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### Giovanni Grieco

## C'est l'Afrique

C'est l'Afrique

Copyright © 2012 Zerounoundici Edizioni

ISBN: 978-88-6578-160-9

Cover: Image proposed by the author

1

That afternoon of September the institute had that air some dismal and melanconica that it is typical of the periods in which there is no lesson. Nothing students' bawl for the corridors, at the most some graduating silent looking for articles in the library, to interview with the chairman or isolated in the laboratory.

Pious it was in the office, if office that cubicle of three meters could be called for three that you/he/she had been assigned him when you/he/she had served the great leap as the basement to the second floor, and you/he/she was stamping the copies of the topographical papers for the excursion of a week with the students to the Elba - as usual you/he/she was reduced to the last minute - when the telephone rang.

"Ready, Pious? Hi, I am Paul, from the Tricocca." Paul? You/he/she had felt that from some he/she worked in Tricocca, on the other hand the researchers of the CNR they were of the without country, always in an office in some university institute, who knows if it was found better that to Sondrio from where it came, and above all thing wanted who knows. It was him nice yes, but they were known as soon as.

"Hi Paul? How is it going? I have known what time in Tricocca are"

"Everything well, Pious, I/you/they have gone down down from the mountains. you Feel, I don't know if you pu to interest but it seemed me that I dealt yourself with cromite.

Yes, some that dealt him with cromite, as it made Paul to know it was him/it him unknown, but in the environment the voices turn, on the other hand it is so small. Well he/she thought Pious, at least you/he/she is suffered to the firm ground, and he/she sent in press the first set of papers.

"Yes, certain, chrome her they were you the matter of my doctorate and since then continuous to occupy" the printer meanwhile you/he/she had started to sfornare sheets: you/he/she was not clogged, it didn't miss the paper and the computer he/she correctly saw her/it, a favorable combination to be exploited at the most. Pious he/she sent in tail of press the second set of papers and so it lost him the words of Paul.

"Excuse, is excuse, incasinato with the printer, thing you were saying? Who is that you/he/she has come from you?",

Paul patiently taken back.

"I said that they have come from me in the days last two guys. You/they have asked me to make some separations of sand of cromite with liquid dense. Today they have returned, asking me if I could follow them in a more complex job on chrome you to her, but I know well few and then I am trying to separate those londonitis that make me go crazy.

Here that cheat arrives, he/she thought Pious, it will now tell me that therefore you/he/she has recommended him to turn to me. Londoniti, and that beasts are the londonitis? Possible that these cristallografis, mineralogists and raccoglioni never succeed in studying a bastard of mineral any? Here you/he/she had lost another piece of conversation. To avoid figuracce this time didn't excuse him and arrancò trying to reconstruct, on the other hand it was not difficult: you/he/she had guessed us in full, Paul was really saying ".insomma I have suggested him to turn to you and I have given him your telephone number, I hope you are not sorry."

"No, no Paul, has done well, rather thank you for having thought about me."

There was to recover the name of the people, that was lost in the printed second. Really at that time the printer started to ogle - exhausted paper - beh from the as usual the smaller one of the problems, however, had exhausted the paper in the office: it was his turn to recover the key and to go down down in the store.

"Pious? Are you still there?"

Still something was evidently lost.

"Yes, Paul, is here, you have done very well, I still thank you, if they will call me I will see of thing him you/he/she treats, hi then"

It attacked again and it got up puffing, it recovered the key of the store paper and it set out, giving a poisonous glance to the printer. At the end you/he/she had not known neither who were neither from where they came neither, so much less, how many these mysterious individuals were parties to the cromite. Or had Paul perhaps said how much you/they were? So much worse, if they want me they will call, he/she thought, meanwhile it still had to finish stamping the papers, to stamp the introductory issue on the geology in the Elba, to recover the GPS, to take some pouches for the champions, to call Arianna to put on of accord on the schedule of departure, to verify the schedules of the Lead ferries, to finish reading and to send the corrections of the chapters to Marianna 5 and 6. On the staircases crossed Patrician, that apostrophized him immediately "Pious, in the mission that have given me the other day have signed only before, but how many times must tell you him that must also sign behind, otherwise money doesn't give them for you!"

This also missed us, and then because I must sign behind before having completed the mission, but even Indiana Jones signs the application of reimbursement before having ended the mission, and here that it departed him in head the tune of Indiana Jones and some crusade, if you/he/she would be brought him/it behind as a nail in head up to evening, sure as the gold. Useless to protest, it bent the head in front of the bureaucracy and to his/her mysteries and he/she answered.

"It is all right, it is all right, Patrician excuse, after footstep to sign."

The rhythm done go down staircases, tatarata, but which of the films of Indiana Jones had that musichetta? If it detained him to still think of us one minute you/he/she would have become another fixed nail of the afternoon. With a considerable mental effort, and helping himself/herself/itself singing the tune to half voice, he/she succeeded in avoiding the second nail, but it crossed the perplexed look of Giacomo, the graduating of Stephen, that salivates the staircases with caution bringing a scatolino of precious thin sections. It regulates number one: don't disgrace with the students! To go down the staircases to four steps at a time perhaps singing the motive for Indiana Jones exactly was not consistent to the rule. vabbe' they will be also my cabbages because I sing going down the staircases, he/she thought Pious.

A pair of hours later Pious it was intent to adjourn in word the list of the enrolled students to the geologic country. The form of registration, been as usual suspended for months in glass showcase, you/he/she was messed up, full of cancellations, afterthoughts and additions: to do a clean and correct electronic version of it was not undertaken banal. It jumped on the chair to the first ring, it was concentratissimo in to decipher an impossible calligraphy, helped in this by the obsessive repetition of the mantra of Indiana Jones to fil of lips.

"Hello?"

"Ready, does good morning, call me Franco Mieli, could I talk to Professor Geco?"

Impossible, they already called the mysterious cromitofilis.

"Good morning, is me, even if I am not teacher at least up to October, tells me."

The interlocutor continued with professional voice.

"I have received his/her number from Paul Bassi, that has suggested me to turn to her, as experienced of chrome you. We would be interested to open a collaboration with the university on the matter. If you/he/she could give us an appointment we would explain her the details."

The name was not a mystery anymore, it stayed to discover from where they came and how much they were. It started, then, to lean out in the mind of Pious a new question that the incuriosiva: what did you/they want? Definite for an approach of the sustained type / busy, on the other hand with chrome her you/he/she had never succeeded you to deep racimolare of any type, yes certain so many beautiful collaborations, trips in impossible places, some publication of good level but money for the search, never. And with the air that threw that it was the priority number one and, probably, also the number two and three.

"Feels, unfortunately tomorrow morning same birth with the students for a geologic country of a week, if you/he/she can mention me what it serves you, we can eventually feel there to my return."

The voice that answered played some disappointed.

"I will look for of teacher to be brief."

You/he/she must be of a private firm, he/she thought Pious, only their damage of the teacher to whoever in university and, above all, after I have told him that, in September, I am not him/it, but on the other hand the mysteries of the university titles I am and you/they must stay such for the profane. Indiana Jones and the mystery of the teacher to alternate months, beautiful: it needs to invent an appropriate musichetta. I help here that he was again losing the conversation.

".in mineralogy with Daniel Pozzi, with a thesis in Madagascar, from years I work l and for a while we have started a collaboration with a Malagasy mining company for the exploitation and the marketing of cromite, we would need a technical support, of high quality with specific competences.

Madagascar? One graduate of ours? Who? Did the name bounce in the skull of Pious, that was looking for to reconvert its attention from the calligraphy ostrogota of the students to a firm to this point (which? the name was probably lost) that it treated cromite in Madagascar.

"You look, you excuse me if I interrupt her/it, the thing interests a lot me, let's see us when I return from the geologic country", to which Franco took back.

"Impossible, unfortunately among a few days I will return in Madagascar, can we make a jump now?"

Now? But who these am? But what hurry. The calculation of the times departed: for the country in twenty minutes I end, the thesis of Marianna I bring me her to the Elba and.

"It is all right, do I wait you among mezz'ora here, does he/she know the address?"

"Of accord we arrive, we put also there less: we are to 2 km from the institute."

2

The study of Pious it was small: on the right an old closet in metal with the flowing shutters that labored to close him - there was always some scartoffias that it slipped from the batteries piled up inside; to the left a desk, for half occupied by the monitor of the computer, of those beautiful thick of once, waiting for to be able him to allow a flat monitor; a telephone, a cassettiera. All of this, crowded in three meters for three, he/she left as soon as a space they put to the guest to sit between the desk and the closet. If then the guests were two, then they were ginocchiate against every edge. And at that time the guests were really two: Franco, tall, blue eyes, a nose that doesn't forget him and completely bald, he/she sat to the right on the stool; Sergio, slightly lower, clear chestnut hair cut short and a furbino air, sat to the left on the chair.

