Word: lydersen
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When two armed bandits walk one evening into the city post office, Kvisthus, one of the clerks left on duty, is killed. Clerk Lydersen. in a panic, throws himself on one of the bandits, is knocked out. Clerk Berger, who has had time to think, when faced with two revolvers thinks some more, hands over his cash box finally. The bandits escape, and Clerk Berger's troubles begin. The police commissioner, the newspaper, everybody accuse him of cowardice. Berger knows that he was no coward, that he had done the only sensible thing, but even his wife grows cold...
...When Lydersen is given a post office promotion over Berger's head, in deep chagrin Berger gets himself transferred to Oslo. After years of desperate loneliness he chums up with a man who turns out to be Rognaas, the only man ever to take his side. At the height of their intense friendship Rognaas confesses that he was one of the bandits; his story absolves Berger of any taint of cowardice. But Berger cannot tell on his friend, even to justify himself to the whole world. Instead, he hits on a plan to justify himself to Lydersen, his chief...
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