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We're better without an address, I suppose. 'There's Cuxhaven, reflected Davies; 'but that's too near, and there's but we don't want to be tied down to landing anywhere. I tell you what: say "Post Office, Norderney", just your name, not the yacht's. We may get there and be able to call for letters. The casual character of our adventure never struck me more strongly than then.
We crossed some deserted public gardens commanded by a gorgeous casino, its porticos heaped with chairs and tables; so past kiosques and cafés, great white hotels with boarded windows, bazaars and booths, and all the stale lees of vulgar frivolity, to the post-office, which at least was alive. On the return journey to-day it was due at Norderney at 7.30 p.m.
There might be something on Borkum to defend the Ems; but it's very unlikely, and, anyway, I had passed Borkum and was at Norderney. There's nothing else to defend. Of course it's different in the second division, where the big rivers are. There are probably hosts of forts and mines round Wilhelmshaven and Bremerhaven, and at Cuxhaven just at the mouth of the Elbe.
We are at our villa in the Schwannallée my stepmother and I, that is. She added some details, and Davies gravely pencilled down the address on a leaf of the log-book; a formality which somehow seemed to regularize the present position. 'We shall be at Norderney to-morrow, he said.
I insisted on being obtuse, for though this fencing with an unstrung girl was hateful work, the quest was at stake. We were going to Norderney, come what might, and sooner or later we must see Dollmann. It was no use promising not to. I had given no pledge to von Brüning, and I would give none to her. Against her own father?
The first and least familiar was, I made out, from the lighthouse on Wangeroog; the second, well known to me as our beacon star in the race from Memmert, was the light on the centre of Norderney Island, about ten miles away. I had no accurate idea of the time, for I could not see my watch, but I thought we must have started about a quarter past eleven.
'I like Norderney and we might have another sail in your dinghy, fräulein, he blurted out. 'Thank you, she said, in that low dry voice I had heard yesterday; 'but I think I shall not be sailing again it is getting too cold. 'Oh, no! said Davies, 'it's splendid. But she had turned to von Brüning, and took no notice.
I set myself to the lead again, averse to reopening a barren argument. Grimm had done his work for the present, I felt certain, and was on his way by the shortest road to Norderney and Memmert. We were soon outside and heading west, our boom squared away and the island sand-dunes just apparent under our lee. Then the breeze died to the merest draught, and left us rolling inert in a long swell.
But when we got to Norderney, we found the CAROLINE with shore end lying apparently aground, and could not understand her signals; so we had to anchor suddenly and I went off in a small boat with the captain to the CAROLINE. It was cold by this time, and my arm was rather stiff and I was tired; I hauled myself up on board the CAROLINE by a rope and found H- and two men on board.
You were pretty quick getting to Flensburg. Wait a bit, we want another chart. Is this the next? 'Yes; but we scarcely need it. I only went a little way farther on to Norderney, in fact, the third German island then I decided to go straight for the Baltic. I had always had an idea of getting there, as Knight did in the Falcon.
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