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fabrication of explosives, due to he was reputedly as a prestigious chemist. In more than a
century, my good Arturo, the Siegnagel’s have become more Argentinian that the mate!

When my father did reference to the suffering that he had experienced for remaining far
from his family and the homeland, my mother approached to him and she started to caress his
hair gently while she poured amorous reproaches.

While they were giving affection each other, I felt my cheeks burning; I was like
bewildered, looking at the already released imagination, tracing the most audacious hypothesis.

The affirmation that Belicena Villca did in her letter about the familiar mission of
«working the sugar alchemically», was confirmed in principle by the narration of my father.

Was an indubitable reality that the Von Sübermann’s were sugar producers since
immemorial times but, how did she know?

Poor of me; I not even dreamt that this confirmation about the guess of Belicena was
just the first of many situations that, in the future, would demonstrate me until what point the
absurdity and the reality were blended around her. Ting, Ting, the sound of the triangle, that

the Indian maid was ringing to call for the dinner, freed me from such greys thoughts.

That night I was surprised pleasantly by a plate of delicious humitas; that plate
constitutes, since my childhood, the most valued delicacy; thus indulged and emotively and
gastronomically by my family, I went calm soon and even forgot, for some moments, the
obsessive matter of Belicena Villca.

Chapter III

I considered seriously the admonitions of Belicena, about the dangers implicated in the
quest for her son. At the light of her psychic destruction and subsequent murder, these
admonitions acquired a powerful eloquence which I was not disposed to despise. Hence I
decided to act decisively and cautiously.

I had already obtained all the constabulary possible information about the case and I
almost didn’t keep doubt that the mysterious assassins of Belicena Villca were the Immortals
Bera and Birsha: the totality of the evidences of the crime indicated it. Only beings like Them
could have entered in that cell hermetically sealed and execute her ritually. And the most

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