11 p.m.
A word about Norden , which is a small town seven miles south of Norddeich . When hurriedly scanning the map for coast stations in the cabin yesterday , I had not thought of Norden , because it did not appear to be on the coast , but Davies had noticed it while I slept , and I now saw that his pencilled hint was a shrewd one . The creek he spoke of , though barely visible on the map , _ -LSB- see Map B -RSB- _ flowed into the Ems Estuary in a south-westerly direction . The ` night train ' tallied to perfection , for high tide in the creek would be , as Davies estimated , between 10.30 and 11 p.m. on the night of the 25th ; and the time-table showed that the only night train arriving at Norden was one from the south at 10.46 p.m. . This looked promising . Emden , which I had inclined to on the spur of the moment , was out of court in comparison , for many reasons ; not the least being that it was served by three trains between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. , so that the phrase ` night train ' would be ambiguous and not decisive as with Norden . So far good ; but how was I to spend the intervening time ?