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publication to compare the similarity, only external, of the medals, to some jewels destined to
rituals of different grades of that organization. At that moment, I wasn't thinking to comply
with such promise, when I made a desperate intent to convince the policeman of the ritual
character of the murder, noticing that they evaded the bundle and searched a rational solution
which, in my opinion, not existed.
Now I was thinking to make use of it as an excuse, to obtain information.
I took a look at the three enormous tomes of the «Masonry Dictionary» in the Library
of the University and I went to the Police Headquarter. In Salta this one is located in an old
colonial edifice next to the town Cabildo, in front of the main public square, adorned and
provincial. I parked the car next to a parking meter, many blocks far away from my destiny and
I walked through the street Belgrano to the center.
When I arrived to the Church Sagrado Corazón which is a building of more than 300
years, I was thinking in the White American youth comparing it to the millenarian Europe;
even though here were no constructions 400 years ago, we shudder of the secular, which we
feel remote and ancient.
I was only missing to transit through the street of La recova with those centenarian
arches, beneath which someone can drink a coffee or read the news or just contemplate the
high hills that surround the Lerma Valley.
I crossed many passages of gloomy aspect, until I found a crowned door by a glazed
placard which barely allowed to read «General Office of Investigations»; beneath this
another placard, made of plastic, announced «Sub-commissary Maidana» «knock before
entering».
Things resulted better than I expected. Meanwhile, Officer Maidana, with wild joy,
examined the Dictionaries, in my hands glided feverously the few papers of the expedient
entitled: «Belicena Villca, intentional homicide».
In this way, accompanied by the insults that the nationalist policeman released when
something that he read caused his fury, I could find out what I wanted.
Many analyses were practiced to the homicidal rope, being this destroyed in part during
the tests. One of the medals «was molten and the material analyzed by Molecular
Spectroscopy», quoting the papers of the «Final Report» and regarding to the «main attached
report, for any discussion regarding to the interpretation of the same». The conclusion was
that, according to the minerals and metals which intervened in the alignment of the gold, this
one would have surely as origin some country of Europe: Spain. With more precision was
mentioned the Zone of Río Tinto in the province of Huelva.
–Knight Kadosch!: What a hell means this Dr.? –Brusquely interrupted my lecture the
Officer Maidana, who was reading «Ritual of the 30°».
–It is a Hebrew word which means «Very Saint». The title would be «Very Holy Knight» –
I said.
The Officer eyes were bloodshot.
–Sergeant Quiroga! –he screamed–.Come to see what masons do!
The sergeant went quickly. Was a husky creole like a breakax, but of evident lack of
sense, who added his voice obediently to the concert of curses of the Officer.
I continued reading the expedient. One piece of the hair was sent to the Laboratory of
Pathological Analysis of the Medicine Faculty. The report, dispatched by the University,

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