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–Wait a moment Sir –requested the marine, and entered to the edifice quickly. Another
guard still remained outside.

It seems that everything is fine –said the Green–. I will retire right now, but I’ll stay one
day in Shanghai. You can search me in the port if appears any problem and, if I have left, I will
give you the name of a contact to whom I’ll inform that you are under the protection of the
Green Band. Remember that we can always take you out of China.

Fortunatelly it was not necessary to resort to the Secret Society of the Chinese
underworld. While we were waiting for the Sergeant, von Grossen interrogated the marine. He
informed him that the Consulate was located at the end of the French neighbourhood, almost
next to the stream Oang-Kin-Pan, surrounded by the offices of the few German companies that
commerced with Shanghai. He also said him that in the port were anchored two German ships,
with exist predicted for three and seven days later.

The Sergeant came back accompanied by a diplomatic Secretary.

–Come in please, Gentlemen –he ordered.

The five of us entered to a comfortable waiting room.

–Take sit, you’ll be attended immediately –He asked, and went out through a panel-
door, not without giving a gaze of distrust to Bangi, Srivirya and the dog daiva.

We had to wait one hour, until the Secretary finally returned and led us to the office of
the Consul. He was a diplomatic of career natal from Colony, sent to Shanghai surely to take
adventage from his natal knowledge of the French, and the universitary English. Impeccably
dressed with black suit, not represented more than 40 years old and seemed to be calm.

–I am sorry for the delay, but I had to call to Nanking. You could not imagine in what
manner protested the Ambassador, Baron Heinrich von Baden, for what he considers an
intromission of the R.S.H.A. in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: doesn’t accept excuses for have
not been informed about that secret mission «First Key».

–But is that the operation was not supposed to be developed in China but in the Tibet –
interrupted von Grossen–. We have come here fleeing.

–Don’t worry, Standartenführer: von Baden protests always –the Consul claimed it
smiling–. Let me finish. It was consulted to the military aggregate, who confirmed that names
and grades figure in the encrypted list of the . About which I didn’t know a word, of course,
was of the Operation Fist Key. Therefore, a solicitude of informs has been sent to Germany and
is waiting for an answer. Once the wire of your situation arrives here, it will remain resolved.

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