[Olefin]

Thirteen

When we arrived back at Olesno we found our guys had also been in a firefight with the Soviets. Two Soviet jeeps were still burning to the north of town and the townspeople were burying the bodies. We arrived at Dobrodzien and took our guys to get treated including the madman we had captured.

The doctor who treated us recognized him after he had been cleaned up as Major Florian Filipowicz, the younger brother of the Markgraf of Silesia. He hadn’t been heard of since the battle of Czestochowa. We had heard of the Markgraf from others in town. We showed the doctor what we had found and he told us that the Madonna needed to go to a true Polish government, not the Markgraf or the government in Krakow. We decided to hold onto it ourselves for the time being. The Berets told us they were leaving soon, with or without us but they agreed to wait till we got back from bringing the Markgraf his brother.

We went thru what we had found with the Madonna and realized that while much of it was junk, there were also some things of great value as well including silver candlesticks, silver and gold coins, a silver tea service, and silver and gold jewelry as well as a true treasure trove - a large bag containing nearly 100 D batteries for our flashlights as well as a set of IR goggles and multiple batteries for it.

It was time for us to move soon - the question was where?