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Third Book

«Quest for Uncle Kurt»

Chapter I

The reader can give free rein to the imagination. He will never attain to envisage the
emotions and the state of total perturbation in which the lecture of the letter of Belicena Villca
plunged me. Was something extremely strange for me; as I went reading it I experienced a
plurality of animic states. Thus I passed from the initial scepticism to the surprise, from this
last to the stupor, then to the curiosity, and successively to a thousand other feelings. Finally, a
primitive and senseless enthusiasm overpowered me and, instead the denying of the letter as
an imposture, logical attitude and perfectly justified, I made the opposite, sealing thus my luck:
I decided to undertake the adventure!

I was just finishing the lecture of the letter and, almost without hesitate; I had taken a
decision, why? I will try to explain it. Until the moment in which I read the letter my life was
empty of ideals. I had a brilliant professional future and what I needed for my comfort; I was
fortunate with women and even though no one obtained to gain my heart that would occur
sooner or later. Everything made foresee that my life would be developed by the lanes that
guide to mundane success. Nevertheless something was failing in this framework because I was
not happy. I possessed peace and material tranquillity but many times the sadness racked me; I

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