Franco was speaking, remembering his/her mistakes, from student before and graduating then, to the Section of Mineralogy. You remembered of Pious, then dottorando in mining layers. Pious it looked for in the memory, but he/she didn't remember Franco, even to the epoch it was not of the shaved of it now, certain well his/her chairman knew, Daniel. Definite to bluff "Sì, some that I remember you" with the memoirs from graduating the passage from the her to the you it was practically automatic "Daniel used my office of the epoch, the last great after all to the basement as deposit of boxes of mineral mysterious."

"They were my champions that I sent him from Madagascar" Franco intervened.

The ice was broken, there was to frame the other individual that you/he/she had not said anything after the presentations yet, that furbino air it was not really convincing and then he/she was seen far a mile that was to uneasiness, he/she didn't evidently frequent the university environments, and, spiazzato had probably, remained from such an informal approach with an ex student. You waited for the classical university teacher, arrogant, sussiegoso and pompous, surrounded by teams of portaborse, assistants, laureandi and instead here it is cell, from which you/they sprouted stones anywhere, a hammer on the windowsill of the window and that low air and to the hand of the guy behind the desk.

Franco was explaining that from years you/he/she knew and you/he/she collaborated with Sergio, his/her partner in the AM, particularly active firm in the field of the cromite with important contracts, especially in Madagascar, where you/he/she collaborated with the Morarano Chrome the principal Malagasy mining company.

Decided Sergio that was that the correct moment to take the word.

"Teacher, sees here, I have always believed that the productive activity of busy firms like ours in international field, must not confine to the commercial side. We are interested to develop a virtuous relationship with our commercial partners, of which all can take advantages. We are made account that the mining activity in Madagascar there it strongly hears again some scarce technical and scientific knowledges, for which we would be interested to involve the university in a facing project to study the fittings and the mineral one to improve its productivity. If she could visit the fittings to make an idea of the situation.

Pious he/she listened with air intenta, Indiana Jones him riaffacciò an instant to his/her mind but, with an effort, it chased away again him/it back to quickly make the point of the situation. Everything that teacher that you/they keep on giving him, although you/he/she had said not to be still it for a couple of weeks. But what to do, to start explaining him the virtuosities of the new law that it attributes the title of United Teachers to the researchers now, but only when they make lesson? It was not really the case neither the moment. It was instead the case, perhaps, the firm ground to be suffered to, ché among the so many things that these profane thought of the university, there was also the fact that you/they believed that money was had for going where he/she was wanted.

To this point the line of action was definite, useless to lead the Khan for the threshing floor, better immediately clarifying.

"You look, signor Sirtori, excuses if I interrupt her/it, its proposal seems me very interesting, however it is better that we immediately clarify that here of funds for the search I am not of it."

"You don't worry him" Sergio taken back "obviously all the expenses for this first trip will be to our load, we will appraise together then the situation. Franco has insisted for a long time because I contacted an expert of the university, I was sceptic, but he has always sustained that university is always not that mammuths inefficient that is painted and, above all here to geology, there are great abilities and competences sottoutilizzate."

Possible that opened really a small opening? Pious you/he/she had been taken in contropiede, convinced to receive absurd proposals or, simply proposed, that they foresaw the existence of funds to him accessible. You/he/she had decidedly been prejudiced. As to explain that all of its search to the moment counted on 3.000 European a year, and that therefore also to succeed in going on the ground or to do an analysis in more, did it postpone the purchase of a decent monitor for a long time? Instead these arrived and you/they were prepared to chase true money to use his/her competences in industrial, mining and commercial field. An abyss opened in front of Pious. Mining activity, processes of enrichment of the mineral one, certification of quality of the ended product? But who had made never those things? Yes, it is true, Pious he/she worked on chrome you to her from more than ten years, but you/he/she was always dealt with pure science: genesis of the layers, characters geochimici, fusion of the mantle and who more it has of it more puts of it. Yes, there were the publications on scientific magazines of high-level, but never application. All things that didn't find space anymore and, when you/he/she had decided, following the wave, to open applicationer seams of search, Pious it didn't have certain thought to chrome you to her and even to the mining layers, by now practically closed in Italy. You/he/she had opened then a seam of search in environmental geology, applied dismesse to the mines, of which yes Italy abounded. And here what time they looked out upon him to finance an applied search really in mining layers and really on chrome you to her.

If there was a thing that the university, at least to geology, it taught, it was the flexibility. If a thing you don't know her/it you can always learn her/it. It was so how Pious definite that a proposal of the kind could not be allowed to fall, that that there will be to do then he/she will be seen. However to this point you/he/she would have been really useful to succeed in involving his/her dottoranda Arianna. Arianna worked really on chrome you to her. In the preceding years, thanks to a financing laboriously recovered from Pious, you/he/she had currently worked to Cyprus and in Greece on the origins and the processes of alteration of layers of cromite in mines dams and he was now devoting to the job of laboratory. But the perspectives for the future were practically void.

"It is all right, can Sergio, give us of the you?it " said Pious, on the other hand also Sergio as Franco it was more youth than him, you/they had to have so even both on the trentacinques years and then it stopped calling him/it teacher.

"Gladly, Pious" Sergio responded.

"Put in these terms" taken back Pious "the thing does him very interesting, could I also involve my dottoranda Arianna that is really working on chrome you to her, but which would the times be?"

"Before possible" Sergio responded "the time to organize the trip, a couple of weeks, to the first of October it would be perfect."

In a couple of weeks! I was here this morning to think about the country in the Elba and now I find me to depart for a some lost place of Madagascar in two weeks, he/she thought Pious. Certainly that the geologist to hardly do is annoyed us.

"I think can be done, I must verify the schedule of the lessons, to move even some examination but a couple of weeks in October I think about succeeding in recovering her."

"Very well" the look furbino of Sergio seemed satisfied "then when you return from the Elba we feel there to plan the trip" it got up and after a rapids handshake went out of the office with Franco.

Pious an amazed instant remained, then it leaned out to the door of the office, just in time to see the two that the staircases took toward the ground floor.

3

"Yes, Arianna, tells that they pay us all the expenses of trip and, if the things are all right, then they finance us the study" it said Pious.

You/they had discussed for a long time in the week of it to the Elba and the days passed anymore anymore the proposal of AM it seemed improbable, above all to Arianna, that had not talked to Sergio and Franco. They were in the office of Pious and you/they were looking for on the Georef, the database of all the publications of geology of the world, news on the geology of Madagascar and particularly on the cromite.

"It looks" it said Pious "Madagascar is the tenth world producer of cromite, with 230.000 tons the year."

The publications of the USGS, the American geologic service, was always a good base of departure, they furnished few synthetic data but practically on everything. Arianna was pessimistic of nature, for which to Pious in these situations it touched to play the role of the enthusiastic optimist.

"You/they have not told us balls" it continued "it is true, I didn't have idea that there were Italian firms that treated cromite, for more in center in Milan, but. it looks like one there are and it need us."

The search however it didn't bring to other meaningful results, publications of relief didn't exist on chrome you to her of Madagascar. Best results got from the search on the logistics. October was a good month to visit Madagascar, above all it was not in the season of the rains and, besides, at least on the highland, it was not particularly warm.

"Then? Do we go?" resumptions Pious "the course of models geoambientali begins at the end of the month, the appeals of examination them I can put more or less when I want, all it takes is knowing him/it in advance, other urgent expirations are not of it and the analyses you/they can wait, so much in October the Electronic Microscope is already everything reserved."

"It is all right, do we go" Arianna said "but do you know him/it how it becomes wealthy the cromite? And that figure we do not to know him/it? And then not to forget you that there is to make the vaccinations and the time it tightens."

No, the vaccinations no, this yes that it was a low hit, Pious it hated physicians and hospitals, they provoked only him an epidermal reaction to the thought to have us to that to do, doesn't speak then of punctures, a fear that had never overcome since when it was child and the syringe you/he/she was sterilized making her/it boil for a long time. The image of that tool of torture that slowly boiled waiting for to slip in its backside still made him turn the head. With the forehead already of sweat it looked for news in google on the essential vaccinations for Madagascar. Any obligatory vaccination, marvelous! But different strongly you recommend, ouch. Yellow fever, hepatitis To and B and prophylaxis antimalarica. If I am not obbligatorie they won't be even essential, he/she thought Pious. In these situations it extended to autogiustificarsi to every cost and to hide the head under the sand, hoping that you/he/she would have been all right.

"It looks, any obligatory vaccination" it said to Arianna, which replied "Already, however a lot of recommend. It looks, it allows to do to me, I inquire me, to Milan there is the center tropical illnesses, and then I make you know."

"Yes, yes, it is all right" it said Pious, the main point was to defer, to take time and to hope that the thing fell in the oblivion, meanwhile for now the discourse was closed.

The office was spacious, an open space with four great desks and a smaller, and very bright, a continuous glass door leaned out on the avenue planted with trees in the zone Corso Buenos Aires. It was not the center, but not even the Bovisa, in short from that point of view the AM discreetly defended him. Pious and Arianna had come for deciding together with Sergio - Franco in the meantime had returned in Madagascar - the dates of the trip and to know more something of it on the job to do down there.

