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reason I hesitated to give my personal data, attitude that Tarstein interpreted erroneously as
product of the fear.

–Don’t be afraid –said Tarstein– the books of the Order could be never found. I can
assure you, Herr von Sübermann, that never has occurred an important filtration about the
details of the Cult or the identity of our members. We have suffered desertions and some minor
betrayal, but always in the superficial levels of the Order, and by people who not possessed a
very precise knowledge of the internal organization.

–Do you receive many aspirants Mr. Tarstein? –I asked.

Konrad Tarstein lifted the sight from the sheet and observed me some large minutes
with curiosity. Finally, as if I’d have noticed a forgetfulness or omission, he took a hand up to
his brow while his countenance went illuminated with a smile.

–The circumspection of Rudolph Hess! –He said thinking aloud–. His eternal and timid
circumspection. I must have supposed that you would not be warned that this interview
doesn’e form part of any regular practice in the Thulegesellschaft.Tell me Kurt von Sübermann,
What information received Rudolph Hess to reach here?

I responded him in a complete form about all what I knew about the Thulegesellschaft:
what Rudolph Hess had said in our conversation in the Chancellery, the night of the
graduation, and the reference of a «contact» in Berlin, Konrad Tarstein, exposed in his letter

that reached to my hands though the Oberführer Papp.

While I was talking a doubt that an unexpected misunderstanding would have occurred
assaulted me, provoked by some mistake committed by me in the interpretation of the
instructions. But as much as reflected I didn’t find any motive that could have produced the
surprise of Tarstein before my question about the reception of other aspirants to the
Thulegesellschaft. Or is that, effectively, never came other aspirants to the Gregorstrasse 239?
Finally, Konrad Tarstein confirmed me this a few minutes later. He approved with a gesture of
his bald head everything what I said and, after that he kept the sheet in a leather briefcase, he
invited me to pass to an interior ambient of the enormous barn.

The hall where we were was connected with the door of the street through a passage
from the small hall. At the right was a stair of fine polished wood and carpeted, which, through
a ninety degree bend, guided to the superior floor and continued in the railing, which was
extended sideways along a passage, perfectly visible from below. Towards the front of the hall
two big doors of huge carved wooden frames opened. Taking the right door we acceded, with
Tarstein, to an open courtyard, surrounded by galleries with small colummns beneath nomarn
archs, in each one of them enormous gates opened. Following the gallery of the left side, we

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