any one. As for why I 
 sell so cheap, I must explain to you there is a 
 peculiarity about the bottle. Long ago, when 
 
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 the devil brought it first upon the earth, it was 
 extremely expensive, and was sold first of all to 
 
 Preeter John for many million? o J dollars; but it 
 
 
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 oan not be sold at all, unless sold at a loss. If 
 you sell it for as much as you paid for it, back it 
 comes to you again, like a homing pigeon. It 
 follows that the price has kept falling in these 
 centuries, and the bottle is now remarkably 
 cheap. I bought it myself from one of my great 
 neighbors on this hill, and the price I paid was 
 only ninety dollars. I could sell it for as high as 
 eighty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents, but not 
 a penny dearer, or back the thing must come to 
 me. Now, about this there are two bothers. 
 First, when you offer a bottle so singular for 
 eighty odd dollars, people suppose you to be jest¬ 
 ing. And second—but there is no hurry about 
 that, and I need not go into it. Only remem¬ 
 ber, it must be ccined money that you sell it 
 for.” 
 
 “ How am I to know that this is all true?” 
 asked Keawe. 
 
 “ Some of it you can try at once,” replied the 
 man. “ Give me your fifty dollars, take the 
 bottle, and wish your fifty dollars back into your 
 pocket. If that does not happen, I pledge you 
 
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 my honor I will cry off the bargain and restore 
 your money.’’ 
 
 “ You are not deceiving me?” said Keawe. 
 
 The man bound himself with a great oath. 
 
 “ Well, I will risk that much,” said Keawe, 
 ts for that can do no harm.” 
 
 And he paid over his money to the man, and 
 the man handed him the bottle. 
 
 “ Imp of the bottle,” said Keawe, “ I want 
 my fifty dollars back.” 
 
 And, sure enough, he had scarce said the words 
 before his pocket was as heavy as ever. 
 
 “ To be sure, this is a wonderful bottle!” said 
 Keawe. 
 
 €t And now, good-morning to you, my fine fel¬ 
 low, and the devil go with you for me!” said the 
 man. 
 
 “ Hold on!” said Keawe; “ I don’t want any 
 more of this fun. Here, take your bottle back.” 
 
 “ You have bought it for less than I paid for 
 it,” replied the man, rubbing his hands. “ It is 
 yours now, and for my part, I am only concerned 
 to see the back of you.” 
 
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 18 
 
 And with that he rang for his Chinese servant 
 and had Keawe shown out of the house. 
 
 Now, when Keawe was in the street, with the 
 bottle under his arm, he began to think. 
 
 “ If all is true about this bottle, I may have 
 made a losing bargain,” thinks he. “ But, per¬ 
 haps, the man was only fooling me.” 
 
 \ The first thing he did was to count his money; 
 the sum was exact, forty-nine American dollars 
 and one Chili piece. 
 
 “That looks like the truth,” said Keawe. 
 “ Now I will try another part.” 
 
 The streets in that part of the city were as 
 clean as a ship’s decks, and though it was noon, 
 there were no passengers. Keawe set the bottle 
 in the gutter and walked away. Twice he looked 
 back, and there was the milky, round-bellied 
 bottle where he left it. A third time he looked 
 back and turned a corner; but he had scarce done 
 so when something knocked upon his elbow, and 
 behold! it was the long neck sticking up, and as 
 for the round belly, it was jammed into the 
 pocket of his pilot-coat. 
 
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 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 “And that looks like the truth, too,” said 
 Keawe. 
 
 The next thing he did was to buy a corkscrew 
 in a shop, and go apart into a secret place in the 
 fields. And there he tried to draw the cork; but 
 as often as he put the screw in, out it came 
 again, and the cork as whole as ever. 
 
 “ This is some new sort of cork,” said Keawe; 
 and all at once he began to shake and sweat, for 
 he was afraid of that bottle. 
 
 On his way back to the port side, he saw a 
 shop where a man sold shells and clubs from the 
 wild islands, old heathen deities, old coined 
 money, pictures from China and Japan, and all 
 manner of things that sailors bring in their sea- 
 chests. And here he had an idea. So he went 
 in and offered the bottle for one hundred dollars. 
 The man of the shop laughed at him at the first, 
 and offered him five dollars, as indeed it was a 
 curious bottle; such glass was never blown in any 
 human glass-work, so prettily the colors shone 
 under the milky-white, and so strangely the 
 shadow hovered in the midst; so, after he had 
 
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 disputed awhile, after the manner of his kind, the 
 shopman gave Keawe sixty silver dollars for the 
 thing, and set it on a shelf in the midst of his 
 window. 
 
 (i Now,” said Keawe, “ I have sold that for 
 sixty which I bought for fifty, or, to say the 
 truth, a little less, because one of my dollars was 
 from Chili. Now I shall know the truth upon 
 another point.” 
 
 So he went back on board his ship, and when 
 he opened his chest there was the bottle, and it had 
 come more quickly than himself. Now, Keawe 
 had a mate on board, whose name was Lopaka. 
 
 “ What ails you,” said Lopaka, “ that you 
 stare in your chest?” 
 
 They were alone in the ship's forecastle, and 
 Keawe bound him to secrecy and told all. 
 
 “ This is a very strange affair,” said Lopaka, 
 “ and I fear you will be in trouble about this 
 bottle. But there is one point very clear—that 
 you are sure of the trouble, and you had better 
 have the profit in the bargain. Make up your 
 mind what you want with it, give the order, and 
 
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 if it is done as you desire, I will buy the bottle 
 myself, for I have an idea of my own to get a 
 schooner and go trading through the islands.” 
 
 “ That is not my idea,” said Keawe; “ but to 
 have a beautiful house and garden on the Kona 
 coast, where I was born, the sun shining in at the 
 door, flowers in the garden, glass in the windows, 
 pictures on the walls, and toys and fine carpets 
 on the tables, for all the world like the house I 
 was in this day, only a story higher, and with 
 balconies all about, like the king’s palace; and to 
 live there without care, and make merry with my 
 friends and relatives.” 
 
 C( Well,” said Lopaka, “ let us carry it back 
 with us to Hawaii, and if all comes true, as you 
 suppose, I will buy the bottle, as I said, and ask 
 a schooner.” 
 
 Upon that they were agreed, and it was not 
 long before the ship returned to Honolulu, carry¬ 
 ing Keawe, and Lopaka, and the bottle. They 
 were scarce come ashore, when they met a friend 
 upon the beach, who began at once to condole 
 with Keawe. 
 
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 “ I do not know what I am to be condoled 
 about/’ said Keawe. 
 
 “ Is it possible you have not heard?” said the 
 friend. “Your uncle, that good old man, is 
 dead, and your cousin, that beautiful boy, was 
 drowned at sea.” 
 
 Keawe was filled with sorrow, and beginning 
 to weep and to lament, he forgot about the 
 bottle. But Lopaka was thinking to himself, 
 and presently, when Keawe’s grief was a little 
 abated, “ I have been thinking,” said Lopaka, 
 “ had not .your uncle lands in Hawaii, in the dis¬ 
 trict of Kau?” 
 
 “ No,” said Keawe, “ not in Kau; they are on 
 the mountain-side, a little besouth Hookena.” 
 
 “These lands will now be yours?” asked 
 Lopaka. 
 
 “ And so they will,” said Keawe, and began 
 again to lament for his relatives. 
 
 “No,” said Lopaka, “do not lament at pres¬ 
 ent. I have a thought in my mind. How if this 
 should be the doing of the bottle? For here is 
 the place ready for your house.” 
 