Sergio showed the press of a chart done in excel with dates, names and place, enough incomprehensible. Its name appeared together with that of Arianna in various parts, in partnership to Malagasy names, presumably in place, from the exotic taste rather. Fiercely showing the chart Sergio started.

"Then, arrival to Antananarivo 20, a few days to take the contacts with the executives of the Morarano Chrome, then we will depart for the mine, it covers to Moramanga and, in a dozen of times, we should be to Brieville. Then everything will depend from how much time we will be there." While Sergio explained the plan of trip, Pious it kept on observing the chart without understanding its key, until been decided to ask.

"But excuse, how much will we be to go down?" Sergio, some surprised by the question, responded.

"Four, as I had told you: me, Silvana, that you have not known yet, Arianna and you"

"Yes?" resumptions Pious "then this chart I don't understand her/it, does it look here and also here, who is this Diego and where should you/he/she go? Is it one that alive there?"

Sergio bursted in a laughter that initially irritated Pious.

"But no Diego is Diego Suarez, the most beautiful city in Madagascar, where I must go to systematize some agricultural matters. It is in the north."

Diego is Diego Suarez, the chart now purchased a sense, Pious it appealed to its legendary geographical knowledges, that constituted the curiosity of friends and acquaintances and the terror of the students to the examinations. Diego Suarez, the old colonial name of Antsiranana. In Madagascar, as in many other African countries, you/he/she was tried to also shake of back the linguistic rests brought by the colonizers, for which at least the principal cities, that a name had given by the oppressors, you/they had modified him resorting to the local language. The results were more appreciable, above all in those cities founded by the colonizers and without, therefore, one native local name of theirs, of certain an enormous confusion was created and naturally both the names kept on being used in contexts and different situations. To the capital of Madagascar you/he/she had not gone so bad, Tananarive had become Antananarivo, the wisecrack making entirely obsolete that Pious he/she remembered, of Oreste Lionello, and that you/he/she had perhaps been his/her first notion on Madagascar: do you know qual it is the most inhospitable city of the world with the travellers? Ta nan arrive. The second city, Tamatave, had become Toamasina, Diego Suarez, Antsiranana and Fort Dauphin Taolagnaro.

As usual Pious you/he/she was lost in his/her thoughts, certain you/he/she had to have a notable ability to maintain an absorbed and careful air while its thoughts wandered, if the interlocutors rarely realized. Sergio was now saying "Madagascar is a world to itself, it is Africa but it is not Africa, it is an enough great island to be self-sufficient and enough out of the routs commercial and poor not to have suffered so many invasions, the population is half Asian and, in short it is not Africa of Zambia, where a lot of times have been."

Africa, a success of Enzo Avallone, the tune automatically departed and few missed us how Pious it started to ritmarlo with the hands or beating the feet: on the other hand from little boy he is liked that song as, you/he/she had made him/it dream. No, no, enough, it is time to watch out, Sergio was throwing out of a drawer of the photos of great format.

"These are some photos of the plant that we have made Franco and I during the last visit. Practically they grind the cromite, the coarsest portion they send her/it to a separator to liquid dense, while the sand of cromite is sent enrichment to the plant of tables to shake. They are also there of the spiral, here you see the dispatchers. In practice the mix goes to the spiral, but partly you/he/she is recycled by a second series of tables to shake that I/you/they am after all here, do you see? The assembled one went to a plant of defosforazione before, built by the Japanese, that however now it is in disuse. They also have a magnetic separator, but I don't know how much uses him/it. However the plant works badly and the ended product could certainly be best: if you succeed in suggesting the opportune changes we earn there all."

That pull had been really notable, Pious you/he/she had understood us few or nothing. The difficulty was to understand how much this was due to its ignorance and as for the confused and incomprehensible way according to which Sergio had explained the operation of the plant. Who knows how much himself knew? Surely the two things went to braccetto and whole you/they had provoked that sense of dizziness how Pious it tried in front of those photos of incomprehensible machineries, put in an order that had to also have one hidden logic of his, but to the moment decidedly dark, at least to the eyes of Pious. In few instants Pious it recapitulated his/her scarce knowledges: tables to shake, well, at least theoretically he/she knew what they were, of the vibrating tables endowed with grooves, in degree to separate in a sand the heavy components from those light, or better those denser from those less dense; certainly however you/he/she had never seen one of it in action. Spiral, we went worse here here decidedly, apart a contraceptive method by now obsolete, the word told him little. What will you/they be us to make some spiral in a mine? Dispatcher, beh this was easy, something that serves to divide, probably, in the specific case, the sand of cromite in equal and homogeneous parts. As it worked it was another pair of sleeves. The magnetic separator among all the quoted machineries was the easiest, they had in the laboratory one of it, practically a metallic roll magnetized that the magnetic grains it holds back and he/she lets those go not magnetic. The defosforatore? Worse that andar at night: apart unlikely images of pyrotechnic fires it didn't come him to void mind.

"Perfect, Sergio, seems me everything clear, when we will be on the place we will see whether to organize the job" after all they were very simple machineries. As all the mechanical things there would have been time to understand its operation and to plan a strategy of intervention, meanwhile among few days he departed for Africa heart of salt of Africa. Here that Avallone had become of that day the tormentone. When Pious it came to do inside of itself so bleak rhymes the situation it was serious, it meant that, as it often happened him, perhaps for excess of trust, you/he/she was practically embarking himself/herself/itself in an arduous enterprise to the blind one, confiding in his/her flexibility and ability to learn to the quick one and, above all, following the two witticisms that had characterized his/her working life in department till now: 'never to say no if there are the money' and 'you hold the feet in more shoes that you are able.'

Before leaving, Pious definite to try the bet and to throw out the most scabrous matter.

"Sergio" it said "but for the vaccinations as it works? Are they really necessary? There is little time."

"It looks, Pious" Sergio responded "the only really useful is the prophylaxis antimalarica, but you/he/she must be started one month before departing and then it is not a real vaccine, it is only a prophylaxis and you/he/she can make you be really badly, besides not guaranteeing you to the one hundred percent. I never do her/it. Then you will be always on the highland and the malaria it is on the coast."

This was music for the ears of Pious, it went out of the center of the AM that felt him light as a feather, Arianna he/she thought us about to bring him/it with the feet for earth

"That is stupid, I to the institute for the tropical illnesses go there the same and you would do better to also come you."

Pious, that had received just on a silver dish the supreme justification not to see physicians, it found again him to unsheathe the free and unjustified wickedness that, in cases as this, it countersigned him/it.

"You do what seems you, provided that you make yourself your cazzis and you allow me to lose", they didn't speak for the whole thin journey anymore to Department.

In the preceding days the departure, Pious you/he/she was preset to start to fill his/her gaps on the processes of enrichment of the cromite but, as every time that had abandoned the ship of the Department in period of lessons, the appointments started to cross him: examinations to be anticipated, registers to be compiled, laureandi that, after having disappeared for months, just now they had extreme need of Pious, relationships to be written, articles to be seen again, reunions, errands and everything how much it concerned the daily life of an university department.

One day Arianna introduced him with the tickets that you/he/she had gone to recover from AM.

"Here is your ticket, Pious, we will fly with Air France street Paris, a hour and half up to Paris and then ten hours from Paris to Antananarivo, fused schedule more one, will arrive the morning of Wednesday."

"Wednesday morning!?" said Pious amazed "but then depart Tuesday!"

"Beh yes, the reasoning doesn't make a wrinkle and, in fact, the flight for Paris is Tuesday to the 17.40" Arianna said with light sarcasm.

"But was not you/he/she said Thursday?" resumptions Pious.

"Yes" Arianna said "but it seems that Thursday was full, Friday we have the meeting with the vertexes of Morarano and Wednesday there is not the flight. At least so the secretary of AM has told me."

It was Friday, Pious he/she saw in front of itself a week end to greet friends and relatives and at the same time to pack the suitcases and, above all, a terrible last day of job Monday. Meanwhile you/he/she had to move to Monday all the appointments that you/he/she had accumulated for Tuesday and Wednesday, you/he/she would have been hard. Sooner or later you/he/she would have told him Sergio, that the flights don't move him to the last minute.

4

The airplane landed in a splendid morning of sun on a new footstep and, apparently, well estate. Pious and Ariannas went down from the airplane hesitant, waiting for the first touches of Africa not Africa that you/they would have caught them. In first place, there was no mean to transport the passengers: from the airplane to the terminal him afoot a hostess went following. The same terminal was rather small and kept ache, the wood predominated, which also made its beautiful figure. Just inside, an endless tail for the purchase of the seen one and the control of the passports: the first impact with the Malagasy disorganization. Sergio thought well about exploiting the occasion to show off his/her haughtiness of white full of money in a poor Country. It quietly drew near to a police officer, it confabulated an instant with him and then it passed him some banknote. The police officer departed to rocket and, making himself/herself/itself shield of the uniform, you/he/she split the crowd in attended in front of the baracchino that the visas sold. Later even one minute returned from Sergio and delivered him the visas, then it drove the gruppetto of four whites I pour the control passports and it made them pass for first. In less than ten minutes they were beyond all the controls. It was alone to that point that Sergio turned him to Pious.

