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So did the galliot we had seen last night, but we again missed identifying her, as she weighed anchor before we came up to her berth. Davies, however, swore she was the Kormoran.
The usual formula, 'What have you got now? checked my reverie, and 'Helm's a-lee, ended it for the time. Suddenly Davies said: 'Is that a boat ahead? 'Do you mean that galliot? I asked. I could plainly distinguish one of those familiar craft about half a mile away, just within the limit of vision. 'The Kormoran, do you think? I added. Davies said nothing, but grew inattentive to his work.
'Juist, by Jove! said Davies, as we walked on. 'Why are those three going to Juist? 'I should have thought it was pretty clear. They're on their way to Memmert. Davies agreed, and we both looked longingly westward at a straw-coloured streak on the sea. 'Is it some meeting, do you think? said Davies. 'Looks like it. We shall probably find the Kormoran here, wind-bound.
In the Red Sea the northeastern monsoon, which here blows southeast, could bring us to Djidda. I had heard in Padang that Turkey was still allied with Germany, so we would be able to get safely through Arabia to Germany. "I next waited for information through ships, but the Choising did not know anything definite, either. By way of the Luchs, the Königsberg and Kormoran the reports were uncertain.
It was safer to be consistent now. After breakfast we determined to find out something about the Kormoran, which lay on the mud at the other side of the harbour, and accordingly addressed ourselves to two mighty sailors, whose jerseys bore the legend 'Post', and who towered conspicuous among a row of stolid Frisians on the quay, all gazing gravely down at us as at a curious bit of marine bric-
Come ashore and knock up Dollmann; we must denounce him, and get them both aboard; it's now or never. While he put on Christian attire, I resumed my facts and sketched a plan. 'Are you watched? I asked. 'I think so; by the Kormoran's men. 'Is the Kormoran here? 'Yes. 'The men? 'Not to-night. Grimm called for them in that tug. I was watching. And, Carruthers. the Blitz is here. 'Where?
His news was that the Blitz's steam-cutter had come in on the morning tide, and he had met von Brüning when marketing at the inn. Secondly, the Kormoran had also come in, and was moored close by.
'We weighed anchor at one o'clock, and in passing the anchored galliot took a good look at her. Kormoran was on her stern; otherwise she was just like a hundred others. Nobody was on deck.
Something was going on at Memmert to-day; our men had gone there; here were we, ten miles away, in a smothering, blinding fog. It was known we were here Dollmann and Grimm knew it; the crew of the Medusa knew it; the crew of the Kormoran knew it; the man on the pier, whether he cared or not, knew it. But none of them knew Davies as I knew him. Would anyone dream for an instant ?
She must have entered the Otzumer Ee at high-water for shelter from the gale: a neat bit of work for a vessel of her size, as Davies says she draws nine-foot-ten, and there can't be more than twelve on the bar at high-water neaps. Several smacks had run in too, and there were two galliots farther up our channel, but we couldn't make out if the Kormoran was one.
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