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you that in Germany your luck was already decided. You will never pass through the Gateway of
Shambalah!

Oskar felt ridiculous when he knew that Ernst Schaeffer had condemned him since the
beginning to die in the Tibet, that perhaps just with that finality he permitted him to
participate in the Operation Altwesten¸and that the spionage that he realized for me had been
at the same time supervised by two professional spies of the S.D., participants of the expedition
too. And to make it worse had to know that he unwittingly provoked the death of Gangi.

–I’ve been a fool –He affirmed ashamed–. And think that I dared to advise you about
the manner in which you must act and I suggested you to consult Rudolph Hess. All have made
fun of me!

–Do not torture yourself, Oskar, that then I ignored these facts. And until the last
moment I didn’t know the existence of other spies amongst you. Now we must only think to
avoid that the infamous traitor Schaeffer fulfil his infernal mission. His plans are already
failing: you are alive and that is what matters. You will come with us and you’ll know the end
of the History, you will check the failure of their vain efforts to destroy the New Order –I
assured with conviction.

–Very clear concepts and very admirable your faith, von Sübermann –Intervened von
Grossen returning to the charge–. But he has not told me yet how we are going to find
Schaeffer in this labyrinth of mountains, and with the Winter almost over. How we will search
him? Do you think that is possible to rake such region randomly?

Really, I didn’t have the minor idea that could respond to those questions. Before the
pressure of the Standartenführer, I just reacted to propose:

–We must inquire the kâulikas. It is possible that they know how to localize the ones
who move around territories that resulted completely known to them.

Karl von Grossen took his head between his hands, at comprehending that his supicions
were founded: I didn’t possess the solution to the problem to find Schaeffer. (Mein Gott: if they
failed in that objective would not even possible dreaming to return to- Germany!) Such
operation, Himmler and Heydrich had said to him very clear, it could constitute a journey
without return. The failure was not permitted. If it failed, a kind of hara-kiri or seppuku, the
honourable suicidal ritual of the Japanese samurais had to be realized.

But von Grossen, apart of being tough, was a man of well-known cold blood.
Nonetheless his apprehension, he said:

–Good idea, von Sübermann, we’ll try to put it in practice right now.
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