halloes

Updated: June 2, 2025

So next morning we went at it again; and the next, and the next again, and then on the fourth day, when our week was drawing to its close, something at last happened to change the grim monotony of our days. It was shortly after the lunch hour. Tom and I, who were now working too far apart to hear each other's halloes, had fired our revolvers once or twice to show that all was right with us.

Richard Le Gallienne - Pieces of Eight : Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903