Koolau grunted, but was secretly pleased.

"What have you done with my people?" he demanded. "The boy, the two
women, and the man?"

"They gave themselves up, as I have now come for you to do."

Koolau laughed incredulously.

"I am a free man," he announced. "I have done no wrong. All I ask
is to be left alone. I have lived free, and I shall die free. I
will never give myself up."

"Then your people are wiser than you," answered the young captain.
"Look--they are coming now."

Koolau turned and watched the remnant of his band approach.
Groaning and sighing, a ghastly procession, it dragged its
wretchedness past. It was given to Koolau to taste a deeper
bitterness, for they hurled imprecations and insults at him as they
went by; and the panting hag who brought up the rear halted, and
with skinny, harpy-claws extended, shaking her snarling death's head
from side to side, she laid a curse upon him. One by one they
dropped over the lip-edge and surrendered to the hiding soldiers.

"You can go now," said Koolau to the captain. "I will never give
myself up. That is my last word. Good-bye."

The captain slipped over the cliff to his soldiers. The next