GAY, SAD SCHEVENINGEN, 105 
“We who watched doubted not her ejacula- 
tion of praise and thanksgiving was finished 
just beyond our dull ears’ hearing, and the 
hand she raised with her last fluttering heart 
beat was laid in the hand of him she saw ‘so 
grand and fair’ waiting for her upon the phan- 
tom ship. 
“When all was over Herr Witzman told me 
Emilie’s sad story. 
“Highteen years before Der Leitstern sailed 
away to fish for herring on the seas about Scot- 
land. No braver, truer man sailed with her 
than Heinrich Bretzel, to whom Emilie was 
betrothed and to whom she should be wed when 
the flotilla returned from its fishing cruise. 
“Searcely a week after the boats went out a 
fearful storm came on; the heavens were black 
for days, and the angry sea below seemed ris- 
ing to meet the angry sky above. Der Lett- 
stern Was never seen again nor its crew heard 
from. But knowing the character and habits of 
the Scheveningen fishermen, we believe that 
after doing their utmost, then, as their custom 
is, they shut every aperture of the boats, and 
going into the cabin read the words of him 
who ‘ruleth the raging of the sea’ and waited 
his will. 
“ When the boats came no more, Emilie, who 
