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Updated: May 9, 2025
It was only the dead leaves though; many were blown in at the porch; the old wind-tossed trees of the graveyard were losing their foliage in this rising gale, and winter was marching nearer. "Lost at sea, Near the Norden-Fjord, In the storm of the 4th and 5th of August, 1880." She read mechanically under the arch of the doorway; her eyes sought to pierce the distance over the sea.
. . . "near the Norden-Fjord, In the storm of the 4th and 5th of August, At the age of 23 years, Requiescat in pace!" Then Iceland loomed up before her, with its little cemetery lighted up from below the sea-line by the midnight sun.
But surely there was something different about this particular morning, for she had come to-day for the first time to sit in the porch of this chapel and read the names of the dead sailors, perished in their prime. "In memory of GAOS, YVON, Lost at sea Near the Norden-Fjord." Like a great shudder, a gust of wind rose from the sea, and at the same time something fell like rain upon the roof above.
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