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–You don’t tell him, but my brothers and me, always try to steal him candy bottles; –
drooled the lad– there’s no one who do them richer in Santa María. Hi,hi,hi.

Laughed like a sparrow and he was finally, celebrating his mischief, a child.

Uncle Kurt is «confectioner» –I thought delighted. I seemed to me that it’d be fool for
not seen it before but that idea had no sense and I dismissed it.

The child had finished his work and I disposed of the information enough to localize
Uncle Kurt. I paid him generously and he went away to offer his services to other tables.

A wall clock, hanging beneath a little picture with a collection of arrow-heads, showed
the 21 hrs. I paid the dinner and left.

The night was fresh but the sky was covered with clouds and there was not a blow of
wind. I removed the car and I left following the instructions of the bootblack.

As I approached to the street Esquiú, the houses were more and more spread and they
decreased in quality, where not only the pavement ended but also the lights of the streets were
almost non-existent.

I turned through the street Esquiú towards the instinct indicated me where the river
should be and I searched in vain for a sign, a point of reference that would have allowed me to
reckon the numeration.

Cursing inside the idea to visit in the night to Uncle Kurt, I comprehended rapidly that I
circulated through a neighbour formed by small farms of four or five hectares each one.

In the Northeast of Argentina all the farms obey to a same pattern of construction: a
rectangle of land properly wired and a Hall (house of the owner or guard) edified at a short
distance from the entrance of the palisade. Can exist variations or aggregations, but this is the
general «type», that I knew well because our own ranch in Cerrillos is adapted the same scheme.

I knew then about the utility to call from the entrance, due to the house is usually far
from it and I accepted unconsciously the fact that I was going to intern myself in the one of the

properties to advice my arrival.

The car had some five minutes through the sombre street of Esquiú that now gave the
unequivocal sensation of a steep slope. The river should have been near but even if the
powerful high light of four quartz perforated the darkness, I didn’t achieve to distinguish
nothing else beyond twenty metres. I stopped the car and put the hand brake; it was better to
realize an exploration walking.

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