The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-10

planes?
They still have thousands of
tanks"
You're in Norway, not in a
flat country. They can move
tanks only on the roads"
will they climb tanks up the
seven sisters?"
land as for their planes" said
Gunnar, they are only good
against concentrations. You can't
bomb ten men on a hillside UNI
der the trees. II we fight our
own fight, we can make half
their machinery useless. In the
villages and towns, in the val
legs, away from the roads =.
always away from the roads and
open places. You don't win wars
that way, but you'll make hun
dred and fifty thousand men
sick of our kind of war"
You even win wars" said
Hammer. g. in the end"
"Gunnar's plan, as far as it
goes, has logic" said the doc
tor. But there are still few
points to be worked out"
"One, of course, is how the
guns are to be delivered"
THE English will get in touch
| with x,n,, Thara aro hundreds ~
their men all through Norway.
They keep in touch with SUBJ
marines and small ships off
shore"
$50 we must wait"
The doctor pursed his lips i'm
portantly. More details will
have to be worked out when we
know better how we stand. The
main thing is that we are clear
on policy. We are all together.
Is that right"
ia. ia"
Mortensen said, "Then there
is hope. My son will be free.
Did l tell you my Trygve was
in prison? But God bless him.
Even my wife says SO. God bless
him"
Then, later" Gunnar threw
in, I'VE choose men for each
post. The only way is to be as
exact as possible, and then, even
if a few things 60 wrong, that
will not stop us from acting"
Caution is the main thing
right now" said Hammer. you
must learn here in TrollnesS
from the mistakes we made. The
same thing must not happen
twice. No one outside this room
must hear word. Not word"
They began getting up, all
around the dim, cold room. The
air smelled of a night frost. Men
pulled up their coat collars and
rubbed their hands together.
There is one other problem"
said Knut Osterholm. my cou-
sin, Hammer, doesn't know the
hills back here. And it is impos-
sible for him to stay here with
me. The troops may be search
ing for him at any hour. One
of us must lead him up the
ford"
There was long silence. Each
man was thinking of his own
warm house, and what a cold,
dangerous journey that would
be. Then little Kjerlof, who had
argued the pastors case before,
pushed his way through from
behind. II will 60 with him."
he said. II know every path. l
can get him to the Swedish bor-
der in two days"
They turned toward him In
surprise, none of them having
thought of him as one who
would offer, and he Redeemed,
standing in front of the table,
fidgeting with his fingers in his
little beard. 1T is only right"
he stammered loudly. You must
realize that l / am the
only one without a family"
Long after the others had
gone, Gunnar, Solveig, and Gerd
stayed to talk to the doctor. The
buxom woman from the hotel
was, for the first time in her
life, finding a thing she could
enter into with her heart (and
not only her shrewd head), and
she had joined them enthusiast
tically.
On the far side of the room
Knut Osterholm kept p | n g
back and forth with his cousin
and Kjerlof, discussing ways to
evade the patrols on the long
journey eastward.
After the doctor had taken
Hammer aside to dress his
wounds again, they packed, ate
and drank. Then they shook
hands silently all around, and
Hammer and Kjerlof having fas-
tened on their packs and nodded
farewell. slipped out the door.
The little farmer looked very
proud.
Shortly afterward the others
left. Stensgard was going up to
the hotel with Gerd. Every night