"Africa is so and Madagascar in this is Africa: corruption anywhere, to all the levels. If you don't adjust yourself you are cut out; and then it is really this way that for theirs are waited that behave you, from vasà, as they call them the white man. If don't make the white they take advantage and they instantly pass from the reverence to the contempt. You/he/she can be dangerous straight."

Pious he/she listened and, as soon as Sergio proceeded in his/her justification, the irritation grew, as the glances in tralice with Sergio and the looks of agreement with Arianna. On the other hand is Pious that Arianna was disembarked in Africa with the whole baggage of common places and preventions of the European that there has not been never or, at the most you/he/she has seen Africa pretended of the organized tours and of the bathing resorts. They were full of good feelings egualitari and politically correct and this first meeting with a different reality you/he/she had not notched their certainties yet: Sergio was the bastard white exploiter and the Malagasy ones the victims.

It was distracted from his/her equitable thoughts and solidali from Franco that it came them meeting to the exit. Another seemed: dressed in suits kaki and colonial cappellaccio it stirred from sure and definite master. You/he/she was accompanied by two Malagasy that chased to badly words the crowd of laborers that you/they were hurled on their baggages and if they loaded them on, showing notable dowries of acrobatics, over that firm muscles. The awkward attempt of Pious to bring his/her suitcase was ironically slashed by Franco.

"Yes, all the whites it is normal that the first time they arrive they do so, but you will accustom soon yourself, I have fourteen Malagasy that work for me and by now I have lost the habit to make anything, also when I change me the underpants, those dirty I let her fall for earth, so much I have three maids. Certainly in Italy I would never be been able me to allow a style of life as this, but here it is different, here life is worth few and the only thing that it abounds it is almost the manpower to cost zero. But the auto, jumps here on that Michel brings us to your hotel, I have booked you the Den Plaza, next to the old station, rigorously only for white, you will see that you won't repent of it."

Accipicchia one worse of the other, straight this starts making the nineteenth-century rajà and it allows him to come to tell us as we must behave us. Pious it was not alone irritated, you/he/she was scandalized and offended. It tried a strong sense of shame, besides, toward the Malagasy ones that you/they saw him/it accompany him to individuals of such kind. A glance to Arianna all it took is for understanding that it shared in full its thoughts and its emotions.

The forty minutes of the journey from the airport in the hotel were as a fist in the stomach, while from the car windows they unthread the almost unreal images of real realities, that however in television they make another effect. The road crossed the notorious bidonvilles of Antananarivo: huts and plates, dirty anywhere, mud and mud and in this mud, children that play, cows become thin looking for food, women that wash cloths or, simply, people thrown at random for earth. To Pious the images of Gastone Moschin came to mind that it crosses in auto the roads of Calcutta in what was one of its films cult: A Japanese wife.

To the hotel a further shock attended the two inexperienced persons. The auto stopped him to few meters from the entry. Two Malagasy watches of the hotel immediately hurled him on a shouting crowd that tried to surround the auto, they got further him making to rotate with skill the club in endowment and arranging some well contemplated hit to the most insistent. Was it perhaps so that the stars of the cinema were felt crossing the gangway of Cannes? It was not reasonable, in Pious a shame that made him hold the low head prevailed.

The four crossed the few meters up to the entry among two wings of crowd that, timorous, it didn't draw near, but from far he/she asked, it howled, it begged, showing the most variegated objects in sale: embroideries, bonnets, souvenir launches, but also rims for auto, cages with tropical birds, spar for the TV and who more it has of it more puts of it.

Overcome the threshold him it entered another world, that of the whites. Atmosphere of a hotel of luxury, guests white and personal Malagasy. Franco dispatched for them the bureaucratic formalities and then you/he/she delivered to Pious a so big package of banknotes that Pious he didn't know whether to put her.

"They are for the small daily expenses, they seem so many money but remembered that an European is worth 2500 aryaries and that the banknote of bigger cut in circulation is that from 5000 aryaries for which it touches to turn with the pockets full of money. The coins I believe that not even you will ever see her, they are not worth anything."

No! This was a problem for an impassioned collector of coins which was Pious. The matter leaned out for an instant to its mind but it disappeared immediately overpowered by the strange feelings of that arrival in Malagasy earth.

"Ah, a last thing" Franco taken back "it is better for now that averts to go out afoot, you would be attacked by solicitors of every sort and, if you have not accustomed, it is really a disagreeable thing. You allow to lose, I bring around you later." Franco greeted and set out toward the exit.

The four took each his/her own key and they went him to rest in the respective rooms.

A couple of hours later Pious and Ariannas found again him in the hall, anybody trace of Sergio and Silvana, and Franco would have passed only in the afternoon. They decided to try the fate and to go out, at least on the threshold, to appraise the situation. Out a lot of people were seen to walk for road but nobody seemed to watch out for the hotel. They went out with circumspection, reassured by the presence of the watch with the club. Certainly it was not very equitable and solidale to cover the shoulders with a police officer put for batoning mendici and solicitors there, thought Pious, but tant'è, tries to see that it happens.

A virtual semicircle of the ray of about ten meters centered on the door, this is how much it guaranteed the watch. In man that a shouting crowd to the limit of the circle is not said he assembled. Not as soon as someone, in unquestionable opinion of the watch, it broke the perfect semicircolarità of it trying to draw near, you/he/she was attacked in three phases.

For first: howl her.

Then, the watch that drew near him making to circle the club.

The third phase, fortunately solo supposed because it was not verified, it was obviously batons her/it well arranged. Of sure, if it had happened, Pious and Arianna would immediately have concealed, or worse you/they would have attacked the watch with catastrophic results.

Arianna, having seen some beautiful tablecloths embroidered to hand, it didn't withstand his/her female instinct and it drew near to the limit of the circle, followed by the curses of Pious "but where cazzo you go, with the whole work that I have done for having a place of doctorate for you, you won't want to put again us the pens in such a stupid way."

Everything useless, Arianna was already treating in an unlikely French - neither her neither Pious you/they had ever studied him/it, even if Pious it sustained to have French in the blood and to be able him/it therefore to speak at sight - with a barefoot lady, with a beautiful vestitino of red and green end, laundry and sfrangiato in more points, with in head a soldier Basque.

After about ten minutes of intense negotiations it returned toward Pious showing off a pair of colored really delicious tovagliette without having idea than you/he/she had paid her. It resulted then that it dealt with around 1,20 European and that the long negotiation had concerned 20 cents in more or in less. Country that negotiations that you find go, thought Pious.

The success of the lady in green and red encouraged the crowd that did him more numerous and shouting. In that while, the two was reached by Sergio that it went out to smoke a cigarette.

"You know, it is the habit" it said to Pious "here you/he/she can naturally be smoked where he/she is wanted, but I am so gotten used to go out for smoking.

Pious it looked around him looking for the railway station close to which you/he/she had to rise the hotel. Not seeing her/it, churches to Sergio.

"It is this" Sergio said, pointing out a beautiful building semidiroccato in style beautiful époque inside a gate, really of side in the hotel.

"But the trains where I/you/they am? And the platforms? I see only a big screen in front of the entrance" it replied Pious, while with the tail of the eye you/he/she had seen that Arianna had returned to the position treating this time of the figurines in mahogany.

"Note, the screen is the only working thing" Sergio responded "the station as the whole railway line, were built by the French of the years '60 and today it is in downfall as all the things passed by French in the hands of the Malagasy ones. The station is used as cinema to the open one today, they sometimes project some films on that grungy screen. In as for the platforms, you/they have stolen them and sold as I fit with iron old."

Pious it was spiazzato, it felt a motion of repulsion toward the words of Sergio that played him racist. However evidence was in front of its eyes: a whole railway line, the most important of the Country, perhaps the only one, with the station of the capital sent in downfall to that way. Who had been? Why? Sergio started over speaking.

"Here we are to the center of the low city, that built by French, this astute avenue that departs from the station had been thought as a boulevard of style Paris. It looks as you/he/she is reduced now. It is the avenue of the revolution, because it is the place where it goes down in plaza the people to cause trouble every time that there is a revolt or a coup d'état, or very often. He/she thinks that the actual president has taken the power with a coup d'état supported by the Americans dethroning his/her predecessor supported by French. There has been some hundred corpses and then the old president you/he/she has escaped and all have changed flag. In this Madagascar is not as Africa, here the revolts and the coup d'état resolve him with some corpse that escapes us for mistake, not with the slaughters of black Africa. The new president is the king of the yogurts, you/he/she has started so and, today you/he/she is the master of the greatest chain of distribution of, alimentary of the Country. The presidential building is above in the tall part, even later we make us a turn."

Meanwhile Arianna had concluded the second purchase, for which the three reentered for going to lunch in the restaurant of the hotel, that offered a rich sideboard to the European, embellished by falls of tropical fruits.

