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Updated: May 13, 2025
She guessed foul play by seeing that book. 'Of course she did; but I was thinking of something else. There are two stories afloat now yours to von Brüning, the true one, that you followed the Medusa to the short cut; and Dollmann's to her, that you went round the Scharhorn.
But it saves six miles and the Scharhorn. Not that I saved distance. I was fool enough to run aground. 'Ah! said the other, with interest. 'It didn't matter, because I was well inside then. Those sands are difficult at high water. We've come back that way, you know.
'A thousand pardons! said von Brüning, laughing. 'Don't shake my faith in her, I put in. 'I've got to get to England in her. 'Heaven forbid; I was only thinking that there must have been some sea round the Scharhorn that day; a tame affair, no doubt, Herr Davies? 'Scharhorn? said Davies, who did not catch the idiom in the latter sentence. 'Oh, we didn't go that way.
Dollmann lashed the wheel, leaned over her quarter, and shouted, very slowly and distinctly so that I could understand; "Follow me sea too bad for you outside short cut through sands save six miles." A great jagged chunk of it runs out from Cuxhaven in a north-westerly direction for fifteen miles or so, ending in a pointed spit, called the Scharhorn.
The whole resembles an inverted E, or, better still, a rude fork, on whose three deadly prongs, the Scharhorn Reef, the Knecht Sand, and the Tegeler Flat, as on the no less deadly point of the pike, many a good ship splinters herself in northerly gales. Following this simile, the Hohenhörn bank, where Davies was wrecked, is one of those that lie between the upper and middle prongs.
'I was in a fearful fix, not knowing what he had told her. So I said something vague, and then she asked the very question von Brüning did, "Wasn't there a schrecklich sea round the Scharhorn?" 'She didn't know you took the short cut, then? 'No; he hadn't dared to tell her. 'She knew that they took it? 'Yes. He couldn't possibly have hidden that.
To reach the Elbe from the west you nave to go right outside this, round the lightship, which is off the Scharhorn, and double back. Of course, that's what all big vessels do. But, as you see, these sands are intersected here and there by channels, very shallow and winding, exactly like those behind the Frisian Islands.
Yet the short cut did save several miles and a devil of a tumble off the Scharhorn, where two tides meet. I had complete faith in Dollmann, and I suppose I decided that I should be a fool not to take a good chance. I hesitated. I know; but in the end I nodded, and held up my arm as she forged ahead again. Soon after, she shifted her course and I followed.
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