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 you have been false, so you must die.” She answered, “Why did you not slay me at home, that my bones might be gathered and buried by my own relatives?” He struck her forehead with the heavy branch of nuts which he had carried, and she fell dead at his feet. Then her cruel betrothed left her lying alone, and rushed down the valley to his own home.

Dwelling in a village not far from the scene of Kaha’s death was a young chief named Maha, who had long been a secret lover of the peerless damsel, and who pined in the silence of unrequited love. To him a spirit having the bright