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 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 “ If this be so,” cried Keawe, “ it is a very ill 
 way to serve me by killing my relatives. But it 
 may be, indeed; for it was in just such a station 
 that I saw the house with my mind’s eye.” 
 
 “ The. house, however, is not yet built,” said 
 Lopaka. 
 
 “ No; nor like to be,” says Keawe, “for 
 though my uncle has some coffee, and ava, and 
 bananas, it will not be more than will keep me in 
 comfort; and the rest of that land is the black 
 lava.” 
 
 “ Let us go to the lawyer,” said Lopaka. “ I 
 have still this idea in my mind. ’ ’ 
 
 Now, when they came to the lawyer’s it, ap¬ 
 peared Keawe’s uncle had grown monstrous 
 rich in the last days, and there was a fund of 
 money. 
 
 “ And here is the money for the house,” cried 
 Lopaka. 
 
 “ If you are thinking of a new house,” said 
 the lawyer, “ here is the card of a new architect, 
 of whom they tell me great things.” 
 
 “ Better and better!” cried Lopaka. “ Her© 
 
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 is all made plain for us. Let us continue to obey 
 orders.” 
 
 So they went to the architect, and he had draw¬ 
 ings of houses on his table. 
 
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 “ You want something out of the way,” said 
 the architect. “ How do you like this?” and he 
 handed a drawing to Keawe. 
 
 How, when Keawe set eyes on the drawing he 
 cried out aloud, for it was the picture of his 
 thought exactly drawn. 
 
 “ I am in for this house,” thought he. “ Lit¬ 
 tle as I like the way it comes to me, I am in for 
 it now, and I may as well take the good along 
 with the evil.” 
 
 So he told the architect all that he wished, and 
 how he would have that house furnished, and 
 about the pictures on the walls and the knick- 
 knacks on the tables; and then he asked the man 
 plainly for how much he would undertake the 
 whole affair. 
 
 The architect put many questions, and took his 
 pen and made a computation; and when he had done 
 he named the very sum that Keawe had inherited. 
 
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 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 Lopaka and Keawe looked at each other and 
 nodded. 
 
 “It is quite clear,” thought Keawe, “ that I 
 am to have this house, whether or not. It comes 
 from the devil, and I fear I will get little good by 
 that. And of one thing I am sure, I will make 
 no more wishes as long as I have this bottle. 
 But with the house I am saddled, and I may as 
 well take the good along with'the evil.” 
 
 So he made his terms with the architect, and 
 they signed a paper; and Keawe and Lopaka 
 took ship again and sailed to Australia; for it was 
 concluded between them they should not inter¬ 
 fere at all, but leave the architect and the bottle 
 imp to build and to adorn that house at their own 
 pleasure. 
 
 The voyage was a good voyage, only all the 
 time Keawe was holding in his breath, for he had 
 sworn he would utter no more wishes and take no 
 more favors from the devil. The time was up 
 when they got back; the architect told them that 
 the house was ready, and Keawe and Lopaka 
 took a passage ia the “Hall,” and went down 
 
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 St 
 
 Kona ways to view the house and see if all had 
 been done fitly, according to the thought that 
 was in Keawe’s mind. 
 
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 II. 
 
 Now, the house stood on the mountain-side, 
 visible to ships. Above, the forest ran up into 
 the clouds of rain; below, the black lava fell in 
 cliffs, where the kings of old lay buried. A gar¬ 
 den bloomed about that house with every hue of 
 flowers; and there was an orchard of Papaia on 
 the one hand, and an orchard of fruit-bread on 
 the other; and right in front, toward the sea, a 
 ship’s mast had been rigged up, and bore a flag. 
 As for the house, it was three stories high, with 
 great chambers and broad balconies on each; the 
 windows were of glass so excellent that it was as 
 clear as water and as bright as day; all manner 
 of furniture adorned the chambers; pictures hung 
 upon the walls in golden frames—pictures of 
 ships, and men fighting, and of the most beauti¬ 
 ful women, and of singular places. Nowhere in 
 the world are there pictures of so bright a color 
 
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 as those Keawe found hanging in his house. As 
 for the knickknacks, they were extraordinary 
 fine; chiming clocks and musical-boxes, little men 
 with nodding heads, books filled with pictures, 
 weapons from all quarters of the world, and the 
 most elegant puzzles ’to entertain the leisure of a 
 solitary man. And as no one would care to live 
 in such chambers, only to walk through and view 
 them, the balconies were made so broad that a 
 whole town might have lived upon them in de¬ 
 light; and Keawe knew not which to prefer, 
 whether the back porch, where you got the land 
 breeze, and looked upon the orchards and the 
 flowers, or the front balcony, where you could 
 drink the wind of the sea, and look down the 
 steep wall of the mountain, and see the “ Hall” 
 going by once a week or so, between Hookena 
 and the Hills of Pele, or the schooners plying'up 
 the coast for wood, and ava, and bananas. 
 
 When they had viewed all, Keawe and Lopaka 
 sat on the porch. 
 
 “ Well,” asked Lopaka, “is it all as you de¬ 
 signed?” 
 
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 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 “ Words can not utter it,” said Keawe. “ It 
 is better than I dreamed, and I am sick with sat¬ 
 isfaction/’ 
 
 “ There is but one thing to consider,” said 
 Lopaka. “ All this may be quite natural, and 
 the bottle imp have nothing whatever to say to 
 it. If I were to buy the bottle and get no 
 schooner after all, I should have put my hand in 
 the fire for nothing. I gave you my word, I know, 
 but yet I think you would not grudge me one 
 more proof.” 
 
 “ I have sworn I would take no more favors,” 
 said Keawe. “ I have gone already deep 
 
 “ This is no favor I am thinking of,” replied 
 Lopaka. “ It is only to see the imp himself. 
 There is nothing to be gained by that, and so noth¬ 
 ing to be ashamed of, and yet if I once saw him 
 I should be ashamed of the whole matter. So in¬ 
 dulge me so far, and let me see the imp, and 
 after that there is the money in my hand, and I 
 will buy it.” 
 
 “ There is only one thing that I am afraid of,” 
 
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 X 
 
 said Keawe. 44 The imp may be very ugly to 
 
 view, and if you once set eyes on him you might 
 
 be very undesirous of the bottle.” 
 
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 “ I am a man of my word,” said Lopaka. 
 “ And here is the money betwixt us,” 
 
 “Very well,” replied Keawe; “ I have a 
 curiosity myself. So come, let us have one look 
 at you, Mr. Imp.” 
 
 Now, as soon as that was said, the imp looked 
 out of the bottle and in again, swift as a lizard; 
 and there sat Keawe and Lopaka, turned to 
 stone. The night had quite come before either 
 found a thought to say or voice to say it with, 
 and then Lopaka pushed the money over and 
 took the bottle. 
 
 “ I am a man of my word,” said he, “ and had 
 need to be so, or I would not touch this bottle 
 with my foot. Well, I shall get my schooner 
 and a dollar or two for my pocket; and then I 
 will be rid of this devil as fast as I can. For, to 
 tell the plain truth, the look of him has cast me 
 down.” 
 
 “ Lopaka,” said Keawe, “do not think any 
 
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 THE BOTTLE lMf>. 
 
 worse of me than you can help. I know it is 
 night, and the roads bad, and the pass by the 
 tombs an ill place to go by so late; but I declare, 
 since I have seen that little face I can not eat, or 
 sleep, or pray till it is gone from me. I will give 
 you a lantern, and a basket to put the bottle in, 
 and any picture or fine thing in my house that 
 takes your fancy, and be gone at once, and go 
 sleep at Hookena with Nahinu." 
 
