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Finally, I referred him the translation that Professor Ramírez did about the legend «ada
aes sidhe draoi mac hwch» and its posterior allusions to the Golem-Druids, what confirmed in
my opinion the veracity, if not of all, of great part of the content of the letter.

Here the charm ended and Uncle Kurt, getting up with a jump, screamed:

–Yes Arturo! The Druids! To them I was expecting the night in which you came! 35 years
later I perceived the unequivocal sign of their presence and I knew that in any moment I´d be
attacked, although I ignored why they had waited so much, why they reappeared now. And
now I know why: because you’re coming to me, keeper of the Greatest Secret!

Was a roar what emerged from my throat at pronouncing these phrases in German,
being answered immediately by two prolonged howls of the dogs, one floor below and out of
the house. I felt amazed because Uncle Kurt had always spoken in Spanish because my domain
in the German idiom is bad as consequence of my parent’s decision to form me as «completely
Argentinian» at the point that they neither spoke this language among themselves.

It didn’t escape to me that, no matter how strong I’d have screamed, the dogs could not
have heard it. The how, they have responded him?

I was looking at my Uncle with «other eyes» to whom till that moment had as a man, as
many others, tortured by the remembrance of the days of the war, but, otherwise, completely
normal.

I was understanding, slowly, that there was something else: Uncle Kurt had a secret
knowledge that weihed enormously on his consciousness, relived now by my narration.

Uncle Kurt was some sixty two years old, but he impressed because seemed to be ten
years younger. Tall till the exaggeration –I calculated 6 feet 3 inches– He was husky, of atletic
complexion and it was appreciated that he maintained himself in form. The hair, which had to
be black, now was grey, cut and very short; cerulean eyes, plenty eyebrows, mouth of fine lips
with a thick moustache and firm chin, completed his description. A detail, perhaps was
constituted by the cicratix that furrowed his left cheek, enhanced by the red of his blushing
cheeks, sign of health for his age.

He liked to wear simple but sportingly clothes and I always saw him using boots of thick
chamois.

In sum, he was an awesome man; more now that he seemed to blaze with anger by his
eyes. He was walking some minutes around the room, with the hands behind, where he had the
letter of Belicena Villca that I just gave him.

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