“Yesterday morning when I went outside my house I saw this young girl with the lovely face; then a great longing took possession of me.

“And because I remembered that you were the one who fulfilled my wishes, therefore I have come up here again.”

Said Malio to her brother, “That is Laielohelohe, another of Waka’s grandchildren; she is betrothed to Kekalukaluokewa, to be his wife.  Therefore go and watch the girl’s house without being seen for four days, and see what she does; then come back and tell me; then I will send you to seduce the girl.  I can not do it by my power, for they are two.”

At these words of Malio, Halaaniani went to spy outside of Laielohelohe’s house without being seen; almost twice ten days he lay in wait; then he saw Laielohelohe stringing lehua blossoms.  He came repeatedly many days; there she was stringing lehua blossoms.

Halaaniani returned to his sister as he had been directed, and told her what he had seen of Laielohelohe.

When Malio heard the story she told her brother what to do to win Laielohelohe, and said to Halaaniani, “Go now, and in the middle of the night come up here to me, and we two will go to Laielohelohe’s place.”

Halaaniani went away, and close to the appointed time, then he arose and joined his sister.  His sister took a ti-leaf trumpet and went with her brother, and came close to the place where Laielohelohe was wont to string lehua blossoms.

Then Malio said to Halaaniani, “You climb up in the lehua tree where you can see Laielohelohe, and there you stay.  Listen to me play on the ti-leaf trumpet; when I have blown five times, if you see her turn her eyes to the place where the sound comes from, then we shall surely win, but if she does not look toward where I am playing, then we shall not win to-day.”

As they were speaking there was a crackling in the bushes at the place where Laielohelohe strung lehua blossoms, and when they looked, there was Laielohelohe breaking lehua blossoms.

Then Halaaniani climbed up the trunk of a tree and kept watch.  When he was up the tree, Malio’s trumpet sounded, again it sounded a second time, so on until the fifth time, but Halaaniani did not see the girl turn her eyes or listen to the sound.

Malio waited for Halaaniani to return and tell what he had seen, but as he did not return, Malio again blew on the trumpet five times; still Halaaniani did not see Laielohelohe pay the least attention until she went away altogether.

Halaaniani came back and told his sister, and his sister said, “We have not won her with the trumpet; shall we try my nose flute?”

The two returned home, and very early in the morning, they came again to the same place where they had lain in ambush before.

No sooner were they arrived than Laielohelohe arrived also at her customary station.  Malio had already instructed her brother, as follows: