I gather that Tamasese was at the time in the sulks.

He had doubtless been promised prompt aid and a prompt success; he had seen himself surreptitiously helped, privately ordered about, and publicly disowned; and he was still the king of nothing more than his own province, and already the second in command of Captain Brandeis.

With the adhesion of some part of his native cabinet, and behind the back of his white minister, he found means to communicate with the Hawaiians.

A passage on the _Kaimiloa_, a pension, and a home in Honolulu were the bribes proposed; and he seems to have been tempted.

A day was set for a secret interview.