Franco came to pick them with a pick up grey Toyota metallizzato up, covered from adhesive of the AM, at four o'clock in the afternoon. To how much it seemed a delay of different times it was usual in Madagascar, so much was worth it immediately stuffed the callus.

In the brief journey of ten minutes up to the tall city, Pious it had the opportunity to learn another pair of useful cosette on as the vasàs they behaved in Madagascar. They stopped near a gas pump and, you/they immediately were surrounded by dirty children and suits of rags. Pious it lengthened a banknote of small cut to the smallest and dirtiest child. Instantly the crowd of children started to thicken: before ten, then winds, then who knows how much, the cram became soon unbearable, his/her children pushed and they howled, Pious and Arianna was tossed here and there. Franco intervened with Michel, his/her Malagasy general servant, that, to shoves, the nearest children chased and they quickly made to climb in auto the two victims.

"Boys" Franco started "you/he/she is all right that are new but you/he/she is better that you immediately learn: you never make the alms for road if you don't want to end, in the best of the cases, pushed to earth by a throng of victims and stolen of everything. If really you care, I make you now see as he does."

Really at that time the auto was firm to a rotunda, with an I manipulate of solicitors that it knocked to the car windows. Just the road was free, Franco quickly opened the car window, you/he/she put at random some banknote in some of the stretched out hands and he divided to rocket quickly closing the car window. "Here, this is the only sure way" Franco taken back "otherwise dates the money to Michel, or to the driver of turn, that will think of us him; the Malagasy ones know whether to treat their fellow citizens."

In the city tall Franco, without never going down from the auto, it changed of the European ones, he/she bought a stick of cigarettes from a little boy and an unlikely cow hat boy, that immediately gave to Arianna, from a toothless lame old man totally. Here as they shop the whites to Antananarivo, he/she ascertained Pious.

Franco passed with the auto in front of the presidential building, garrisoned by an I manipulate of watches from the air svaccata, but armed with machine gun and rifles that rather made immediately Pious nervous. In a hold away, near the building, Franco made to stop the auto submitting her/it to one of the innumerable unauthorized parcheggiatoris. Beh, this at least I have already seen him to Naples a lot of times, he/she thought Pious without becoming himself/herself/themselves account that his/her equitable attitude and solidale you/he/she was decidedly having the worse.

"You don't fear that steals her/it to you, Franco?"

"Imagine" Franco answered "if only you/he/she tried us you/he/she would be worse for him."

While Pious he/she wondered what pits the meaning of that dark and anxious sentence, quickly entered the hotel Colbert, dribbling the solicitors.

The hotel Colbert was a hotel of other times, luxurious, with a limited clientele to white and few extremely rich Africans. You/he/she was furnished with taste, furniture of epoch in wood, many mirrors, carpets of merit and a pair of corridors of expensive shops decidedly. Franco explained that you/he/she had been being the good hotel for the times of the colony, where they lodged all the personalities in visit. Even if today you/he/she had been old from the new Hilton and perhaps also in the Den Plaza, the most classical place of meeting of the whites of Tanà remained, as familiarly you/he/she was called the capital from who lived us. Another white island in a sea of color. Pious you/he/she had started to understand as the life of the whites it worked to Tanà. The city offered a limited and well selected number of places where the whites could sleep, to eat, to meet, to drink, to smoke, in short to be between them, to the limit with some exception of the local rich elite, without being disturbed only also by the vision of the poverty that surrounded them. The transfer from a place to the other one happened as in apnea, always in auto.

Despite the luxury, the Colbert offered online only a computer, firmly occupied from white desirous to communicate with house. One hundred meters away from the Colbert there was however the central mail. After a brief consultation, and considered that were in the heart of the tall city, the only zone that entertained some shops to the European and, straight, a bookstore, Pious and Ariannas decided to try one gotten, while Franco and Sergio were busy in a conversation with of their acquaintances met in the hall.

Bad choice: the area of side to the entrance of the mail was obviously privileged by beggars of every kind, among which variedly detached a conspicuous number of lepers cripples. Those envoys worse nothing didn't ask even, they lay for earth in a sort of numbness that could be sleep, agony and, perhaps, also death.

To the mail naturally they were to the center of the looks of everybody, they started to feel as of the monkeys in the cage to the zoo. The cost for a connected computer to internet was derisive straight, as however the connection was also ephemeral and almost imperceptible the speed of the same one, once connected. Pious well soon he stewed and it gave up giving away news of itself to the world internet. They decided to make other winds meters and to reach the bookstore, where Pious it was supplied of papers of Madagascar in staircase 1:500.000 and he/she bought a thin libriccino written by an Italian missionary, from the promising title 'I Speak Malagasy'; of dictionaries Italian-Malagasy not even the shade, the French influence in that field was still dominant, almost all the books and dictionaries were in French or from French.

The first day was closed with a supper in one of the seven or eight restaurants for white of the capital. Once more clientele exclusively white and Pious, after the brief but intense immersions in the local reality, it discovered him with horror to breathe a sigh of relief just entered. Not even twenty-four hours and half at least of its certainties had collapsed, while the other half already started to stagger. To does her/it some poverty in the world, it ordered a delicious and abundant portion of fillet of zebu to the green pepper, accompanied by a discreet South African wine. To end a delicious dessert manufactured with the marvelous cocoa and the delicious vanilla Malagasy.

That evening Pious it returned in his/her room I get tired and rather upset, and the true job still had to start, even if the concept of time in Madagascar followed proper laws, for which he/she was not known well never where, as and, above all, when you/he/she would be done something. For now he/she was contemplated with pleasure of a meeting with the vertexes of the Morarano Chrome that, gives for some Friday when they were in Italy, it now seemed to have become a mythical event that could be verified, perhaps, in a few times suspended beyond the time. With these thoughts that turned him in the Pious brain it fell asleep in bed without need of the usual reading of some page. Titian Terzani could also wait: after all to read is a thing to live another.

5

The morning later, Sergio had established a technical reunion, so you/he/she had called her, without noticing the raising of eyebrows of Pious and the ironic and doubtful look of Arianna.

They found again all and four in a saletta of the hotel, where they waited for Franco for almost a hour. When it arrived, Sergio apostrophized him/it with efficient and very European air.

"Bushels becoming really a Malagasy, by now the odor of the money even does you more to lift the chiappes for time and to arrive on time."

Franco didn't give weight to the reproach unloading the whole guilt on the driver.

"Dear Pious, we are moving our pedines" Sergio taken back "and, at the most Friday, we must meet here the executives of the Morarano Chrome in their center to Antananarivo. This morning I have felt Sam Fox, the commercial manager, and I have told him to let some geologist that can tell you something of the mine to come. The fittings we will see there then them, they have a good engineer that directs the plant to Brieville."

"Yes, it is all right" it interrupted Pious "but I don't understand qual it is our role."

"In first place" Sergio taken back "to make you see. Yours think that the whites are a kind of magicians, that you/they succeed in making to work the things and considering that only the fact that there is some whites that turn for the mine reassures them and makes to feel important, it will be easier for us to get the contract for the sand of cromite. I would want to tighten the accord with Mozamaranado, the general manager, before dividing. If then results to improve the product, so much better, now the quality is to the least limit for the market and if it subsequently worsens you/they must close everything. He/she thinks that to Brieville they live more than 3000 people, all on the shoulders of the mine there are the electric light, houses in masonry, a small hospital and, straight, the TV. If they close, it is the end of everything this."

In short Sergio mixed, with perfect ethical-economic syncretism, personal affairs, matters techniques and ethical problems. Pious it was said that perhaps the furbino air perhaps hid a. furbino. Above all he is not was not liked at all the idea that Arianna and he could be alone of the kinds of white puppets that veder was important to turn for the mine. And then, without TV to Brieville you/they would have been better surely. The hospital, however? Bah, among a few days you/he/she would have seen all with his/her eyes, you/he/she could wait.

Did Arianna intervene "Excuse, Sergio, but as we do to improve the product, it is not that I am bruscolini, it needs to make an accurate sampling, a lot of analyses. but that type of cromite this? Podiforme or stratiforme? And the ganga thing is?".

Sergio, that probably hoped to have struck in the sign with the history of Brieville and not to have to give further explanations, was turned uneasy on the chair.

"These are matters that you must see you, you are you the experts, we have called on purpose you, however it is all right so, more you fill them with incomprehensible paroloni and more they will convince him that you are of the true experts."

"And that! Are we perhaps of the experts for pretense?Pious " sbottò.

"But I didn't want to say this" Sergio still taken back, slightly lifting the tone of the voice, but you/he/she was interrupted by Franco that, in the triplex quality of geologist, shareholder of the AM and Malagasy of adoption, he/she thought about being the proper person for to mediate the situation.

"Boys, try to understand the situation, we need to close an important contract with the Morarano Chrome for the supply of sand of cromite. What do we have in more than the other competitors? In more we want to furnish a qualified technical consultation to our expenses, you note, kept account that the material is of quality to the limit of the saleable one and that, it seems, but we don't know well why, you/he/she could subsequently worsen in a next future, at least so Sam says. Pious, you keep in mind that these chrome I/you/they have not scientifically been studied never you, we give us of it the opportunity, the everything to our expenses. You however, if there is to make some scene with the Malagasy ones, give us rope."

