‘I am getting old,’ Carl thought. ‘When I was young, I could move as fast as Harald. But not now.’ Carl sat down in his seat, very slowly. The bearded man watched him all the time. He pushed Harald with his foot.
‘Search him,’ he said to the girl. ‘Then handcuff him to the door. He will be the next one.’
The girl pulled Harald to the door. She found some handcuffs in his pocket and handcuffed him to the door. Then she searched his other pockets.
In one of his pockets she found a newspaper. She looked at it and saw the photo of Harald and Carl. She stood up slowly and showed it to the bearded man. He looked at the photo, and then looked at Carl carefully and for a long time. Very slowly smiles appeared on the faces of the two hijackers and they began to laugh.
Helen Sandberg stood up to welcome the American and British Ambassadors. The two men were very different. The American Ambassador was a short round man with a loud voice which Helen disliked very much. He often wore open-necked shirts, and he had a very hairy chest. She disliked that too.
