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not strong at all. And it was not for less; the dead had her hands closed over the blankets on
both sides of the body, position where they had to be at the moment of the death and that the
cadaveric rigidity conserved. What indicated that she didn’t defend herself against the
mysterious murderer. He infused such terror that, even looking how he passed the rope around
her neck, and then, feeling it closing and cutting her breathing, she only desperately clung to
the blankets. Such deduction was confirmed by the contemplation of the gesture on her visage:
big and exorbitant eyes; a half-closed mouth, allowing to see the swollen tongue, which seemed
to be broken on an unfinished word, something that may will be never pronounced again,

perchance the mysterious «Pachachutquiy».

I will expose now the second absurd and irrational element which, as it intervened with
the weight of the concrete, removed any hope to obtain a soon and simple solution. I will
explain it better. The incomprehensible fact that the door was locked at the moment of the
crime, first element, could be disregarded establishing the logic hypothesis, even if they were
improbable, that the killer had another key, or the existence of a conspiracy of the medical
staff, etc. After all, such hypothesis was formulated by the police and what they pretended was
to despoil the case from any «mystery» or supernatural illusion. But the ivory colored rope,
second element, was a too tangible object to be ignored.

The second element was the evidence that something sinister and irrational had been
irresistibly installed among us. It was about a rope of one meter long; made of hair, apparently,
human, braided and dyed. But the exceptional, was represented by the two gold medals, one on
each side, turning madly in the two small cones of gold. The medals by themselves constituted
the most absurd of the set: exactly equal in their form to a Star of David, but were not,
however, their engravings and inscriptions. One of them had chiseled a four-leaf clover
wrought in the central hexagon; the other showed a fruit which, undoubtedly, corresponded to
a pomegranate.

I found them similar to some masonic jewels that I saw in an exposition of the Rotary
Club; but the familiarity ended when I remembered and reasoned that the only point of
resemblance between these and them was the Star of David that, as everybody knows, is
formed by two intertwined equilateral triangles. This is a symbol adopted since millenniums
ago by the Hebrew people to identify themselves, as can be verified today seeing it in the flag of
the State of Israel.

The subsequent parts of the medals had inscriptions. But these, farther to clarify
something, increased our confusion because they were written in two different languages. One
phrase, horizontally engraved in the center, was written in Hebrew characters, even though
those signs were not the same on each medal. Surrounding these words was another inscription
in Latin letters, this time identic for both jewels. In that moment no one could clarify to what

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