Part 4

A few days have passed, and I’ve learned a few things. Firstly, the former guard is an Italian named Arnaldo Dragoni. Since there was nothing to do in the cell, and he surprisingly didn’t hate me for condemning him to prison, he told me how he got to Norway and became a guard. Apparently, a few years ago, he was called to Norway to receive an estate left to him by a deceased aunt, but upon arriving at the estate, he saw that it was being turned into a prison. Arnaldo was then told that he would be compensated for the estate, but only after he worked for a while as a guard at the new prison. Arnaldo, having spent most of his money traveling to Norway, accepted this offer. The longer he worked, however, the more he was told to wait a little longer for the compensation, and he soon realised that it would never come. Already annoyed with the whole situation, he decided to leave it alone and continued to work at the prison.

After hearing his story, I had sympathy for him. Also, I knew that I could trust him, and that we would be able to escape from this prison.