 “ Keawe," said Lopaka, “ many a man would 
 take this ill; above all, when I am doing you a 
 turn so friendly as to keep my word and to buy 
 the bottle, and, for that matter, the night, and 
 the dark, and the way by the tombs must be all 
 tenfold more dangerous to a man with such a sin 
 upon his conscience and such a bottle under his 
 arm. But for my part, I am so extremely terri¬ 
 fied myself, I have not the heart to blame you. 
 Here I go, then, and I pray God you may be 
 happy in your house, and I fortunate with my 
 schooner, and both get to heaven in the end, in 
 spite of the devil and his bottle." 
 
 So Lopaka went down the mountain, and 
 
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 Keawe stood in his front balcony and listened to 
 the clink of the horse's shoes, and watched the 
 lantern go shining down the path and along the 
 cliff of caves, where the old dead are buried; and 
 all the time he trembled and clasped his hands 
 and prayed for his friend, and gave glory to 
 God that he himself was escaped out of that 
 trouble. 
 
 But the next day came very brightly, and that 
 new house of his was so delightful to behold that 
 he forgot his terrors. One day followed another, 
 and Keawe dwelt there in perpetual joy. He 
 had his place on the back porch; it was there he 
 eat, and lived, and read the stories in the Hono¬ 
 lulu newspapers; but when any one came by they 
 would go in and view the chambers and the pict¬ 
 ures. And the fame of the house went far and 
 wide. It was called Ka-Hale Nui—the Great 
 
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 House—in all Kona; and sometimes the Bright 
 House, for Keawe kept a Chinaman, who was all 
 day dusting and furbishing, and the glass, and 
 the gilt, and the fine stuffs, and the pictures 
 shone as bright as the morning. As for Keawe 
 
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 himself, he could not walk in the chambers with¬ 
 out singing, his heart was so enlarged; and when 
 ships sailed by upon the sea he would fly his 
 colors on the mast. 
 
 Some time went by until one day Keawe went 
 upon a visit as far as Kailua, to certain of his 
 friends. There he was well feasted, and left as 
 soon as he could the next morning, and rode 
 hard, for he was impatient to behold his beauti¬ 
 ful house, and besides, the night then coming on 
 was the night in which the dead of old days go 
 abroad in the sides of Kona; and having already 
 meddled with the devil, he was the more chary 
 of meeting with the dead. A little beyond Ho- 
 naunau, looking far ahead, he was aware of a 
 woman bathing in the edge of the sea; and she 
 seemed a well-grown girl; but he thought no 
 more of it. Then he saw her white shift flutter 
 as she put it on, and then her red holoku, and 
 by the time he came abreast of her she was done 
 with her toilet and had come up from the sea and 
 stood by the track-side in her red holoku, and she 
 was all fresh with the bath, and her eyes shone 
 
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 and were kind. Now Keawe no sooner beheld 
 her than he drew rein. 
 
 “ I thought I knew every one in this coun¬ 
 try,” he said. “ How comes it that I do not 
 know you?” 
 
 “I am Kokua, daughter of Kiano,” said the 
 girl, “ and I have just returned from Oahu. 
 Who are you?” 
 
 “ I will tell you who I am in a little,” said 
 Keawe, dismounting from his horse, “ but not 
 now, for I have a thought in my mind, and if 
 you knew who I was, you might have heard of 
 me, and you would not give me a true answer. 
 But tell me, first of all, one thing. Are you 
 married?” 
 
 At this Kokua laughed out loud. 
 
 “ It is you who ask questions,” she said. “ Are 
 you married yourself?” 
 
 “ Indeed, Kokua, I am not,” replied Keawe, 
 “ and never thought to be until this hour. But 
 here is the plain truth: I have met you here at 
 the road-side and saw your eyes, which are like 
 the stars, and my heart went to you swift as a 
 
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 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 bird. And so now, if you want none of me, say 
 go, and I will go on to my own place; but if you 
 think me no worse than any other young man, 
 say so, too, and I will turn aside to your father’s 
 for the night, and to-morrow I will talk with the 
 good man.” 
 
 Kokua said never a word, but she looked at the 
 sea and laughed. 
 
 “ Kokua,” said Keawe, “ if you say nothing, 
 I will take that for the good answer; so let us be 
 stepping to your father’s door.” 
 
 She went on ahead of him, still without 
 speech; only sometimes she glanced back, and 
 glanced away again; and she kept the strings of 
 her hat in her mouth. 
 
 Now, when they had come to the door, Kiano 
 came out in his veranda, and cried out, and wel¬ 
 comed Keawe by name. At that the girl looked 
 over, for the fame of the great house had come 
 to her ears, and to be sure it was a great tempta¬ 
 tion. All that evening they were very merry 
 together; and the girl was as bold as brass under 
 the eyes of her parents, and made a mark of 
 
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 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 Keawe, for she had a quick wit. The next day 
 he had a word with Kiano, and found the girl 
 alone. 
 
 “ Kokua,” said he, “ you made a mark of me 
 all evening; and it is still time to bid me go. I 
 would not tell you who I was, because I have so 
 fine a house, and I feared you would think too 
 much of that house and too little of the man that 
 loves you. Now you know all, and if you wish 
 to have seen the last of me, say so at once.” 
 
 “ No,” said Kokua. But this time she did not 
 laugh, nor did Keawe ask for more. 
 
 This was the wooing of Keawe; things had 
 gone quickly, but so an arrow goes, and the ball 
 of a rifle swifter still, and yet both may strike the 
 target. Things had gone fast, but they had gone 
 far also, and the thought of Keawe rang in the 
 maiden’s head; she heard his voice in the breach 
 of the surf upon the lava, and for this young man 
 that she had seen but twice she would have left 
 father, and mother, and her native islands. As 
 for Keawe himself, his horse flew up the path of 
 the mountain under the cliff of tombs, and the 
 
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 sound of the hoofs, and the sound of Keawe sing* 
 mg to himself for pleasure, echoed in the caverns 
 of the dead. He came to the Bright House, and 
 still he was singing. He sat and eat in the broad 
 balcony, and the Chinaman wondered at his mas¬ 
 ter, to hear how he sung between the mouthfuls. 
 The sun went down into the sea, and the night 
 came, and Keawe walked the balconies by lamp¬ 
 light, high on the mountain, and the voice of his 
 singing startled men on ships. 
 
 “ Here am I now upon my high place,” he 
 said to himself. “ Life may be no better; this is 
 the mountain-top, and all shelves about me to¬ 
 ward the worse. For the first time I will light 
 up the chambers, and bathe in my fine bath, with 
 the hot water and the cold, and sleep above in 
 the bed of my bridal-chamber.” 
 
 So the Chinaman had word, and he must rise 
 from sleep and light the furnaces; and as he 
 walked below beside the boilers, he heard his 
 master singing and rejoicing above him in the 
 lighted chambers. "When the water began to be 
 hot, the Chinaman cried to his master, and 
 
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 THE BOTTLE IMP. 33 
 
 Keawe went into the bath-room, and the China¬ 
 man heard him sing as he filled the marble basin, 
 and heard him sing again, the singing broken, as 
 he undressed, until, of a sudden, the song ceased. 
 The Chinaman listened and listened; he called 
 up the house to Keawe, to ask him if all were 
 well, and Keawe answered him “ Yes,” and bid 
 him go to bed; but there was no more singing in 
 the Bright House, and all night long the China¬ 
 man heard his master’s feet go round and round 
 the balconies without repose. 
 
 Now the truth of it was this: As Keawe un¬ 
 dressed for his bath, he spied upon his flesh a 
 patch like a patch of lichen on a rock, and it was 
 then that he stopped singing. For he knew the 
 likeness of that patch, and he knew that he had 
 fallen in the Chinese evil. 
 
