Elegi – Sistereis
‘Sistereis’ is the opposite of a ship’s maiden voyage. It’s a ship’s doomed final voyage.
“All was as it had been upon my previous visit, save that the picture which I have described as having hung at the end of his bed had been cut out of it’s frame, as with a knife, and was gone. With this last link in a strange chain of evidence I close my diary of the voyage”