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Chapter IX
Pau Pilikia

THERE surely was plenty of sunshine the next morning when Dick came over the rail and found a very bright-eyed girl awaiting him, already decked out in the stephanotis and mulang lei. It someway seemed as if all of the clouds had been cleared away and everything was ready to begin a new day and a new regime of happiness.

"Well," said Dick, still holding her hands after their greetings, "I've got it all worked out to a finish, and I can tell you now that it is as pretty a little scheme as you ever saw; and all that you have to do is to fall in with it and watch it spin along to success with us right in the middle of it. Now sit down here and listen while I hold forth;" and he drew her down beside him on a wide wicker divan. "To begin with, what am I going to call you? You are no longer Evalani, and I can't possibly go back to the chilly distance of calling you Mrs. Malua."

"I was always called Jean," said the girl, smiling.

"All right, Jean it is, then; and now I'll christen you;" which he proceeded to do after the most approved fashion. "Now, the next thing: I gather