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Not a mile from me were the villa and the yacht, and the three persons of the drama three, that is, if Davies were safe. Were we to land at Norderney harbour? Heavens, what a magnificent climax! if only I could rise to it. My work here was done. At a stroke to rejoin Davies and be free to consummate our designs!
That gale was the last of a stormy equinox. We took the inside route as a matter of course to-day. It was now the shortest to Norderney harbour, and scarcely less intricate than the Wichter Ee, which appeared to be almost totally blocked by banks, and is, in fact, the most impassable of all these outlets to the North Sea.
Dollmann introduced us, calling him Commander von Brüning, in command of the torpedo gunboat Blitz. He pointed towards Norderney, and I saw her a low, grey rat of a vessel anchored in the Roads about two miles away. It turned out that she was doing the work of fishery guardship on that part of the coast. 'I must say I took to him at once.
"Oh, well it's all over now. Let's be thankful and think no more about it." "All very fine, Jemima. You're going home." "Thank goodness." "And not coming back. Lucky Pigleinchen." "Well, so am I," said Miriam, "and I'm not coming back." "I say! Aren't you coming to Norderney?" Gertrude flashed dark eyes at her. "Can't you come to Norderney?" said Judy thickly, at her elbow.
They, when they came aboard, went straight below, and Grimm, having steadied the tug on a settled course and entrusted the wheel to the sailor again, stripped off his dripping oilskin coat, threw it down on the cabin skylight, and followed them. The course he had set was about west, with Norderney light a couple of points off the port bow. The course for Memmert?
'You know what I was saying about the Frisian Islands the other day? A thing happened there which I never told you, when you were asking about my cruise. 'It began near Norderney, I put in. 'How did you guess that? he asked. 'You're a bad hand at duplicity, I replied. 'Go on. 'Well, you're quite right, it was there, on 9th September.
Davies struggled out of his armour. 'I'm convinced, he said, 'that he's an Englishman in German service. He must be in German service, for he had evidently been in those waters a long time, and knew every inch of them; of course, it's a very lonely part of the world, but he has a house on Norderney Island; and he, and all about him, must be well known to a certain number of people.
Come on, Jim." Miriam moved, with Judy following at her elbow, across the room to Millie. She looked up with her little plaintive frown. Miriam could not remember what her plans were. "Let's see," she said, "you're going to Norderney, aren't you?" "I'm not going to Norderney," said Nellie almost tearfully. "I only wish I were. I don't even know I'm coming back next term."
'And what's being done now? 'Well, recently a small local company was formed. It has a depot at Memmert, and is working with a good deal of perseverance. An engineer from Bremen was the principal mover, and a few men from Norderney and Emden subscribed the capital. By the way, our friend Dollmann is largely interested in it.
All, except Borkum, which is round, are attenuated strips, slightly crescent-shaped, rarely more than a mile broad, and tapering at the ends; in length averaging about six miles, from Norderney and Juist, which are seven and nine respectively, to little Baltrum, which is only two and a half.
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