Snow Treasure
What is a summary of the chapters 22-24 in Snow Treasure
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Ch 22
Mrs. Lunstrom and Peter leave the boat and collect the children. They leave the same way they came, separately. Once over the hill and away from the German camp, Peter helps his mother make pull the children to the Holms' house. Once the children are tucked into bed Fru Holms pulls Peter and his mother aside and tells them that the German spy with the skis went into her barn and looked around. Then, he skied off.
Peter tells everyone what is going on when they return to Riswyk. Everyone takes as much additional load as they can down the mountain. They can only hope that the spy won't figure anything out until it is too late. Peter places his last brick in the hole and starts to build his snowman when he hears something. He slowly turns and there standing next to him is the blue eyed soldier.
Chapter 23
Peter sinks to his knees in terror, but before he can blink Victor has quietly emerged from the forest, pinned the man's arms behind him and put a gag in his mouth. Rolls helps him, and then they slip back into the forest. None of the other children see anything and Peter wants to keep it that way. But, now he knows he has to go and see Victor to find out what to do. Peter sends Helga and the others back to the farmhouse without him. Helga argues with him as she wants to see Victor, too. Peter pulls rank on her and she reluctantly leaves with the others.
Aboard the boat Victor and Rolls have taken the gag off of the man's mouth. The man tells them that he's actually Polish and has been forced to be part of the army. He hates the Nazis and wants Victor and Rolls to take him with them to America. He offers to do anything they want. Victor tells him that there's no way the Americans would let him in without a passport, even if he did believe his outlandish story.
Chapter 24
The captive aboard the boat tells his story. His name is Jan, and he was a student in Poland. One day he was on his way to a boat that would take him to America where he would go to study in a University in Pittsburgh, when two soldiers took him and put him in a basement. They took his ticket and his passport. After two days they let him out and he found that he was in some sort of spy house, full of people wearing all sorts of different clothing. There were whole rooms full of nothing but different types of clothing for disguises.
One of the men there, whom Jan thought was a priest told him that he was actually Gestapo, but he's glad that Jan thought he made a convincing priest. Jan feared that the man would kill him, but instead, he seemed to like speaking with Jan. He gave him a tour of the entire house and explained that Jan's passport and ticket were being used by someone who is now named Jan Lasek. This essentially meant that the real Jan Lasek no longer officially existed.
Because he was a student of languages the spies found him useful and put a German uniform on him. He was sent with a regiment back to Krakow, which was where he was originally from. He learned that his father had been shot, both brothers were also dead, and that his mother and sisters had fled the country. The house he'd grown up in was leveled to the ground. He begs them one last time to take him to America where he has the last remaining family living.