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perambulated the distance of a side of the tiling courtyard and we continued thorugh a
transversal storm door which guided us to another courtyard, this one closed with a glass
campane, while the gallery was extended along this courtyard to die in wall at the background.

Before reaching there, we entered in the last of the countless doors that guided to the
transposed galleries. The site where we had arrived, after such labyrinthine excursion, was
really amazing. At closing the door that guided to gallery, I’d say that we were entering into an
apartment, more proper to be in a skyscraper of the Bernaverstasse than there, in the heart of
the decadent mansion of the XVIII century.

–Are you surprised Mr. Kurt? –Konrad Tarstein asked smiling–. I remodelled a wing of
this ancient house to live with some cosiness. Nothing from the other world, rather simple, but
comfortable for whom has already travelled great part of the final path.

…See Kurt, this is the kitchen, modern and well installed; these ones, are the dinner-
room and the living-room. See, these are the bedrooms, there are two because I usually receive
a marriage of old friends as guests. Come over here Kurt; see, this is the main ambience, where
I spent great part of the day and night.

We were before a bedroom of great dimensions, with the four walls covered of shelves
with books. In the centre, under a squared lamp and of regulable height which hanged from the
roof, a table covered in books, some of them opened, others stacked, and many manuscripts,
permitted to guess the place for work or study of Konrad Tarstein.

A little everwhelmed by the particular spectacle that I was witnessing and containing the
desires to go immediately and examine the cover of the books, which evidently were very
ancient, I contained my anxiety and asked:

–Why here? Why to build a house inside of another? It is not more feasible to acquire
another property more comfortable in a more respectable neighbourhood?

–Calm, calm, Kurt, –said Tarstein– this has been done thus by an important reason: We
can’t abandon this property which is very valuable for us. Many importants things have
happened here for Germany and the Humanity. Wherefore, although few are those who visit it
often, we´ve maintained it intact, without changing anything of its ancient and baffling
furniture. Thirty years ago, in 1908, worked here a secret group whose members founded in
1912 the Germaneorden that later would give place to the Thulegesellsachaft and the
N.S.D.A.P. Do you understand now why we must conserve this house?

–Because here all began, –I said with admiration.

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