time. Then when fire come—"
"When what?" cried Dick.
"Fire come Missi Malua house,—he stay 'round then."
Dick started to spring from his car, but the man motioned him back. "No," he said, "You wait! You go back to town, Missi Malua say."
"What for? Where is Mrs. Malua?"
Moto shook his head and gesticulated broadly to take in the entire horizon; "Somewhere," he said, inclusively; "She look for baby."
"For baby? For God's sake, man, what's the matter with you? Where is the baby? What do you mean?"
But Moto held up both hands. "Wait. When fire all pau, then baby gone; no can find. Missi Malua she mos' pupu-le all right. She go look-see a-l-l about. She say when you come back you go Honolulu an' look-see. You go?"
Dick's face was white, but his voice was cool and crisp. "Where are Fong and Mrs. Hookano?" he asked.
"All go look for baby. She say you go too-quick, please. You go all right?"
"Yes," said Dick, "I go now. You say Mrs. Malua I'll find baby and bring him home. You tell her no pilikia—I find him all right;" and turning his car, he started back down the mountain at top speed. And all the way down, he was saying to himself,
