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The body remained inert again, but it was too late: the sentinels were running towards
the altar uttering exclamations. The Gurkha jumped over the first and stabbed him, but he had
to surrender then before the threat of two dissuasive fusils. Another guard opened the door of
the Temple and soon an angry crowd of duskhas surrounding the intruder. If Gangi would have
reckoned the with the weapons of the kâulika warriors he’d have presented better battle, but as
the role of carrier that he represented in the expedition could only take that knife with him
hidden within his clothings. In that terrible moment, the only thing he desired was that his
brother could flee.

And his desired was accomplished, because the other Gurkha descended with celerity
from the cornice and ingressed in the lake, gaining the shore unseen. Hidden behind a little
wall which followed the contour of the beach, he observed how minutes later Ernst Schaeffer
arrived accompanied by his two more loyal collaborators and six lamas of the Kurkuma Bonnet.
The die of his brother was cast.

In the case of being captured, both were agree to declare that the incursion to the
Temple obeyed to the unique porpuse of the theft: –«They supposed that in the Temple –would
say– would be objects of value that could be subtracted from the custody of duskhas to be
traded then in China or in India, producing thus a favourable change in the life of two poor
sherpas». Wold be executed, of course, for the committed sacrilege and, specially, because
Schaeffer could not leave witnesses of the presence of Oskar Feil in the Temple. But the version
of the theft would remove suspicions and wouldn’t put in danger the task of the German spies.

Now one of the Gurkhas, Bangi, was free but was worthless to shelter hopes about the
luck that his brother woul run: he would be murdered to avoid him to speak and present his
body thus to the rest of the expedition, affirming that he died when he was surprised in
fraganti effectuating a theft in a Temple, not in the one of Ridgen Djapo but other to which
the corpse would be transported.

He was not wrong, because after a while two guards went out carrying the lifeless body
of Gangi, followed by the Germans and the lamas: at the light of the moon, he could see his
neck dissected from ear to ear, having to set his jaw to avoid a scream of sorrow. He consoled
himself thinking that his brother possessed the Kula and that he would dance soon with Shiva
the dance of immortality.

–«Kâly. O Kâly: –he invoked mentally– communicate me your Power of Death, convert
me in a Shindje Bhairava; concede me, O Pavarti, the Honour to revenge the life of my
brother, your loyal servant; help me to recover the dignity of the Kshatrya; transform me in
Kâlybala, the Force to destroy the foes of your Path Kula; put a Trisula in my hands, the

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