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done in years of hard work, now was destroyed: sooner or later, the Dr. Arturo Siegnagel would
be just a remembrance; and then not even that would exist, possibility that exited to my Uncle.

I didn’t want to think in the impression that such measures would cause to Dad and
Mom, Katalina, because my «heart would loosen» and I feared that Uncle Kurt could notice it:

In front of him, I wanted to seem stronger than I was, I wanted to calm him about my
equilibrium and courage. I wanted to be at his height, to the level of his exigencies, because,
almost without advertising it, I had begun to admire Uncle Kurt, to value his great aptitudes, to
appreciate and comprehend him.

Chapter VI

At the next day of the one in which he ended to read the letter, at the 21:30 hrs. Uncle
Kurt settled down in a comfortable hammock chair, next to my bed, and after remaining
pensive some minutes he began to tell me his life.

–Just as it happens to you now, a lot of «strange» coincidences influenced in
determinant manner in the first days of my life. To appreciate with major perspective this
asseveration, I must start the narration many years before my birth, in the precise moment in
which my father, the Baron Reinaldo von Sübermann comes to this world, in the year 1894, in
the city of Cairo, Egypt. In this same year, in Alexandria, at 130 km. from Cairo, borns also,
someone who would be most important than any other person in my life. I am talking about
Rudolph Hess, whose birth occurred in April 26 of 1894.

Even for the distances between both cities, my father and Rudoph Hess soon met each
other, because the parents of Hess sent him to study in the French School of Cairo –the school
in which Dad concurred– since the six to the twelve years. Partners of childhood, united by a
tender friendship that was consildated with the pass of the years.

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