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–«We are –said the lopas– servants of a rich merchant of Bhutan, who are going to
Sining to exchange his commodity».

They were travelling with the consent of the Dharma Rajah, for whom they had to
comply with some assignments. And they showed to the Tibetan soldiers a letter of the Dharma
Rajah in which appeared the list of objects to be acquired.

That was enough. The lopas gave them a bottle of hard liquor of Bhutanese solja and the
soldiers gave abundant information. «They had to be careful during the journey because a
group of bandits strongly armed that operated in the Region. They attacked recently and
destroyed a village of pacific and Saint Lamas, for what was seen clearly that it was not about
Tibetans, neither religious men, but unwanted strangers. Unless that they were members of the
clandestine sect kâulika, who hated the Buddhist or Hindu lams in general; but they would have
never dared to that level. The survivers duskhas affirmed to have been attacked by the Asuras,
but the soldires were not such credulous and they suspected that the ‘Demons’ would be in
reality occidental bandits, helped by Chinese bullies. If they were right, the evildoers would try
to go back to China by the undefined frontier of the East, which they had proposed to watch
thenceforth».

So they were searching us and, as von Grossen predicted rightly, we could not be at sight
por a long time. The kâulika monks had other news.

Their contacts with members of the Kâula Circle permitted them to know that a
profound underground movement of sympathy for us was articulating in all the spiritual Tibet.

To many admired a lot such group of Initiates who killed the disciples of the Lord of
Shambalah without mercy. It’d be very difficult to return to Bhutan by the same way, but our
Tibetan allies guaranteed us a secure escape through China until the Japanese lines. Japon in

that period was in excellent relations with Germany and in the German consulate of Shanghai a
delegation of the Secret Service worked actively, if we arrived there, we could embark
ourselves without inconvenients. The kâulika community of Sining would help us in that
enterprise.

But it was still premature to talk about the exit of the Tibet. We had to find Schaeffer
before and neutralize his plans.

–Are we in conditions to leave at dawn, von Sübermann? –Karl von Grossen asked
courteously.

–Lawohk, mein Standartenführer! –I replied with security.

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