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Chapter X

At the 18 hrs. was realized the painful inhumation. The Siegnagel’s possessed a wide
mausoleum in the local cemetary and there would be depositated the five coffins: the cremation
would not be seen well by the priests of the population. First, the funereal caravan passed
through the church, according to mores, and there was officiated a mass «for the eternal rest of
their Souls», Golem formula, still in rigor. The old priest, friend of my parents, tried to console
me for the inmense loss suffered and insinuated covertly that my remoteness from the Church
could be connected to the actual disgrace. I promised to return to the Dominican masses, as
when I was a kid, and confess myself and take the communion, util the good man remained
satisfied.
A nourished crowd, between curious and sad, was reunited in the necropolis to bid
farewell to the mortal rests. There were, punctually, Maidana and the Commisar of Cerillos.
This last gave me the previsible citation.

–I am sorry to bother you in these moments, Arturo, but will know to understand that
we have a duty to fulfil. Tomorrow you can come to give your declaration in the Commisariat. Is
that at 11:00 hrs: the Judge will be waiting for you, who also want to interrogate you.
I promised to concur with exactitude and the Commisar left satisfied. After the
response, the priest went away too, and behind him the crowd, only remained Uncle Kurt,
Maidana and Me.
We met again in the Property. With extreme caution, Maidana put down four bags of
cloth that contained the SWAT team. He made us a thousand recommendations about the
prudence with which we had to manage such material, and some clarifications of practical
order. All was committed and even more: he added boots, pants, shirts and berets, finally, all
the command dress, painted with tones apt for the hill camouflage.
–I have fulfilled my part of the deal –affirmed–. And I wish you good luck in the
operation. For have dedicated myself in so little time I have not been able to rest, thus I leave
now I can’t stand anymore. Oh: I investigated about the officer Diego Fernández! He is in
activity. Now he is Major G2, and he is destined to the Intelligence Battalion 702, in Buenos
Aires. Tomorrow or after tomorrow I’ll go to talk with him personally!
–Well, Goodbye, Comrades! –He said solemnly–Oh; another thing, that I was forgetting!
When you come back, Dr. Siegnagel, Will you clarify me those two obscure points about the
case of Belicena Villca, those irrational facts that locked the entire investigation? I am reffering
to that matter of the murder inside the cell hermetically locked, and the jewelled rope used in
the constriction. I know that the Ritual crimes exist, and that, those who practice them, are
prescisely members of the Synarchic organizations. But, what importance had to give Ritual
form to the death of poor alienated, or the multiple killer of her family? Is what I can’t
understand.
I looked at him discouraged. How to explain him that the Rituals would be effective if
who realized them were the Magicians of the quality of Bera and Birsha? I had to read the
deception in my countenance because he raised the arms in expression of stop and returned
smiling to his car.

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