He said that it was that same ship which lay near them, a wreck among the waves, and his sister lay buried beneath their feet.
The family did not hear of the wreck till some time after the burial, and then they knew for the first time what their mother had done with the amulet.

His brother came over at once to this town to seek it, but in vain.

The people said they had not seen the necklace; that it had certainly not been buried with the girl.

The people seemed simple and honest; the brother was a shrewd man, and he believed that they spoke the truth.

He returned home, in distress; they could not tell what to think, for they knew their sister would not have dared to take off the necklace, and the chain was too strong to be broken by the violence of the waves.
Some months after they heard that there was a young Englishman dying in Antwerp who came from this town.