To this Pious point he/she didn't know whether to think. An instant a fool felt him exploited by two furbonis to do free a job, the following instant you/he/she seemed him to have for the hands the occasion that waited for a long time: to do an application job, useful and totally financed, for more from private.

Done decide in this case of Massimo to adopt the strategy of Quinto Fabio. it was him? The memoirs of school were some vague ones, however it referred to the procrastinator that Annibale had defeated without giving battle. In short, in few words, you/he/she would have followed for now good face and the project, reserving himself/herself/itself to throw back him in the case you/he/she had held him/it opportune.

Again you/he/she was lost here are in his/her thoughts, while its careful look had deceived the dangerous couple AM. Rather you/they had evidently interpreted his/her silence as a bad sign, in fact now that you/he/she had started over paying attention, you/they were blandishing him/it.

"Obvious that if the project proceeds well and the situation stabilizes him" Sergio was saying "there will be to earn for everybody, I think about further financings, to the possibility to bring here some laureandis, also eventually to the financing of a scholarship."

To those words the eyes of Arianna illuminated him. It had only still in front of itself one year of purse of doctorate, then the most absolute dark. To Pious a kick arrived under the chair, definite that perhaps it was the case to interrupt that silence to the Celentano.

"It is all right, we will make the puppets that turn for the mine, however you must assure me that you/he/she can be sampled and that all the champions you will send, quickly, in Italy."

Sergio laughed under the moustaches, you/he/she had won, definite that could be surrendered on banal matters as those.

"But certain, we will send everything in Italy for DHL and then I see us very well to you to make the santone that circles on the mine. Then we agree, I beg me: to the reunion you ask difficult questions, storm them, in short you make to understand that you know more than them." It got up then of release to go to smoke out, followed by Franco.

Pious this time fell in a kind of lethargy, absorbed in its thoughts. To know more than them of it? How, do these work to that mine from who knows how old, is there to Brieville an engineer that manages who knows the plant from when, arrival me and must I know more than them of it?! The usual haughtiness of the Europeans, and must I lend me to the game, do I almost almost send everything awry, and then thing cabbage I tell him some plant if I have never seen a spiral or a table to shake?

It came him in help a banal proverb: don't bandage you the head before having her/it rout. On the other hand you/he/she was not disembarked to Berkeley as an irresponsible dottorando to the first weapons that I miss he/she decently knew the English? And had not you/he/she departed for the tundra siberiana without knowing what it waited for him/it? You/he/she could also launch him in the adventure of a lost mine in the savanna of northern Madagascar. Then you/he/she would be seen.

Silvana, that having also entered very well the AM from few Sergio knew, being one friend of his of infancy, evidently worried by that kind of catalepsy, definite to intervene, while Sergio and Franco were out still. It extracted a cigarette, it smoked an incalculable number of it without minding to the place or to the people, and it started.

"Pious, it looks that Sergio is a serious person. Yes, ago the playful one, but you can entrust yourself, what promises always maintains him/it, I would not be here otherwise. Cabbage, is a third day and I already has the diarrhea, who knows as I will go out from there."

The last sentence served to definitely go out Pious as the trance: cabbage, had not brought any medicinal against the disease of Montezuma, even if here you/they should call him/it some queen. hog dog, the name of the famous queen didn't remember him that had reigned on Madagascar before the arrival of French, on the other hand all these Malagasy they had long and unpronounceable names. Avalomanana, Romolofotro and things of the kind, who knows from where the name of Sam Fox came that it with all the others, it was only perhaps a nickname.

The sentence with which Pious it perhaps went out of the trance it was not to frame but, at least, it was a lot of pragmatica.

"Arianna you have brought some dissenten?"

Silvana looked at him/it rolled and definite that the university teachers were certainly all crazy ones and that you/he/she was the case to reach the others two to smoke out.

The trio AM reentered after some minutes. Sergio declared closed the technical reunion and, with that, the working day; Franco and he were busy and you/they would have left them free the whole day.

Two thoughts darted in the mind of Pious. Primo: the working day is concluded that they are not the 11 yet, it is all right that are in Africa but here us her he takes really comfortable. According to: what could you/they do, alone, the whole day, from white armored in the hotel? But Franco, as reading him in the thought, or better in their lost looks, it intervened.

"You could go to make a turn to the Digue, it is the mercatino where the tourists go, it is amusing."

Silvana showed enthusiastic of the idea and churches to accompany Pious and Arianna. The three put on of accord immediately to go us after lunch and they was dismissed by Sergio and Franco.

Shortly after the 14 Pious, Arianna and Silvana went out of the hotel and they were directed definite, splitting the crowd to the nearest taxi. From the motorcar a Malagasy youth jumped out, evidently the driver, that was dozed off and that it hardly showed sixteen years. You systematized in head a ridiculous bonnet of beige wool and it told something French. Fortunately Silvana knew better the language of the Latin cousins of Pious and Arianna and she answered something in hurry, dopodiché the three plunged him in the auto, while crowd tightened him on them, Pious before and the two women behind. It was alone when, after various croaky attempts, the driver little boy started the auto, that Pious realized the mean on which had been climbed. It was a Citroen two horses of undetermined age, but absolutely decrepit, reduced to the bone as spolpata: they missed the handles to the doors, the handle grips for the car windows, that of Pious you/he/she had lowered and a hand had taken advantage to wave under his nose of the tickets of one some lottery of it, the small mirror inside retrovisore was reduced to some fragments glued the loom and that outside missed entirely it. Pious it felt innumerable soft under the bottom, an express control with the hand confirmed that the seat was completely broken down. From the monoblocco, where the driver had inserted the key, cables and electric threads escaped.

The auto set out with seraphic slowness and the little boy, that it hardly reached to see the road, it turned him with a smile to all teeth saying "Je me appelle Remy." The price of the run was arranged by Silvana to 10.000 aryaries and the auto it crossed the vialone directing himself/herself/itself toward the nearest gas station attendant. Here Remy made him fill a plastic bottle from a liter and a half and it poured a part of it in the reservoir, watching out for not to even disperse a drop of it.

The manoeuvre struck Pious that, gotten used to the search, it sought the causes of that behavior. It immediately found her in the suitable price on the distributor: 2720 aryaries to the liter, more than an European or little less that in Italy. In the mind of Pious another of his/her trips departed, that countersigned him/it, that of the mental calculation. Considering that a Malagasy salary, for the little that a salary had, it wandered around the 30 dollars a month, appraising the European change / dollar and that European / aryary, making a respect of the consumption of gasoline of that catorcios on which you/they traveled, quickly it calculated that a Malagasy discreetly fortunate, or endowed with a salary, you/he/she could buy, investing us all of its earningses, gasoline for no more than 200 km, against the over 12.000 that you/he/she could afford him. You felt to that point able to appreciate better the qualities of the Malagasy zebu as slow but sure and, above all, economic mean of transport.

The taxi in the meantime had left the city and you/he/she was now crossing an outskirts of huts, fields of rice and sky sewers opened, that alternated him without an apparent order and, probably, even substantial.

Silvana had taken in liking Remy and you/he/she apostrophized him/it with his/her hoarse voice, pointing out him holes, carrion, sellers and mendicant that hampered the footstep.

In about twenty minutes they reached the Digue and they discovered, with them surprise, that he treated in effects of a dike, or better of the bank of a muddy and malodorous channel, coasted along from an excavated road, where, in hundreds of wood huts lined up, souvenir was sold for tourists: cloths, more precious stones, fossils, objects of rafia or wood and few other, the all repeated up to the nausea. The period was decidedly out of the tourist season and the few tourists they were object of a continuous assault, that repeated him of stand in stand. Pious he/she wondered, surely gives the superior relationship to ten to one between stands and tourists, how many business succeeded in concluding in a day. You responded alone that, probably, also an only sale also allowed one numerous Malagasy family to survive different days.

The three went out later of the weary test over two hours, destroyed but happy, with their load of more beautiful objects, but certainly useless, that loaded on the taxi of Remy. This last, not to lose a run of whites, had waited them for the whole time sat in auto, lowering himself/herself/itself on the face his/her wool beret. Silvana appreciated so much the gesture to make to be given by Remy the number of jail cell - you/he/she seems that however poor every Malagasy is at least gifted of it to Tanà, where the coverage is decent - promising to call him/it to him every time that we had needed a taxi.

That evening Sergio neither Franco they made alive and the three dined in the hotel. Later Pious it took advantage to begin the Terzani that had brought with itself of it.

The following morning was Friday, in theory the day of the reunion with the vertexes of the Mormorano Chrome, but Franco made alive only toward the 11, with a completely different plan.

"Pious, I have talked to a teacher of geology of the Polytechnic of Antananarivo, it waits us for a visit to the university this morning, some student will perhaps entrust also us, that will come with us to Brieville. It would not be to build badly an official collaboration."

