The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-15
FIGHT CHAPTER XXV

lnut HlgnJ. HILeT Il lOHB alu uau- yerous Odyssey, Trygve Mortensen same home to his fathers house. He had fled up t,le coast from Oslo, hiding by day in the forests and title inets, and night after night pounding across the wind in small ,oat just eff shore.
 The old man was asleep, and woke in fright 10 sec the dark figure standing in the door
 Its l." said Trygve "Its l, father'
 Mcrtensen. still half da2ed, stumbled across the floor to take his son by the arm. "Trygye" he said. "Trygve, Is 1t really you"
 His wife sat up and struck a match to the lamp, "Who?' she cried. "Who?'
 Its Trygve"
 Mortensen kept feeling his sons arms and shoulders, looking up at the lean face, the hard and bitter mouth How you have changed" he said. What man you are. Did they set you free?"
 NO" Trygve said, and turned away with his hands in his pock- cts,
 ITygve sat down, cap on his knees. T came home to fight
 The old man, trembling With eagerness, asked him question after question, but the strange boy, who had grown into man since nis father had last seen him, did net even try to answer them all. his mother save him, munching at black bread with slow regular movements of his bony jaws, and gazing, around in silent contempla- ton u the beams and walls and windC,. ,.s he had know since he was a child.
 "In the morning" he said, T want to talk with Gunnar Brogge." "
 But y0a don't know the news, hLs father cried. They've taken Ahn prisoner. He's a hostage
 T see" the boy said, and ate while longer. "1s my bed still here2"
 "Of course. Of course. Wife, get the coat and blanket for Trygve, He wants to go to sleep.
 Trygve stood up. 50 Gunnar Is Q hostage. Are there othersp' Two. Jensen and Brategaard."
 Where are they held2"
 "In the hotel
 T see." The boy stretched. "It's late,' he said. Gan you wake me at severn"
 "Of course. But you have to be careful. l don't know if 1t would be safe for you to appear on the streets. What do you want to do?"
 Get them out"
 On Friday night, three days after the hostages had been arrested, katja stole pistol from soldiers room.
 At about Il that night she walked down the hall, into the captains cubicle, and fired at him twice. sending che bullet into the wall, the other into his right el- bow. The corridor was thrown Into Il turmoil by the shots. Men came tumbling out of their beds anu down the hall, half dressed. When the guard broke In and seized her. sch was standing quietly, looking down at the captain, with the pistol at her side.
 They locked her in the cellar and went to fetch the doctor. He extracted the bullet, bound up the wound, and prescribed quarter of Q grain of morphine out of the army stores. Konig lay propped on the bed. obviously in great pain. He had remained utteIly mov.on- less while the doctor was probing. When Stensgard was done, though, he sent for Lieutenant Book.
 Firing squad in the morning. 7 he said, "as soon as 1t is light enough to sec"
 Katja sat all night on the damp earth of the cellar, at last empty of any feeling except tiredness. She was not sorry. As a matter of fact, everything that had happened seemed as inevitable as all the past she even took 1t for predes- tined that the captain should have lived.
 Upstairs the soldiers tramped about, long after 1t should have been still.
 The hostages were in the next room to her. talking in low voices. no more than 20 feet away in what had used to be . wine cellar.
 She smelled the early morning cold at the windows while 1t was still dark, and suddenly she was afraid, Next door in the wine cellar she heard the men moving about like beasts in their stalls. She started shivering as though her body has become chilled dur inc the night, and all at once felt such self-pity the tears started to her eyes. How brave Of her Il would be not to seem afraid.
 But when the soldiers came down the stairs and she stood up to meet them her very heart grew n,,nab. Her knees shook and she thought for moment she would be- unable to stand. Though 1t was very early, the whole village had heard why stenzaard had been sent for to the nn, and that Konig intended to nakc an example of tho girl py aaving her executed In the public IQuare. So when the trooos Aneo