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due to the success of the maneuver would depend that the black car be not seen by anyone, no
               one  that  could  denounce  it  to  the  police;  and  even  less  the  police,  because  would  have  its
               description.
                      But everything went well. Segundo, with the bandaged fingers, and barfoot, because he
               could  only  wear  one  espadrille,  was  driving  with  skilfully  towards  the  Mountain  Range  of
               Aconquija.  We  crossed  the  River  Tafí  del  Valle,  the  White  River,  and  we  entered  in  a  path
               almost trackless that ascended up to the peak of the Hill La Ovejería. I had to do prowesses
               with the enormous limousine to turn through the sharp bends of the path of cornice. Finally, a
               few  kilometres  before  the  peak,  we  encountered  the  ideal  place:  the  edge  of  an  abyss  of  a
               thousand  meters  or  more  of  profundity.  There  I  parked  the  black  car,  while  Segundo  move
               backwards many meters: the pathway was so narrow that we would have to move hundreds of
               meters backwards, until find an extension that would allow us to bend.
                      The return of Segundo was necessary to prevent a possible collapse of the path, which
               would leave the pick-up isolated and impossibilitated to descend from the Hill. Because I was
               planning to dynamite the Aviant and that was very probable to occur, as it really occurred.
                      I shed the content of a jerrycan of ten liters of gasoline inside the car; I programmed the
               electric detonators with a time of five minutes; and I put a bomb upon the block of the engine,
               another in the interior of the cabin, another in the trunk, and another beneath the chassis.
               Thereupon I closed the bonnet, the doors and the trunk, and I ran towards the pick-up, which
               was waiting for me a hundred meters behind.
                      The  explosion  of  the  four  kilograms  of  trotyl  was  amazing  on  those  mountains
               generators  of  prolonged  echoes.  The  car  would  be  never  found,  because  only  remained  the
               disseminated rests on hundreds of meters of inaccessible precipice. When the explosion ceased
               we  approached  a  little,  and  we  assured  that  it  would  happen  in  that  way,  because  where  I
               parked the car, the path had disappeared and the avalanche of stones had dragged the rest of
               the greatest till the bottom of the throath, burying them forever.
                      I  stayed  ten  days  in  the  Chacra  of  Belicena  Villca,  during  which  I  talked  a  lot  with
               Segundo and we agreed about the future steps.
                      I referred to him the last parts of the Letter of Belicena Villca and I explained him that I
               had some indications about the possible residence of Noyo Villca: all consisted to localize the
               mysterious Order of Tyrodal Knights and its Pontiff, Nimrod de Rosario. Due to a chapter had
               been closed in my life and there would be no turning back, it just remained to continue with the
               adventure and initiate the quest of the Order in the Province of Córdoba. Segundo manifested
               himself decided to accompany me in that mission. Apart of being a Hyperborean Initiate too,
               disciple of Belicena Villca, and possess a logic spiritual interest in the matter, the Indian, who
               reckoned fifty years old, knew Noyo Villca since was a child and he’d do all possible to see him
               again or help him.
                      Thus, we designed, a simple plan destined to resolve the last missing problems to move
               ourselves finally to Córdoba. In the Chacra existed a fortune in Inga gold, that Belicena Villca
               mentioned on her Letter. Segundo showed me the secret hideout, nearby the Menhir, where
               250 kg. of gold ingots subsited: originally, the Indian explained me, the gold constituted the
               faince of the Princess Quilla, because the Ingas didn’t give any monetary value to such metal;
               once in Tucumán, and to prevent possible surprises, the offspring of Lito de Tharsis melted all
               the utensils in the XVII century and occulted the ingots where they still were. The family never

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