Pious it was decidedly happy about the fold that you/they were taking the things. You/he/she would finally have been able to talk to a colleague, to know more something on the geology of Madagascar and, even, of the chrome you. The possibility to open an international collaboration, was then the welcome one.

Professor Roger, the last name-tongue twister passed as a lightning and quickly faded away from the mind of Pious, it welcomed them with enthusiasm introducing him Aina, student of geology that a thesis was doing on the mine of Brieville. The things put on well. The illusion however few lasted, the visit was depressing: you/they had shown him a dusty and bare chemical laboratory, evidently in disuse, to which you/they followed two microscopes Zeiss of the sixties, kept under key as they were relics and the only modern tool, an atomic absorption, gift of some universities European if not straight in the World Bank, as Roger explained in a French of which Pious he understood rare fragments. Unfortunately the tool had not worked never. There had been never the money for the purchase of the material of consumption, besides the donors had not thought, or you/they were not leastly interested more probably, to the formation of qualified personnel, in degree to make to work the instrument and to perform its maintenance. Accordingly, in inexperienced hands, the consumable ones of the initial supply had been enough correct to give the time to break the instrument. Currently the tool lay covered with dust in an angle waiting for some donor some less exhibitionist that, instead of giving an expensive instrument, it was available to give her/it well fluorescent ability to make him/it work.

Pious finally learned that the institute was not endowed with a library and that the students limited him to learn theoretical lessons - a true paradox in a Country so various and interesting geologicamente - since, besides any tool of laboratory, missed the money to bring the students on the ground. He/she already remembered Pious, with one month of salary gasoline can be bought for 200 km.

Pious it went out of that visit disheartened. He/she thought about the cuts that repeated him to the Italian university and that, in his/her department, you/they had already started to make himself/herself/themselves heavily feel, with reduction of the technical personnel, less money for the maintenance, reduction of the subscriptions to the scientific magazines, cuts to the didactic excursions and so street. Soon we will be as Africa, concluded Pious, not at all happy to such a brotherhood with the black continent.

While Roger and the other teachers were greeting and taking the number of jail cell of Aina, with the promise to bring her/it to Brieville, the telephone it rang: it was Sergio, that incited them to return in the hotel as soon as possible since the meeting with the vertexes of the Morarano Chrome there would have been that same afternoon. Suddenly, as the waters of the Red Sea in front of the Hebrews, all the obstacles were made aside and every wedge of the puzzle had gone to place.

Pious, taken by mystical-biblical visions, spent the trip in the taxi of Remy, from the polytechnic in the hotel, humming a halleluja of Beethoven or of some other classical musician. Eh yes, he/she thought of the meantime, the classical music is really a black hole that would go, at least a minimum, filled.

The meeting had fixed for the sixteen in the center of the Morarano Chrome and Pious and Ariannas spent attends him to make conjectures on every possible technical or geologic matter that would be been able to jump out.

To the 16 it gave to pick up them Franco and, in ten minutes, they reached the place of the meeting. It was a grey and low building, anonymous, embellished however, at least to the eyes of Pious and Arianna, from an enormous block of cromite to the entry. Pious it withstood the strong temptation to calculate the value of that block in base to a respect of the price of the cromite, of the possible way, of the volume and of the density.

Ten minutes of delay in Madagascar it was as to say at least fifty minutes of advance and to the Morarano Chrome they made him gather entirely unprepared. The secretary, evidently frightened by that four whites, it disappeared in the corridors to the desperate search of someone to which to unload them. It returned shortly after, accompanied by a young occhialuto from the intellectual air, that as Emile Movoloqualcosa introduced him. Sergio and Franco thought well about taking advantage of the situation to go out to smoke, leaving Pious and Arianna in the hands of Emile, that it accompanied them in his/her study.

"From the" Arianna said "it is the moment to show off French that you have in the blood."

Pious it arranged him feeling himself/herself/itself on a bed of thorns.

"Eté vous a geologue" it tried, so much to say something.

"Oui" Emile responded.

Pious went groping on and continually throwing the eye to the corridor, in the hope to see to appear Franco. All of a sudden it had the fortune to ask to Emile.

"Etè vou jamais en Europe" and the happiness to feel himself/herself/themselves to answer.

"Oui, j'ai travaillé huit ans en Russia."

Pious it stuck with hope to these information passing to the Russian, that knew, not well, but certain better of French.

"You govorite po-russkii?"

"From, kaniechna" Emile responded.

The conversation could continue then in Russian, not without difficulty but in enough flowing way. Emile was a geologist just assumed by the Morarano Chrome and, to how much it said, not to work on the cromite, of which little knew and you/he/she could not be a lot of help in that field. It possessed however some papers geologiche of the mining concession of Andriamena, where the mine of Brieville was found. Taken by a drawer a paper and it unfolded her/it on his/her desk. Finally something geologic! Pious it made to quickly flow his/her experienced eye on the most important details. It climbs one to cinquantamila, you coordinate Laborde, the system of coordinates I specify of Madagascar - a problem in more - year of publication 1962, French language. Reaches the legenda Pious he/she remained to open mouth but, soffermandocisi an instant, quickly reached the conclusion that was obvious after all. Besides being in French the legenda you/he/she was crammed of an antiquated and inadequate terminology, over that specifically French. The geology, of all the scientific disciplines, it was the more youth: the fundamental theory of the sciences of the Earth, the tectonics of the plates, went up again note a sixties, for which a fifty year-old paper and, often, also of forty or thirty, it absolutely resulted inadequate, not founding himself/herself/itself on the principles of the unifying theory of the discipline. Some very useful information he could draw however: the rocks were all of age archeana, or ancient, over the 2500 million of years; they prevailed, it seemed, gneiss and intrusive complexes. Pious it noticed that the mining concession was very wide, of rectangular form and it covered at least 600 square kilometers. To his/her inside the cromite was suitable in the form of "indices" with a symbol and a progressive number, they were to about ten of it. Pious you/he/she was trying to individualize Brieville and the mine when the secretary entered informing Emile of the arrival of Sam Fox. Emile quickly put away the paper, apologizing and returning to speak to French. An instant later Sam Fox entered accompanied by Sergio and Franco. It was a small and hyperactive dwarf, always in movement, with brisk eyes and polite ways. Pious it immediately framed him/it as an intelligent person, of those that count and they act. Emile greeted and conducted the four whites in an ample room reunions, with to the center a great square table. It ordered to the secretary to offer tea to everybody. In the meantime they started to arrive other people. Toward the seventeen and thirty someone established that were all and the reunion it started.

AM there were Pious aside Arianna, Sergio and Franco. Aside Malagasy they counted him in everything eight people, whose roles were not well clear. Aina, appeared who knows from where, it fluctuated among the two groups, Pious he/she didn't know well as to put her/it.

Sam Fox officially as commercial manager of the company introduced him and made the customary what is suitable. It passed then the word to Franco, which introduced Pious and Arianna in rather pompous way and it started a discourse that, for that few of French how Pious it understood, it seemed fact of fried air and empty words, full however of praises for all the presents.

In way entirely unaware Franco intercalated sometimes in the discourse some curse-word in Italian, but in so natural way that the Malagasy ones perhaps took her for furbished expressions.

Well soon Pious lost entirely the thread of the discourse and definite that was better to focus on something more useful, type to make an idea of the presents. After some minutes of careful observation definite to catalog the Malagasy ones in three classes: those intelligent and that they count, as Sam Fox, those that count and enough, as the majority in that meeting and, finally, those intelligent but that they don't count. To this last category only an individual belonged, such geologist Romeo, the cat of the colosseo, had thought immediately Pious during the presentations, quoting the aristogattis of his/her childhood. Pious you/he/she had individualized him/it as the only possible source of geologic data on the mine, besides Emile, naturally, that would have put in the same class, but that you/he/she had not been invited to the reunion. Pious it folded up him toward Arianna and it whispered her to the ear.

"That Romeos you/he/she could furnish us a lot of useful indications, we must mark him/it narrow."

To Pious it touched only a brief intervention that, strengthened his/her scarce knowledge of French and the as many scarce knowledge of the English of the greatest part of the presents, was in Italian, translated in French by Franco. Few generic words, a thanks for the hospitality and a wish for a long and profitable collaboration. Pious, valued as it threw the wind in that reunion, he was careful not to put on the table geologiche or techniques you argue, despite what Sergio had recommended him the morning of the day before.

At the end of the reunion Sergio approached to Pious.

"You see" it began "these reunions don't serve to anything of practical, it counts only who was, not thing is said, and there was the correct people, they were also all curious ones to see these teachers of the university in Milan. Obviously we have made to also pass for teacher Arianna. You, beg me, not to deny us."

But it was indeed then a kind of gorilla in cage and the Malagasy ones you/they had come to see the phenomenon from booth. Pious he darkened and did it come him to mind, in enough incongruous way, a song of De Andrè, on a gorilla that brutalized a teacher, or was it him that he remembered badly? And, was he the gorilla or the brutalized teacher above all? In both cases there was not to be happy.

