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By this exploit of saving the yacht Jens became famed as a hero far and wide ; from that day forward , he was one of my father 's trusted men , and in the following summer he and French Martina were married . I can now calmly write down the little , for me so much , that remains to be told -- for many years it would have been impossible . The storm lasted from Saturday midday until Sunday night , when towards morning the wind gradually subsided into complete stillness , although the sea continued restless . The same day , Monday , at midday , there landed at the parsonage landing-place , not the minister 's white house-boat , that was expected home , but an ordinary tarred , ten-oared boat , with a number of people in it . From it four of the men slowly bore a burden between them up to the house , while a big man and a little woman went , bowed down , hand in hand , after them . It was the minister and his wife . I understood at once what had happened , and my heart cried with despair .