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–«Your call with Salta» –Anticipated the operator laconically.

For ten large minutes I heard the tones of the call through the telephone, without any response
in Cerillos. That was absolutely abnormal! Even being the 1:00 AM someone should attend in
much less time: a thousand times I had done similar calls from Salta and they always responded
me in three or four minutes!

«They don’t respond in your number», interrupted the operator. «Do we repeat the call later?» I
didn’t know what to say. I looked askance at my Uncle Kurt and I observed that he was doing an
obvious signal with the keys of the jeep.

–No Ms., I cancel it now. Surely there’s no one there –I suggested with bitterness.

Chapter IV

Fifteen minutes later I was for second time in my life rolling through the street Esquiú:
we were Uncle Kurt, Me and the dogs daivas. «It is precise to take them for the doubts that they
can tend us an ambush», he explained me; «But those Demons are proud and they suppose that
they will never miss a hit; it is possible that they are already in Chang Shambalah; or complying
another of their macabre missions». He remained thougtful for a moment and he added with
lugubrious tone:

–Heavens, Arturo: where do you suppose that they would go then, if as we fear they have
already passed through Cerrillos?

–To Tucumán, to Tafí del Valle, to the Chakra of Belicena Villca –I responded
unhesitatingly.

That probability, and what could have happened in Cerrillos, took us away the desires to
talk during the rest of the journey. Exhausting journey, if it is considered the nocturnal horary,
the bad roads, the fact that we had a day without sleeping, and the recent physical effort caused
by the attack of the Demons.

The chains of the church of Cerrillos called to the mass of the eight when we passed in
front of it. And a hundred meters before arriving to the palisade of the Property we already

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