 Now, it is a sad thing for any man to fall intc 
 this sickness. And it would be a sad thing for 
 any one to leave a house so beautified and so com¬ 
 modious, and depart from all his friends to the 
 north coast of Molokai, between the mighty cliff 
 
 and .the sea-breakers. But what was that to the 
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THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 34 
 
 case of the man Keawe? He who had met his 
 love but yesterday, and won her but that morn¬ 
 ing, and now saw all his hopes break in a mo¬ 
 ment like a piece of glass. 
 
 Awhile he sat upon the edge of the bath; then 
 sprung, with a cry, and ran outside, and to and 
 fro, and to and fro along the balcony like one 
 despairing. 
 
 (( Very willingly could I leave Hawaii, the 
 home of my fathers,” Keawe was thinking. 
 “ Very lightly could I leave my house, the high- 
 placed, the many-windowed, here upon the 
 mountains. Very bravely could I go to Molokai, 
 to Kalaupapa by the cliffs, to live with the smit¬ 
 ten, and to sleep there far from my fathers. But 
 what wrong have I done, what sin lies upon my 
 soul, that I should have encountered Kokua com¬ 
 ing cool from the sea-water in the evening— 
 Kokua, the soul-insnarer, Kokua, the light of my 
 life? Her may I never wed, her may I look upon 
 no longer, her may I no more handle with my lov¬ 
 ing hand. And it is for this—it is for you, oh, 
 Kokua, that I pour my lamentations!” 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 35 
 
 Thereupon he called to mind it was the next 
 day the “ Hall ” went by on her return to Hono¬ 
 lulu. 
 
 • “ There I must go first/’ he thought, “ and 
 seek Lopaka. For the best hope that I have now 
 is to find that same bottle X was so pleased to be 
 rid of.” 
 
 Now, you are to observe what kind of a man 
 Keawe was, for he might have dwelt there in the 
 Bright House for years, and no one been the 
 wiser of his sickness; but he recked nothing of 
 that if he must lose Kokua. And again he 
 might have wed Kokua even as he was; and so 
 many would have done, because they have the 
 souls of pigs. But Keawe loved the maid man¬ 
 fully, and he would do her no hurt and bring her 
 in no danger. 
 
 A little beyond the midst of the night came in 
 his mind the recollection of that bottle. He 
 went round to the back porch and called to mem¬ 
 ory the day when the devil had looked forth, and 
 at the thought ice ran in his veins. 
 
 “ A dreadful thing is the bottle,” thought 
 
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 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 Keawe, “ and dreadful is the imp, and it is a 
 dreadful thing to risk the flames of hell. But 
 what other hope have I to cure my sickness or to 
 wed Kokua? What!” he thought, “ would I 
 beard the devil once only to get me a house, and 
 not face him again to win Kokua?” 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 8 ? 
 
 IIL 
 
 \ 
 
 Neteb a wink could he sleep, the food stuck 
 in his throat; but he sent a letter to Kiano, and 
 about the time when the steamer would be com¬ 
 ing rode down beside the cliff of the tombs. It 
 rained; his horse went heavily; he looked up at 
 the black mouths of caves, and he envied the 
 dead that slept there and were done with trouble, 
 and called to mind how he had galloped by the 
 day before, and was astonished. So he came 
 down to Hookena, and there was all the country 
 gathered for the steamer, as usual. In the shed- 
 before the store they sat, and jested, and passed 
 the news; but there was no matter of speech in 
 Keawe’s bosom, and he sat in their midst and 
 looked without on the rain falling on the houses, 
 and the surf beating among the rocks, and the 
 sighs arose in his throat. 
 
 “ KeaWe, of the Bright House, is out of 
 spirits,” said one to another. 
 
38 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 Indeed, and so he was, and little wonder. 
 
 Then the “ Hall ” came, and the whale-boat 
 carried him on board. The after-part of the 
 ship was full of Haoles—whites—who had been to 
 visit the volcano, as their custom is, and the 
 midst was crowded with Kanakas, and the fore¬ 
 part with wild bulls from Hilo, and horses from 
 Kau; but Keawe sat apart from all, in his sor¬ 
 row, and watched for the house of Kiano. There 
 it sat, low upon the shore, in the black rocks, 
 and shaded by the cocoa-palms, and there by the 
 door was a red holoku, no greater than a fly, and 
 going to and fro with a fly’s business. 
 
 “ Ah! queen of my heart,” he cried, “ I will 
 venture my dear soul to win you!” 
 
 Soon after darkness fell, and the cabins were 
 lighted up, and the Haoles sat and played at the 
 cards and drank whisky, as their custom is; but 
 Keawe walked the deck all night, and all the 
 next day; as they steamed under the lee of Maui 
 or of Molokai he was still pacing to and fro, like 
 a wild animal in a menagerie. 
 
 Toward evening they passed Diamond Head 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 39 
 
 and came to the pier of Honolulu. Keawe 
 stepped out among the crowd and began to ask 
 for Lopaka. It seemed he had become the owner 
 of a schooner, none better in the islands, and was 
 gone upon an adventure as far as Pola-Pola or 
 Kahiki; so there was no help to be looked for from 
 Lopaka. Keawe called to mind a friend of his, 
 a lawyer in the town (I must not tell his name), 
 and inquired of him; they said he had grown 
 suddenly rich and had a fine new house upon 
 Waikiki shore; and this put a thought in Keawe’s 
 head, and he called a hack and drove to the 
 lawyer’s house. 
 
 The house was all brand-new, and the trees in 
 the garden no greater than walking-sticks, and 
 the lawyer (when he came) had the air of a man 
 well pleased. 
 
 “ What can I do to serve you?” said the 
 lawyer. 
 
 4 4 You are a friend of Lopaka’s,” replied 
 Keawe, “ and Lopaka- purchased from, me a cer¬ 
 tain piece of goods that I thought you might 
 enable me to trace.” 
 
40 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 The lawyer’s face became very dark. 
 
 “I do not profess to misunderstand you, Mr. 
 Keawe,” said he, “ though this is an ugly busi¬ 
 ness to be stirring in. You may be sure I know 
 nothing, but yet I have a guess; and if you 
 would apply in a certain quarter, I think you 
 might have news.” 
 
 And he named the name of a man, which 
 again I had better not repeat. So it was for 
 days; and Keawe went from one to another, find¬ 
 ing everywhere new clothes and carriages, and 
 fine new houses, and men everywhere in great 
 contentment; although (to be sure) when he 
 hinted at his business, their faces would cloud 
 over. 
 
 “ No doubt I am upon the track,” thought 
 Keawe. “ These new clothes and carriages are 
 all the gifts of the little imp, and these glad 
 faces are the faces of men who have taken their 
 profit and got rid of the accursed thing in safety. 
 When I see pale cheeks and hear sighing, I shall 
 know that I am near the bottle.” 
 
 So it befell at last that he was recommended 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 41 
 
 to a Haole in Beritania Street. When he came 
 to the door, about the hour of the evening meal, 
 there were the usual marks of the new house, 
 and the young garden, and the electric light shin¬ 
 ing in the windows; but when the owner came, a 
 shock of hope and fear ran through Keawe. For 
 here was a young man, white as a corpse and 
 black about the eyes, the hair shedding from his 
 head, and such a look in his countenance as a 
 man may have when he is waiting for the gal¬ 
 lows. 
 
 “ Here it is, to be sure,” thought Keawe; and 
 so with this man he noways veiled his errand. 
 “Iam come to buy the bottle,” said he. 
 
 At the word the young Haole of Beritania 
 Street reeled against the wall. 
 
