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–You’re talking of 500 km. by train. It is possible that someone could suspect and
submit us to an interrogatory? What will we do then? Because we lack of the German official
documents and further, we are in China clandestinely?

–Oh, Tsing. You must cultivate the virtue of the patience! –condemned Thien-ma, with
ingenuous severity–. I told you that the train leaves in two days: for that date the three
Germans will possess documents that affirm that it treats of three English accredited in China
by the Society of the Nations, with the diplomatic mission to observe the local situation and
present informs that will serve for a future mediation. They will exhibit entry stamps by Hong
Kong and will be written in English and Mandarin: but don’t be afraid. No one that can inquire
you from here to Shanghai knows the enough English to notice that you are Germans! We will
give you, also, diplomatic safe-conducts and a pass for the two Tibetans, in which will figure
that you have contracted them in Sining-Fu.

We will give you money too, the enough Chinese and Japanese money. Everything false,
the papers and the money. All of the better quality. But you will continue alone: a Green will
accompany you to Shanghai. He will make to enter to the train and will accommodate you in a
wagon which under our control. The only occasion in which you could be interrogated would be
at descending in Sian, something very improbable because you will only descend if there are
signs of security, or if the train is stopped on the way, something possible and very common,
but in general all is solved with a generous offering. Either nationalists, or communists, in the
poor China nobody resist to the bribery. Bolsheviks have not been original in this neither,
because they were integrated to the old institution of the bribery through a change of name
that left their dignity safe: they call it «contribution to the Revolution». However, if anyway
they inspect you, you will enforce your documents and your most valuable talent. Are you
agree? On the contrary case I’ll give you more details; but it is convenient for you to trust in the
Green Band, that knows China as nobody.

Karl von Grossen felt ashamed: logistic support with which we would count would be
analogous to the one that a Secret Service gives. However he didn’t unnerve and came back to
the charge with another question:

–I guess that the rest of the route will be likewise coreved, No? Believe me when I say
that we trust in you; my questions obey to a more… professional finality.That is: professional! I
am an officer of the intelligence and I can’t avoid to interrogate. In reality in whom we trust
completely is in the Kâula Circle: nad they have put us in your hands. So we must trust in the
Green Band.

–You do well giving us credit. We’ll not defraud you. And I assure you that our man will
take you safe and sound to Shanghai: he knows the pass trough the mounts Tsing-Ling and the

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