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For the rest, I found the book dull, and, in fact, it sent me to sleep. 21 Blindfold to Memmert 'HERE she comes, said Davies. It was nine o'clock on the next day, 22nd October, and we were on deck waiting for the arrival of the steamer from Norddeich.
It cannot be Norddeich, which I find has a dredged-out low-water channel for the steamer, so tide 'serves' would not apply. Querry; Scheme of defence by land and sea for North Sea Coast? Tugs and pilots for patrol work behind islands, as I always said. Querry; Rondezvous is for inspecting channels? Querry: To be used as line of communication for army corps.
I nodded stupidly over this document so stupidly that I found myself wondering whether Burmer was a place or a person. Then I dozed, to wake with a violent start and find the paper on the floor. Panic-stricken, I hid it away, and went on deck, when I found we were close to Norddeich, running up to the bleakest of bleak jetties thrown out from the dyke-bound polders of the mainland.
We were, I estimated, about half-way to Norddeich, in the Buse Tief, a channel of a navigable breadth, at the utmost of two hundred yards at this period of the tide. Two faint lights, one above the other, twinkled far ahead.
Beyond that a definite scheme of action had still to be thought out. One thing, however, was sure. I was determined to be at Norden to-morrow night, the 25th. A word about Norden, which is a small town seven miles south of Norddeich.
She expects never to see us again. Now, he comes to-morrow by the morning boat, she said. What did that mean? Boat from where? 'I know. From Norddeich on the mainland opposite. There's a railway there from Norden, and a steam ferry crosses to the island. 'At what time? 'Your Bradshaw will tell us here it is: "Winter Service, 8.30 a.m., due at 9.5." 'Let's get away at once.
Back he went to the cabin, leaving the sailor at the helm. . . We ought to be turning to port now; but no on we went, south, for the mainland. Though one plan was frustrated, the longing to get to Davies, once implanted, waxed apace. It was a cul-de-sac leading to one place only, the landing stage at Norddeich.
Grimm was to come, and he's at Memmert. 'Here's the map... Emden and Norddeich are the only coast stations till you get to Wilhelmshaven no, to Carolinensiel; but those are a long way east. 'And Emden's a long way south. Say Norddeich then; but according to this there's no train there after 6.15 p.m.; that's hardly "night". When's high tide on the 25th?
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