 “The bottle!” he gasped. “To buy the 
 bottle?” 
 
 Then he seemed to choke, and seizing Keawe 
 by the arm, carried him into a room and poured 
 out wine in two glasses. 
 
 “ Here is my respects,” said Keawe, who had 
 been much about with Haoles in his time. 
 
42 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 “ Yen,” he added, “ I am come to buy the 
 bottle. What is the price by now?” 
 
 At that word the young man let his glass slip 
 through his fingers, and looked upon Keawe like 
 a ghost. 
 
 “ The price?” says he. “ The price? You 
 do not know the price?” 
 
 “ It is for that I am asking you,” returned 
 Keawe. “ But why are you so much concerned? 
 Is there anything wrong about the price?” 
 
 “ It has dropped a great deal in value since 
 your time, Mr. Keawe,” said the young man, 
 stammering. 
 
 “ Well, well, I shall have the less to pay for 
 it,” says Keawe. “ How much did it cost you?” 
 
 The young man was as white as a sheet. 
 
 “ Two cents,” said he. 
 
 ‘ ‘What!” cried Keawe; 6i ‘ two cents? Why, 
 then, you can only sell it for one. And he who 
 buys it—” 
 
 The words died upon Keawe’s tongue. He 
 who bought it could never sell it again; the bottle 
 and bottle imp must abide with him until he 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 48 
 
 died, and when he died must carry him to the 
 red end of hell. 
 
 The young man of Beritania Street fell upon 
 his knees. 
 
 <e For God’s sake, buy it!” he cried. “ You 
 can have all my fortune in the bargain. I was 
 mad when I bought it at that price. I had em¬ 
 bezzled money at my store; I was lost, else I 
 must have gone to jail.” 
 
 ‘‘ Poor creature!” said Keawe. “ You would 
 risk your soul upon so desperate an adventure, 
 and to avoid the proper punishment of your own 
 disgrace; and you think I could hesitate with love 
 in front of me. Give me the bottle and the 
 change, which I make sure you have all ready. 
 Here is a five-cent piece.” 
 
 It was as Keawe supposed; the young man had 
 the change ready in a drawer; the bottle changed 
 hands, and Keawe’s fingers were no sooner, 
 clasped upon the stalk than he had breathed his 
 wish to be a clean man. And sure enough, when 
 he got home to his room and stripped himself 
 before a glass, his flesh was whole, like an in- 
 
44 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 fant's. And here was the strange thing; he had 
 no sooner seen this miracle than his mind was 
 changed within him, and he cared naught for the 
 Chinese evil, and little enough for Kokua; and 
 had but one thought, that here he was bound to 
 the bottle imp for time and for eternity, and had 
 no better hope but to be cinder forever in the 
 flames of hell. Away ahead of him he saw them 
 blaze in his mind’s eye, and his soul shrunk, and 
 darkness fell upon the light. 
 
 When Keawe came to himself a little, he was 
 aware it was the night when the band played at 
 the hotel. Thither hewent, because he feared to 
 be alone; and there, among happy faces, walked 
 to and fro, and heard the tunes go up and down, 
 and saw Berger beat the measure, and all the 
 while he heard the flames crackle, and saw the 
 red fire burning in the bottomless pit. Of a sud¬ 
 den, the band played “ Hiko-ao-ao;" that was a 
 song that he had sung with Kokua, and at the 
 strain courage returned to him. 
 
 “It is done now," he thought, “ and once 
 more let me take the good along with the evil.” 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 45 
 
 So it befell that he returned to Hawaii by the 
 first steamer, and as soon as it could be managed 
 he was wedded to Kokua, and carried her up the 
 
 r 
 
 mountain-side to the Bright House. 
 
 Now it was so with these two that when they 
 were together Keawe’s heart was stilled, but so 
 soon as he was alone he fell into a brooding hor¬ 
 ror, and heard the flames crackle, and saw the 
 red fire burn in the bottomless pit. The girl 
 indeed had come to him wholly; her heart leaped 
 in her side at sight of him, her hand clung to 
 his, and she was so fashioned from the hair upon 
 her head to the nails upon her toes that none 
 could see her without joy. She was pleasant in 
 her nature. She had the good word always. 
 Full of song she was, and went to and fro in the 
 Bright House, the brightest thing in its three 
 stories, caroling like a bird. And Keawe beheld 
 and heard her with delight, and then must shrink 
 upon one side, and weep and groan to think upon 
 the price that he had paid for her; and then he 
 must dry his eyes, and wash his face, and go and 
 sit with her on the broad balconies, joining in her 
 
46 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 songs, and (with a sick spirit) answering her 
 smiles. 
 
 There came a day when her feet began to be 
 heavy and her songs more rare; and now it was 
 not Keawe only that would weep apart, but each 
 would sunder from the other, and sit in opposite 
 balconies, with the whole width of the Bright 
 House betwixt. Keawe was so sunk in his de¬ 
 spair he scarce observed the change, and was only 
 glad he had more hours to sit alone and brood 
 upon his destiny, and was not so frequently con¬ 
 demned to pull a smiling face on a sick heart. 
 But one day, coming softly through the house, he 
 heard the sound of a child sobbing, and there was 
 Kokua rolling her face upon the balcony floor 
 and weeping like the lost. 
 
 You do well to keep in the house, Kokua,” 
 he said, ee and yet I would give the head off my 
 body that you (at least) might have been happy.” 
 
 “ Happy!” she cried. “ Keawe, when you 
 lived alone in your Bright House, you were the 
 word of the island for a happy man; laughter and 
 song were in your mouth, and your face was as 
 
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 47 
 
 bright as the sunrise. Then you wedded poor 
 Kokua, and the good God knows what is amiss in 
 her, but from that day you have not smiled. 
 Oh!” she cried, “ what ails me? I thought I 
 was pretty, and I know I loved him. What 
 ails me that I throw this cloud upon my hus¬ 
 band?” 
 
 6 ‘ Poor Kokua,” said Keawe. He sat down by 
 
 her side and sought to take her hand, but that 
 
 she plucked away. “ Poor Kokua,” he said 
 
 again. “ My poor child, my pretty! And I had 
 
 « 
 
 thought all this while to spare you! Well, you 
 shall know all. Then at least you will pity poor 
 Keawe; then you will understand how much he 
 has loved you in the past, that he dared hell for 
 your possession, and how much he loves you still 
 (the poor, condemned one), that he can yet call 
 up a smile when he beholds you.” 
 
 With that he told her all, even from the begin¬ 
 ning. 
 
 “You have done this for me?” she cried. 
 “ Ah, well, then what do I care?” and she 
 clasped and wept upon him. 
 
48 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 “Ah, child!” said Keawe, “and yet, when I 
 consider the fire of hell, I care a good deal!” 
 
 “ Never tell me,” said she, “ no man can be 
 lost because he loved Kokua, and no other fault. 
 I tell you, Keawe, I shall save you with these 
 hands, or perish in your company. What! you 
 loved me, and you gave your soul, and you think 
 I will not die to save you in return?” 
 
 “ Ah, my dear, you might die a hundred 
 times, and what difference would that make?” he 
 cried, “ except to leave me lonely till the time 
 comes for my damnation.” 
 
