So Niobe, or ‘the green maiden,’ remained in the Maritime Museum, and over a period of barely fourteen years of museum history caused the death of two directors—not the cautious one, he’d managed to get himself transferred—the expiration of an elderly priest at her feet, the violent end of a student from the engineering school and two seniors from St Peter’s Gymnasium who had just passed their final exams, and the demise of four reliable museum guards, most of them married.