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Other farms I saw, or thought I saw, and a few more barges lying in side-cuts linked by culverts to the canal, but nothing noteworthy; and mindful that I had to explore the Wittmund side of the railway too, I turned back, already a trifle damped in spirits, but still keenly expectant.
Soon after it took angular tacks to the eastward, and joined another blue line trending south-east, and lettered 'Esens Wittmunde Canal. This canal, however, came to an abrupt end halfway to Wittmund, a neighbouring town. For the first time that day there came to me a sense of genuine inspiration.
Norden was still the objective, but mainly as a railway junction, only remotely as a seaport. Though the possible rendezvous were eight, the possible stations were reduced to five Norden, Hage, Dornum, Esens, Wittmund all on one single line.
I joined a queue of three or four persons who were waiting their turn, flattened myself between them and the partition till I heard him walk out. Not having heard what station he had booked for, I took a fourth-class ticket to Wittmund, which covered all chances.
Of trains from west to east there was only one that need be considered, the same one that I had travelled by last night, leaving Norden at 7.43 and reaching Esens at 8.50, and Wittmund at 9.13. This train, as the reader who was with me in it knows, was in correspondence with another from Emden and the south, and also, I now found, with services from Hanover, Bremen, and Berlin.
A boy brought me a tankard of tawny Munich beer, and, sipping it, I watched. People passed in and out, but nobody spoke to the sailor in mufti. When a quarter of an hour elapsed, a platform door opened, and a raucous voice shouted: 'Hage, Dornum, Esens, Wittmund! A knot of passengers jostled out to the platform, showing their tickets.
'And the connexion to Wittmund? 'Under construction still. 'Langeoog would be going ahead then? 'Oh! he supposed so, but he did not believe in these new-fangled schemes. 'But it was good for trade, I supposed?
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