" Hallman was in his early forties, with twenty years of South-Seas trading, a tall, strong, well-featured, but hard-faced, European, with thin lips over nearly perfect teeth, and cold, small, pale-blue eyes.

Hallman had kept a store there then for more than ten years, and had a good part of the business of buying and shipping copra and selling supplies to the natives and a few whites.

I know them all, and only yesterday I heard Hallman call his son on the main-deck, away from where any one could see him, and threaten him with 'putting him back in the jungle, where he came from,' if he appeared again near the first-class space.

Hallman was also in the social hall, and, after waltzing with her several times, had persuaded her to dance the hula.

Most of the passengers were Australians and New-Zealanders returning home, and only a few were bound for Tahitithe Tahitian women, the Swiss, Hallman and his son, and M. Leboucher, a young merchant, born there, of a Spanish mother.

" "That's rot!" broke in Hallman, who entered the smoking-room.

Forgotten was the wraith of Leung Kai Chu, the jungle trail of Hallman, and even the trepidation with which we had awaited the sailing ship's boat.

Hallman, with whom I journeyed on the Noa-Noa, dropped into the Cercle Bougainville occasionally, but he was ordinarily too much occupied with his schemes of trade.

Besides, he had only one absorbing vice other than business, and with merely wine and song to be found at the club, Hallman went there but seldom, and only to talk about pearl-shell, copra, and the profits of schooner voyages.

" "He was a damn' fool," said Hallman, who had come in to the Cercle to take away Captain Pincher.

Chief among these people are that most despicable cad Hallman, and secondly, the British Consul.

I climbed the steep stairs, and at the first table saw Fung Wah, a Chinese immigrant importer and pearl merchant, with Lying Bill, McHenry, Hallman, and Landers, the latter only recently back from Auckland.

"Vanilla, hell!" said Hallman, whose harp had one string, "he's been having his pick of country produce.

We'11 be off for Atuona and Hallman's tribe of cannibals nex' mornin'.

" I sat down and quaffed a Doctor Funk, and then inquired idly: "Where's David?" "David!" said Hallman.

" Hallman answered him, spitefully: "For Heaven's sake, Llewellyn, I never heard a living soul mention David before, except at first, when there was so much curiosity.

that's all over!" said Hallman.

Lying Bill shouted at Hallman.

" Our session was over, the dinner hour having come; but Hallman had his final say:

We had a going-away dinner at the Tiare hotel, Landers, Polonsky, McHenry, Hallman, Schlyter, the tailor, and Lieutenant L'Hermier des Plantes, a French army surgeon who was sailing on the Fetia Taiao to the Marquesas to be acting governor there.

R64672 ... YO-HO FOR YOLO, by Sam Hallman.

(In the Saturday evening post) © Sam Hallman (A) Nov. 25, 1923 issue.

By William Makepeace Thackeray, illustrated by Adolf Hallman.

R64672 ... YO-HO FOR YOLO, by Sam Hallman.

(In the Saturday evening post) © Sam Hallman (A) Nov. 25, 1923 issue.