The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-05
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They, too, might be watching for
 signals. and if SO, the whole plan
 was betrayed. He stopped in con- Sternation, wondering what to do. This would mean that everything
 was ruined. They might not even
 be safe in their beds If the troops
 saw an English signal. The first
 thing he asked himself was what Trygvc would have done. Gone to investigated, of course.
 He drew the dictionary, the field | glasses, and the light out of his
 pockets and hid them behind a tree. If he were searched, at least they would find no evidence. Then, keeping cover as well as he was able behind the drifts, he crept slowly toward the cottage An owl cried shrilly somewhere in the forest behind him.
 From a distance of some fifty yards, he stopped to see if there was a guard. The dark building, with its low caves half buried 1T the snow, stood out in sharp relief against the glistening white field The whole air had that peculiar. gray. translucent quality of winter nights. Far On the northern horizon behind the hills, he thought he could see the pale. blue weft of the northern lights.
 Minutes passed. He crept nearer When he judged he was close enough he stood up and dashed for the wall under the window And there he crouched again with his heart pounding under his thin ribs and waited. Still no sound, but the wall was warm from the fire on the other side.
 More boldly, he made his wa around to the front of the building and there, propped against the wall, and half buried in the snow, stood two pairs of skis, one, the long. sturdy skis of the German army, the other, the slender black pair he had given Karen Stems gard the summer before.
 The cold ran over him. At first he did rot understand, and wiped his mouth with the back of wet glove. He went closer and exam ined the skis. The same small. pretty shafts he had bought three winters before in Namsos.
 A rage tcok hold of him. If he had been a few years younger he would have battered down the door. Should he alarm the village? Should he now go to Stensgard? He looked up at the sky. It was already we'll past midnight. If he went down. the English would pick this night 10 come of shore. Broken Karen would have to wal: until morning. He went back slowly to the trees where he had cached his things.
 Hour after hour in the bitter cold and silence. he swept the dark horizon with his glass. Not one thing moved. Not even a branch rustled against it's neigh Dor. Far to the left. and almost dark. But now and then he looked in that direction to rest his eyes, and fancied he could still see the cottage window far of, gleaming and small and yellow like a star. He left the plateau at four o'clock and went to bed. But at half past six he was already up again.
 That morning the boats came back to TrollnesS from the south billowing in around the point under full canvas. to the amazement of the entire village. They were man. ned by German crews that swarmed about the streets waiting for a streamer that was coming to pick them up by evening. Its a trick" was the first word that went around. Nobody even bothered to go over to the docks By ten o'clock. the captain, locking tired. and with deep pouches under his eyes, came down into the square, and called a meeting of the fishermen in church There. to the packed and hostile pews. he announced that as an evil dence of good faith on the part of the occupying forces, the boats were being returned 10 their right full owners. Fishing was to be re- stunned. The canning factory would be recpened. One last attempt was going to be made in a peaceful man. ner to re-establish order throughout the entire district.
 He was answered by utter si- lence KaSper Torgersen followed him in the pulpit and hinted rather broadly that 1t had been his influence that had got them this concession. Tt Is not that our friends do not need the boats" he said. but that in all fairness they feel you need them more" He outlined the new regulations that would govern their use and then launched into a peroration in which he told them that by their hostility they were only cutting their own throatS and alternating themselves from the rest of the country. since all Norway was coming to see the virtues of a new order that would guarantee them peace and security for the remain der of their lives.
 What about the fights in Oslo and Trondheim?" somebody caIled Why is the king stu in LondOn7'