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"Stop," replied Philip; "answer me one question. Do you sail in the same vessel with me this time?" "I'd rather be excused," replied Schriften; "I am not looking for the Phantom Ship, Mynheer Vanderdecken;" and, with this reply, the little man turned round, and went away at a rapid pace.
With these Vanderdecken resolved upon setting fire to the house, and thus, if he did not gain his relic, he would at least obtain ample revenge. He brought several armfuls of fodder and laid them at the door of the house, and upon that he piled the fagots and logs of wood, until the door was quite concealed by them.
However, the wind headed them, and went against then more and more, and Vanderdecken walked the deck, swearing at the wind. Just after sunset a vessel spoke him, asking if he did not mean to go into the bay that night.
As soon as she was seated in this way for her feet still remained in the water the shell moved rapidly along, and each moment increased its speed, with no other propelling power than that of her volition. "`Do you fear now, Philip Vanderdecken? "`No! replied I. "She passed her hands across her forehead, threw aside the tresses which had partly concealed her face, and said `Then look at me.
"Captain Vanderdecken, I have come to put myself under your orders, if you will receive me if not, render me your protection; for, as sure as fate, I should have been hanged to-morrow morning, if I had remained in my own ship. The men in the boat have come with the same intention that of joining you, if you will permit them."
Then he returned to Venus, and so the story ends with the eternal damnation of Tannhäuser, just as the ancient legend of the Flying Dutchman ends with the eternal damnation of Vanderdecken. It need hardly be said that this did not satisfy Wagner. He did not like to see people eternally damned; drab, hopeless tragedy was not for him.
"What are we do, Captain Vanderdecken? you know too well our situation it is impossible we can continue long at sea; if we do, the vessel will be drifting at the mercy of the waves, while the crew die a wretched death in their hammocks. At present we have forty men left; in ten days more we shall probably have but twenty; for as the labour becomes more severe, so do they drop down the faster.
The relic has never been taken from him: he has been discharged from the lunatic-asylum, and has been provided with the means of returning to his country. Alas! he has now no country no home nothing in the world to induce him to remain in it. All he asks is to do his duty and to die. The ship was ready to sail for Europe; and Philip Vanderdecken went on board hardly caring whither he went.
I have the paper signed, which I shall not fail to make use of. You are dead, you know, captain; I have your own hand to it, and your wife will be glad to believe it." "She has deceived you, Commandant, to get out of your power, nothing more," said Vanderdecken. "She would spurn a contemptible withered wretch like yourself, were she as free as the wind." "Go on, go on; it will be my turn soon.
There was a cry of joy among the sailors, and they ascribed the favourable change which soon took place in the weather, to our having got quit of Vanderdecken. We soon got under weigh again. The night watch being set, the rest of the crew retired to their berths. One dark and stormy night we were on a voyage from Bergen to Christiansand in a small sloop.
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