 “You know nothing,” said she; “ I was edu¬ 
 cated in a school in Honolulu; I am no common 
 girl, and I tell you I shall save my lover. W T hat 
 is this you say about a cent? But all the world is 
 not America. In England they have a piece 
 called a farthing, which is about half a cent. 
 Ah, sorrow!” she cried, “ that makes it scarcely 
 better, for the buyer must be lost, and we shall 
 find none so brave as my Keawe! But, then, 
 there is France; they have a small coin there 
 which they call a centime, and these go five to 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 49 
 
 the cent, or thereabout. We could not do better. 
 Come, Keawe, let us go to the French Islands; 
 let us go to Tahiti as fast as ships can bear us. 
 There we have four centimes, three centimes, two 
 centimes, one centime; four possible sales to 
 come and go on, and two of us to push the bar¬ 
 gain. Come, my Keawe, kiss me, and banish 
 care. Kokua will defend you. ” 
 
 “ Gift of God,” he cried, “ I can not think 
 that God will punish me for desiring aught so 
 good I Be it as you will, then; take me where 
 you please; I put my life and my salvation in 
 your hands.” 
 
 Early the next day, Kokua was about her 
 preparations. ‘She took Keawe's chest, that he 
 went with sailoring, and first she put the bottle 
 in the corner, and then packed it with the richest 
 of their clothes and the bravest of the knick- 
 knacks in the house. 
 
 “ For,” said she, “ we must seem to be sick 
 folk, or who will believe in the bottle?” 
 
 All the time of her preparation she was as gay 
 as a bird; only when she looked upon Keawe, the 
 
50 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 tears would spring in her eyes, and she must run 
 and kiss him. As for Keawe, a weight was off 
 his soul; now that he had his secret shared, and 
 some hope in front of him, he seemed like a new 
 man, his feet went lightly on the earth, and his 
 breath was good to him again. Yet was terror 
 still at his elbow; and ever and again, as the wind 
 blows out a taper, hope died in him, and he saw 
 the flames toss and the red fire burn in hell. 
 
 It was given out in the country they were gone 
 pleasuring to the States, which was thought a 
 strange thing, and yet not so strange as the 
 truth, if any could have guessed it. So they 
 went to Honolulu in the 44 Hall,” and thence in 
 the “ Umatilla ” to San Francisco, with a crowd 
 of Haoles, and at San Francisco took their pass¬ 
 age by the mail brigantine, the (i Tropic Bird,” 
 for Papeete, the chief place of the French in the 
 South Islands. Thither they came, after a pleas¬ 
 ant voyage, on a fair day of the trade-wind, and 
 saw the reef with the surf breaking, and Motuti 
 with its palms, and the schooners riding within- 
 «ide, and the white houses of the town low down 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP, 
 
 51 
 
 along the shore among green trees, and overhead 
 the mountains and the clouds of Tahiti, the Wise 
 Island. 
 
 It was judged the most wise to hire a house, 
 which they did accordingly, opposite the British 
 Consul’s; to make a great parade of money, and 
 themselves conspicuous with carriages and horses. 
 This was very easy to do so long as they had the 
 bottle in their possession, for Kokua was more 
 bold than Keawe, and whenever she had a mind, 
 called on the imp for twenty or a hundred dol¬ 
 lars. At this rate they soon grew to be remarked 
 in the town; and the strangers from Hawaii, 
 their riding and their driving, the fine holokus 
 and the rich lace of Kokua, became the matter of 
 much talk. 
 
 They got on well after the first with the Tahi¬ 
 tian language, which is like to the Hawaiian, 
 with a change of certain letters; and as soon as 
 they had any freedom of speech, began to push 
 the bottle. You are to consider it was no easy 
 subject to introduce; it was not easy to persuade 
 people you were in earnest when you offered to 
 
52 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 sell them for four centimes the spring of health 
 and riches inexhaustible. It was necessary, be¬ 
 sides, to explain the dangers of the bottle; and 
 either people disbelieved the whole thing and 
 laughed, or they thought the more of the darker 
 part, became overcast with gravity, and drew 
 away from Keawe and Kokua as from persons 
 who had dealings with the devil. So far from 
 gaining ground, these two began to find they 
 were avoided in the town; the children ran away 
 from them screaming, a thing intolerable to 
 Kokua; Catholics crossed themselves as they went 
 by, and all persons began with one accord to dis¬ 
 engage themselves from their advances. 
 
 ~ Depression fell upon their spirits. They 
 would sit at night in their new house, after a 
 day’s weariness, and not exchange one word; or 
 the silence would be broken by Kokua bursting 
 suddenly into sobs. Sometimes they would pray 
 together, sometimes they would have the bottle 
 out upon the floor and sit all evening watching 
 how the shadow hovered in the midst. At such 
 times they would be afraid to go to rest; it was 
 
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 53 
 
 long ere slumber came to them, and if either 
 dozed off, it would be to wake and find the other 
 silently weeping in the dark; or perhaps to wake 
 alone, the other having fled from the house and 
 the neighborhood of that bottle, to pace under 
 the bananas in the little garden, or to wander 
 on the beach by moonlight. 
 
 One night it was so when Kokua awoke. 
 Keawe was gone; she felt in the bed, and his 
 place was cold. Then fear fell upon her, and she 
 sat up in bed. A little moonshine filtered 
 through the shutters; the room was bright, and 
 she could spy the bottle on the floor. Outside it 
 blew high, the great trees of the avenue cried out 
 aloud, and the fallen leaves rattled in the 
 veranda. In the midst of this Kokua was aware 
 of another sound; whether of a beast or of a 
 man, she could scarce tell; but it was as sad as 
 death, and cut her to the soul. Softly she arose, 
 set the door ajar, and looked forth into the moon¬ 
 lit yard. There, under the bananas, lay Keawe, 
 his mouth in the dust, and as he lay he moaned. 
 
 It was Kokua’s first thought to run forward 
 
54 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 and console him. Her second potently withheld 
 her. Keawe had borne himself before his wife 
 like a brave man; it became her little in the hour 
 of weakness to intrude upon his shame. With 
 the thought she drew back into the house. 
 
 “Heaven!” she thought, “how careless I 
 have been—how weak! It is he, not I, that 
 stands in this eternal peril; it was he, not I, that 
 took the curse upon his soul. It is for my sake, 
 and for the love of a creature of so little worth 
 and such poor help that he now beholds so close 
 to him the flames of hell, ay, and smells the 
 smoke of it, lying without there in the wind and 
 moonlight. Am I so dull of spirit that never till 
 now I have surmised my duty? or have I seen it 
 before and turned aside? But now, at least, I 
 take up my soul in both the hands of my affec¬ 
 tion; now I say farewell to the white steps of 
 heaven and the waiting faces of my friends. A 
 love for a love, and let mine be equaled with 
 Keawe’s! A soul for a soul, and let it be mine 
 . to perish!” 
 
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THE BOTTLE IMP. 55 
 
 IV. 
 
 This was a deft woman with her hands, and 
 she was soon appareled. She took in her hands 
 the change; the precious centimes they kept ever 
 at their side, for this coin is little used, and they 
 had made provision at a government office. When 
 she was forth in the avenue, clouds came on the 
 wind, and the moon was blackened. The town 
 slept, and she knew not wither to turn till she 
 
 i 
 
 heard some one coughing in the shadow of the 
 trees. 
 
 44 Old man/’ said Kokua, 44 what do you here 
 abroad in the cold night?” 
 
 The old man could scarce express himself for 
 coughing, but she made out that he was old and 
 poor, and a stranger in the island. 
 
 44 Will you do me a service?” said Kokua. 
 44 As one stranger to another, and as an old man 
 to a young woman, will you help a daughter of 
 
66 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 .“Ah!” said the old man, “so you are the 
 witch from the eight islands? And even my old 
 soul you seek to entangle. But I have heard of 
 you, and defy your wickedness!” 
 
 “Sit down here,” said Kokua, “ and let me 
 tell you a tale.” 
 
 And she told him the story of Keawe from the 
 beginning to the end. 
 
