At a corner he stopped to watch a group of Kanakas who passed him, wreathed with leis and thrumming their ukuleles. They sang in their soft, many-voweled language and the sound was to Harrigan like the rush and lapse of water on a beach, infinitely soothing and as lazy as the atmosphere of Honolulu. All things are subdued in the strange city where East and West meet in the middle of the Pacific. The gayest crowds cannot quite disturb the brooding peace which is like the promise of sleep and rest at sunset. It was not pleasing to Harrigan. He frowned and drew a quick, impatient breath, muttering: "I'm not long for this joint. I gotta be moving." He joined a crowd which eddied toward the center of Ivilei. In there it was better. Negro soldiers, marines from the _Maryland_, Kanakas, Chinamen, Japanese, Portuguese, Americans; a score of nationalities and complexions rubbed shoulders as they wandered aimlessly among the many bright-painted cottages. Yet even in that careless throng of pleasure-seekers no one rubbed shoulders with Harrigan. The flame of his hair was like a red lamp which warned them away. Or perhaps it was his eye, which seemed to linger for a cold, incurious instant on every face that approached. He picked out the prettiest of the girls who sat at the windows chatting with all who passed. He did not have to shoulder to win a way through the crowd of her admirers. She was a _hap haoli_, with the fine features of the Caucasian and the black of hair and eye which shows the islander. A rounded elbow rested on the sill of the window; her chin was cupped in her hand. "Send these away," said Harrigan, and leaned an elbow beside hers. "Oh," she murmured; then: "And if I send them away?" "I'll reward you." "Reward?" For answer he dragged a crimson carnation from the buttonhole of a tall man who stood at his side. "What in hell--" began the victim, but Harrigan smiled and the other drew slowly back through the crowd. "Now send them away." She looked at him an instant longer with a light coming slowly up behind her eyes. Then she leaned out and waved to the chuckling semicircle. "Run away for a while," she said; "I want to talk to my brother." She patted the thick red hair to emphasize the relationship, and the little crowd departed, laughing uproariously. Harrigan slipped the carnation into the jetty hair. His hand lingered a moment against the soft masses, and she drew it down, grown suddenly serious. "There are three policemen in the shadow of that cottage over there. They're watching you." "Ah-h!" The sound was so soft that it was almost a sigh, but she shivered perceptibly. "What have you been doing?" He answered regretfully: "Nothing." "They're coming this way. The man who had the carnation is with them. You better beat it." "Nope. I like it here." She shook her head, but the flame was blowing high now in her eyes. A hand fell on Harrigan's shoulder. "Hey!" said the sergeant in a loud voice.