 “ But now,” said she, “ I am his wife, whom 
 he bought with his souks welfare. And what 
 should I do? If I went to him myself and 
 offered to buy it, he will refuse. But if you go, 
 he will sell it eagerly. I will await you here; 
 you will buy it for four centimes, and I will buy 
 it again for three. And the Lord strengthen a 
 poor girl!” 
 
 “ If you meant falsely,” said the old man, “ I 
 think God would strike you dead.” 
 
 “ He would!” cried Kokua. “ Be sure He 
 would. I could not be so treacherous. God 
 would not suffer it.” 
 
 “ Give me the four centimes and await me 
 here,” said the old ma^ 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 57 
 
 Now, when Kokua stood alone in the street, 
 her spirit died. The wind roared in the trees, 
 and it seemed to her the rushing of the flames 
 of hell; the shadows tossed in the light of the 
 street-lamps, and they seemed to her in the 
 snatching hands of evil ones. If she had had the 
 strength, she must have run away, and if she had 
 had the breath, she must have screamed aloud; 
 but in truth she could do neither, and stood and 
 trembled in the avenue like an affrighted child. 
 
 Then she saw the old man returning, and he 
 had the bottle in his hand. 
 
 “ I have done your bidding,” said he, “ I left 
 your husband weeping like a child; to-night he 
 will sleep easy.” 
 
 And he held the bottle forth. 
 
 “Before you give it me,” Kokua panted, 
 “ take the good with the evil—ask to be delivered 
 from your cough.” 
 
 “ I am an old man,” replied the other, “ and 
 too near the gate of the grave to take a favor 
 from the devil. But what is this? Why do you 
 not take the bottle? Do you hesitate?” 
 
i 
 
 58 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 “ Not hesitate!” cried Kokua. “I am only 
 weak. Give me a ✓moment. It is my hand 
 resists; my flesh shrinks back from the accursed 
 thing. One moment only!” 
 
 The old man looked upon Kokua kindly. 
 
 “ Poor child!” said he, “you fear your soul 
 misgives you. Well, let me keep it. I am old, 
 and can never more be happy in this world; and 
 as for the next—” 
 
 “ Give it me!” gasped Kokua. “ There is 
 your money. Do you think I am so base as that? 
 Give me the bottle.” 
 
 “ God bless you, child,” said the old man. 
 
 Kokua concealed the bottle under her holoku, 
 said farewell to the old man, and walked off 
 along the avenue, she cared not whither, for all 
 roads were now the same to her, and led 
 equally to hell. Sometimes she walked, and 
 sometimes ran; sometimes she screamed out loud 
 in the night, and sometimes lay by the way-side 
 in the dust and wept. All that she had heard of 
 hell came back to her; she saw the flames blaze, 
 and she smelled the smoke, and her flesh 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP, 
 
 69 
 
 withered on the coals. Near day she came to her 
 mind again, and returned to the house. It was 
 even as the old man said, Keawe slumbered like a 
 child. Kokua stood and gazed upon his face. 
 
 “ Now, my husband,” said she, “it is your 
 turn to sleep. When you wake it will be your 
 turn to sing and laugh. But for poor Kokua, 
 alas! that meant no evil—for poor Kokua no 
 more sleep, no more singing, no more delight, 
 whether in earth or heaven.” 
 
 With that she lay down in the bed by his side, 
 and her misery was so extreme that she fell in a 
 deep slumber instantly. 
 
 Late in the morning her husband awoke her 
 and gave her the good news. It seemed he was 
 silly with delight, for he paid no heed to her 
 distress, ill though she dissembled it. The words 
 stuck in her mouth, it mattered not; Keawe did 
 the speaking. She eat not a bite, but who was 
 to observe it? For Keawe cleared the dish. 
 Kokua saw and heard him, like some strange 
 thing in a dream; there were times when she for¬ 
 got or doubted, and put her hands to her brow; 
 
60 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 to know herself doomed and hear her husband 
 babble, seemed so monstrous. 
 
 All the while Keawe was eating, and talking, 
 and planning the time of their return, and 
 thanking her for saving him, and fondling her, 
 and calling her the true helper after all. He 
 laughed at the old man that was fool enough to 
 buy that bottle. 
 
 “ A worthy old man, he seemed,” Keawe said. 
 
 “ But no one can judge by appearances. For 
 why did the old reprobate require the bottle?” 
 
 “My husband,” said Kokua, humbly, “his 
 purpose may have been good.” 
 
 Keawe laughed like an angry man. 
 
 “Fiddle-de-dee!” cried Keawe. “An old 
 rogue, I tell you. And an old ass, to boot. 
 For the bottle was hard enough to sell at four 
 centimes; at three it will be quite impossible. 
 The margin is not broad enough; the thing 
 begins to smell of scorching—b-r-r-i!” said he, 
 and shuddered. “It is true, I bought it myself . 
 for a cent, when I knew not there were smaller 
 coins. I was a fool for my pains; there will 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 61 
 
 never be found another; and whoever has that 
 bottle now will carry it to the pit.” 
 
 “ Oh, my husband!” said Kokua, “ is it not a 
 terrible thing to save ourselves by the eternal 
 ruin of another? It seems to me I could not 
 laugh; I would be humbled; I would be filled 
 with melancholy; I would pray for the poor 
 holder.” 
 
 Then Keawe, because he felt the truth of what 
 she said, grew the more angry. “ Hoighty- 
 toighty!” cried he. 4 4 You may be filled with 
 melancholy if you please. It is not the mind of 
 a good wife. If you thought at all of me, you 
 would sit shamed. ” 
 
 Thereupon he went out, and Kokua was alone. 
 
 What chance had she to sell the bottle at three 
 centimes? None she perceived. And if she had 
 any, here was her husband hurrying her away to 
 a country where was nothing lower than a cent. 
 And here—on the morrow of her sacrifice—here 
 was her husband leaving her and blaming her! 
 
 She would not even try to profit by what time 
 she had, but sat in the house, and now had the 
 
62 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 bottle out and viewed it with unutterable fear, 
 and now with loathing, hid it out of sight. 
 
 By and by Keawe came back and would have 
 her take a drive. 
 
 “ My husband, I am ill,” she said. “I am 
 out of heart. Excuse me, I take no pleasure.” 
 
 Then was Keawe more wroth than ever with 
 her because he thought she was brooding over 
 the case of the old man, and with himself because 
 he thought she was right and was ashamed to be 
 so happy. 
 
 “ This is your truth,” cried he, “ and this 
 your affection! Your husband is just saved from 
 eternal ruin, which he encountered for the love 
 of you—and you can take no pleasure! Kokua, 
 you have a disloyal heart.” 
 
 He went forth again, furious, and wandered 
 in the town all day. He met friends and drank 
 with them; they hired a carriage and drove into 
 the country, and there drank again. All the time 
 Keawe was ill at ease because he was taking his 
 pastime while his wife was sad, and because he 
 knew in his heart that she was more right than 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 63 
 
 he, and the knowledge made him drink the 
 deeper. 
 
 Now, there was an old brutal Haole drinking 
 with him—one that had been a boatswain of a 
 whaler, a runaway, a digger in gold mines, a con¬ 
 vict in prisons. He had a low mind and a foul 
 mouth; he loved to drink and to see others 
 drunk, and he pressed the glass upon Keawe. 
 Soon there was no more money in the company. 
 
 ‘ 4 Here, you/’ says the boatswain, “ you are 
 rich, you have been always saying. You have a 
 bottle or some foolishness.” 
 
 “ Yes,” says Keawe, “ I am rich. I will go 
 back and get some money from my wife, who 
 keeps it.” 
 
 * 
 
 “ That’s a bad idea, mate,” said the boat¬ 
 swain. “ Never you trust a petticoat with dollars. 
 They’re all false as water; you keep an eye on 
 
 her.” 
 
 Now, this word stuck in Keawe’s mind, for he 
 was muddled with what he had been drinking. 
 
 “ I should not wonder but what she was false, 
 indeed,” thought he. “ Why else should she be 
 
 i 
 
64 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 so cast down at my release? But I will show her 
 that I am not the man to be fooled. I will catch 
 her in the act.” 
 
 Accordingly, when they were back in town, 
 Keawe bid the boatswain wait for him at the cor¬ 
 ner by the old calaboose, and went forward up 
 the avenue alone to the door of his house. The 
 night had come again; there was a light within, 
 but never a sound; and Keawe crept about the 
 corner, opened the back door softly, and looked 
 in. 
 
 There was Kokua on the floor, the lamp at her 
 side; before her was a milk-white bottle with a 
 round belly and a long neck, and as she viewed it 
 Kokua wrung her hands. 
 
 A long time Keawe stood and looked in the 
 door-way. At first he was struck stupid, and 
 then fear fell upon him that the bargain had 
 been made amiss and the bottle had come back to 
 him, as it came at San Francisco; and at that 
 his knees were loosened, and the fumes of the 
 wine departed from his head like mists off a river 
 in the morning. And then he had another 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 65 
 
 thought, and it was a strange one, that made his 
 cheeks burn. 
 
 " I must make sure of this,” thought he. 
 
 So he closed the door and went softly round 
 the corner again, and then came noisily in as 
 though he were but now returned. 
 
 And lo! by the time he opened the front door no 
 bottle was to be seen, and Kokua sat in a chair 
 and started up like one wakened out of sleep. 
 
 “ I have been drinking all day and making 
 merry,” said Keawe. <c I have been with good 
 companions, and now I only come back for 
 money and return to drink and carouse with 
 them again.” 
 
 Both his face and voice were stem as judg¬ 
 ment, but Kokua was too troubled to observe. 
 
 u You do well to use your own, my husband,” 
 said she, and her words trembled. 
 
 “ Oh, I do well in all things,” said Keawe; 
 and he went straight for the chest and took out 
 money. But he looked, besides, in a corner 
 where they kept the bottle, and there was no 
 bottle there. 
 
66 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP, 
 
 At that the chest heaved upon the floor like a 
 sea-billow, and the house spun about him like a 
 wreath of smoke; for he saw that he was lost 
 now, and there was no escape. 
 
 “ It was what I feared/’ he thought. “It is 
 she who has bought it.” 
 
 And then he came to himself a little and rose 
 up, but the sweat streamed on his face as thick as 
 the rain and as cold as the well-water. 
 
 “ Kokua,” said he, “ I said to you to-day what 
 ill became me. Now I return to house with my 
 jolly companions,” and at that he laughed a 
 little quietly. “ I will take more pleasure in the 
 cup if your forgive me.” 
 
 She clasped his knees in a moment, she kissed 
 his knees with flowing tears. 
 
 “ Oh!” she cried, “ I asked but a kind 
 word!” 
 
 “ Let us never think hardly of the other,” said 
 Keawe, and was gone out of the house. 
 
 Now, the money Keawe had taken was only 
 some of that store of centime pieces they had laid 
 in at their arrival. It was very sure he had no 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 67 
 
 mind to be drinking. His wife had given her 
 soul for him, now he must give his tor hers; no 
 other thought was in the world with him. 
 
 At the corner of the old calaboose there was 
 the old boatswain waiting. 
 
 “ My wife has the bottle,” said Keawe, “ and 
 unless you help me to recover it there can be no 
 more money and no more liquor to-night.” 
 
 “ You do not mean to say you are serious 
 about that bottle?” cried the boatswain. 
 
 “ There is the lamp,” said Keawe. “ Do I 
 look as if I were jesting?” 
 
 “ That is so,” said the boatswain. “ You look 
 as serious as a ghost. ” 
 
 “ Well, then,” said Keawe, “ here are three 
 centimes; you must go to my wife in the house 
 and offer her those for the bottle, which (if I am 
 not much mistaken) She will give you instantly. 
 Bring it to me here, and I will buy it back from 
 you for two; for that is the law with this bottle, 
 that it still must be sold for a less sum. But 
 whatever you do, never breathe a word to her 
 that you have come from me. 
 
 
68 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP. 
 
 
 44 Mate, I wonder are you making a fool of 
 me?” asked the boatswain. 
 
 44 It will do you no harm if I am,” returned 
 Keawe. . i 
 
 44 That is so, mate,” said the boatswain. 
 
 44 And if you doubt me,” added Keawe, 44 you 
 can try. As soon as you are clear of the house, 
 wish to have your pocket full of money, or a 
 bottle of the best rum, or what you please, and 
 you will see the virtue of the thing.” 
 
 44 Very well, Kanaka,” says the boatswain, 44 1 
 will try; but if you are having your fun out of 
 me, I will take my fun out of you with a belay- 
 
 ing-pm” 
 
 So the whaleman went off up the avenue, and 
 Keawe stood and waited. It was near the same 
 spot where Kokua had waited the night before, 
 but Keawe was more resolved, and never faltered 
 in his purpose; only his soul was bitter with 
 despair. 
 
 It seemed a long time he had to wait before he 
 heard a voice singing in the darkness of the 
 •venue. He knew the voice to be the boat- 
 
THE BOTTLE IMP. 69 
 
 swain’s, but it was strange how drunken it ap¬ 
 peared upon a sudden. 
 
 Next the man himself came stumbling into the 
 light of the lamp. He had the deviPs bottle 
 buttoned in his coat; another bottle was in hi3 
 hand, and even as he came in view he raised it to 
 his mouth and drank. 
 
 ‘/You have it,” said Keawe. “ I see that.” 
 
 * 
 
 “ Hands off!” cried the boatswain, jumping 
 back. “ Take a step near me, and I’ll smash 
 your mouth! You thought you could make a 
 cat’s-paw of me, did you?” 
 
 “ What do you mean?” cried Keawe. 
 
 “ Mean?” cried the boatswain. “ This is a 
 pretty good bottle, this is, that’s what I mean. 
 How I got it for three centimes, I can’t make 
 out; but I’m sure you sha’n’t have it for two.” 
 
 “ You mean you won’t sell?” gasped Keawe. 
 
 “No, sir!” cried the boatswain. “But I’ll 
 give you a drink of the rum, if you like.” 
 
 “ I tell you,” said Keawe, “ the man who has 
 that bottle goes to hell.” 
 
 “ I reckon I’m going, anyway,” returned the 
 
70 
 
 THE BOTTLE IMP, 
 
 sailor, “ and this bottle’s the best thing to go 
 with I’ve struck yet. No, sir,” he cried again, 
 “ this is my bottle now, and you can go and fish 
 for another.” 
 
 “ Can this be true?” Keawe cried. “ For 
 your own sake, I beseech you, sell it me!” 
 
 “ I don’t value any of your talk,” said the 
 boatswain. 44 You thought I was a flat; now 
 you see I am not, and there’s an end. If you 
 won’t have a swallow of rum. I’ll have one my¬ 
 self. Here’s your health, and good-night to 
 you!” 
 
 So off he went down the avenue, toward town, 
 and there goes the bottle out of the story. 
 
 But Keawe ran to Kokua light as the wind; 
 and great was their joy that night, and great, 
 since then, has been the peace of all their days in 
 the Bright House. 
 
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 Mrs. Forrester. 
 
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