However something was established, you/they would have departed for the mine Monday, bringing them Aina. To the mine Romeo would have found, that would have followed them for the whole time of their permanence, two or three days.

They returned in hotel submerged by the downpour of words of an enthusiastic Sergio. Pious it didn't know that side of the character of Sergio yet, which, when it was in a good mood, it was able to shoot an exorbitant number of words to the minute, on any matter of the human knowledge. Pious the takings with philosophy, were after all Sergio that paid everything, him he could also make to pass that mania. It was the case however to put into effect of the countermoves. It composed a careful listener face and, from his/her repertoire of mantra, it chose a classical that always gave him great satisfactions: 'Vanity of vanity' of Angel Branduardi.

After supper, still in euphoric phase, decided Sergio that needed to celebrate and that any place was better, for this, that the Indra, the most disreputable and equivocal place of Antananarivo. Pious definite that was an experience not to lose and, after having promised that you/he/she would not have abandoned her to go with some puttanas, he/she succeeded in convincing Arianna to go with them. Arianna then Silvana dragged, remembering her that you/he/she would have been able to quietly smoke the whole time. The only one that the invitation declined was Franco, that said to be too much a personality in sight to Tanà to make to be seen in a place as that say any fact that you/he/she was married a Malagasy.

Naturally they went with Remy, before to supper, then to the Indra. The driver, well happy to have been adopted, it drove around them for the tall city looking for a restaurant that Sergio knew, but he/she didn't know how to situate anymore. Joints on top of a steep slope, finally succeeded in recognizing some points of reference, and it told Remy to return back. Remy, with seraphic smile, it extinguished the motor, it put in insane, and it made him the two hundred meters of the descent of run, to the back and contromano. At the end of the descent all bursted in a laughter liberatoria. The price of the gasoline is all right, he/she thought Pious, but to put again us the pens for a deciliter of super it was really too.

Later, in the journey toward the Indra, the driver exhibited him in another pearl. Pious, as usual gives his/her non indifferent massive structure, he/she sat before and, from the lowered car window, a cold brezzolina decidedly entered. To Tanà, 1400 meters on the level of the sea, at night the temperature easily goes down under the ten degrees. Pious it made to notice the drawback to Remy, which quickly intervened, recovering the glass in the door, throwing him/it above to the best and staring at him/it with a screwdriver.

They reached the Indra toward the twenty-three. Out of the local stazionava a big number of idlers from the threatening air. Arianna made a further attempt to dissuade the group.

"But are you really sure to want to go down in the middle of these faces?"

In effects also Pious he/she hesitated, but it was Sergio to take in hand the situation.

"Not worried you, you come with me", then, turned to the driver, it said "You wait here us."

It was not clear if for the words of Sergio or because you/he/she would not have stirred from there even to cannonades - after having found well four vasàs that were his/her hen from the gold eggs - but Remy was prepared to a long attended crouching himself/herself/itself in the seat and throwing himself/herself/itself on makes her/it his/her bonnet.

The four entered the place with circumspection, after having evidently been the only ones to pay the ticket. Inside young men and women Malagasy - minor? he/she immediately thought Pious - they danced: only an instant of amazement for the entry of well four vasàs all in once. The vasàs themselves were not the only whites of the place however. In different angles of the place two men, an elderly gentleman in white shirt of sweat and a quarantenne by the uncultivated beard, was surrounded by girls, that fingered and from which were made to finger smiling. Pious it attentively quadrated them while Arianna howled him in the ear: the volume of the music was decidedly too much tall.

"You have seen? This is a brothel and that two I am certainly pedofili in hunting."

Pious he/she remembered the numerous notices, suspended anywhere to Tanà, especially in the places for white, that remembered that the pedofilia is a crime. If there were the notices there were also certainly the pedofilis, he/she thought.

The gruppetto maintained him compact setting himself/herself/itself to a wall. Unexpectedly the first ones to be boarded by a pair of smiling ragazzonis were Silvana and Arianna. Pious he/she remembered that in Africa it is flourishing the sexual tourism to the female one, even if the Malagasy ones it didn't seem you/they could virilely be gifted as other people of the continent, and it made a reason. Not as many they made Silvana and Arianna that were managed with difficulty, with an air between the flattered one and the afraid one. There was to say, he/she still thought Pious, that the two ragazzonis, from big gentlemen, they seemed not to almost make account of the difference between the 25 years of Arianna and the 50 of Silvana.

Pious if you/he/she was laughing her/it from some when a girl, no more than one meter and fifty - for which the assault arrived from the lower part to the sudden one - it gathered him/it unprepared boarding him/it, but in less elegant way decidedly than you/he/she had happened to Silvana and Arianna. In man that is not said Pious he found again surrounded by girls that him they rubbed on him. Instinctively the right hand, position of all the European prejudices, went off, gluing himself/herself/itself to the right pocket of the pants where it held the portfolio. Will they be preconceived from capitalistic white? It will be also, he/she thought Pious, but with the passport in pocket there is few to joke, it goes from there some reentry to Italy.

The rest of the evening passed between the jokes and the laughters of Silvana and Arianna and the embarrassment of Pious. All of a sudden it also sprouted a photographic car. We hope that the photos don't arrive somehow to the students, he/she thought Pious while you/he/she was being immortalized. Sergio meanwhile, from man of world, he/she sat drinking a three horses, the local beer, in a place recovered who knows as. With the usual capitalistic mancetta, he/she thought Pious trying to release from an embrace until too much fiery.

When the sexual offers became more explicit and many colored the four decided that it was the time to earn the exit. Thing that happened to suon of shoves and among the general dismay.

Remy slept blessed in the taxi. Owed wake up shaking him/it the auto. Silvana took the assignment to hold him/it awake in the brief journey up to the hotel.

6

Pious he woke up on Saturdays you delay morning, some for the evening to the Indra that was finishes toward the two, some because in that weekend they didn't have very to do. Pious you/he/she would have wanted to adjourn him on geology, giacimentologia and technical matters. It seemed however that it was impossible. Neither from the Morarano Chrome neither from the AM, for different reasons, you/he/she could wait him to have material bibliographical. From the crumbling Polytechnic even to speak of it. Franco had told him that in the city there was a national museum of geology, with attached library, that he sold texts and papers geologiche, but naturally in the weekend you/he/she was closed. Pious he/she thought about calling Aina, the girl however you/he/she had appeared bashful and timid, and Pious therefore it feared to break some taboos or local custom. If only you/he/she had been able to have at least the paper of Emile.

Breakfast was reached to from Arianna while it was being absorbed in these thoughts. Evidently also Arianna had thought of us, in fact just arranged him, with a full dish of mangos, it said to Pious.

"It seems that here I/you/he/she am impossible to recover material bibliographical of any type, those of the Morarano seem to consider him/it top secret. I have tried this morning, going down soon, to connect me to internet and to look for the site of the geologic museum of Antananarivo, but the connection is not better than that than the postal office. But have you understood there something of the paper that that type has put us under the nose yesterday, for then to make her/it disappear to the speed of the light?"

"It was a very old paper" he/she answered Pious "French, of the sixties. The job of ground probably went up again a fifties, when Madagascar was a French colony. And French cared to exploit at the most their colonies. It used a really antiquated terminology, difficult to understand, however it seems that the mining concession is very great, and all in terrestrial archeani. There were about ten signs of cromite, but I had not succeeded in individualizing the mine yet, when Emile has removed from me him from under the nose."

"Beh" Arianna taken back "then it doesn't stay us that the tourists to do in these two days. Do we try to go out alone?"

"Ok, tries, but not to stop to bargain over you in the middle of the road, throws astute and we see how it goes."

"Of accord, Pious, I go above to prepare me, we see us in 10 minutes."

Arianna was a geologist and this for some aspects it prevailed on the being woman. The geologhes, don't put make up on usually him, they dress casual and, above all I am able to get ready to go out in 10 minutes.

Pious and Ariannas went out that it was almost already midday, a lukewarm sun illuminated the city. There will be 23 or 24 degrees, he/she thought Pious. Tanà is really an exceptional city climatically. They were practically to the beginning in the southern spring, but the traditional four seasons don't have a lot of sense in Madagascar, dominated by a climate monsonico. There is a dry season, that has gone since June to November and a damp, from December in May. To Tanà, castled on the highland, in the dry season, that colder, the diurnal temperature wanders between the 20 and the 25 degrees, while at night he easily goes down under the 10, with points around him zero. In the damp season it does more heat, but the temperature reaches, however, only rarely the 30 degrees and at night it always refreshes holding himself/herself/itself between the 15 and the 20. An ideal climate, to which an uneven topography is softly added: Tanà is stretched, in fact, on about ten necks, that you/they make the very animated landscape. In short a beautiful city vivibile, thought still Pious, if it were that the level of pollution, as in all the capitals of the third world, it is unbearable, making almost at times the air unbreathable, especially in the low parts of the city, where the smog stagnates. And if it were for the dirt, the poverty, the favelases, the congested traffic, the buildings in downfall or crumbling.

While Pious it thought continuosly about on the destiny of the African capitals, grown to excess in few years, you/they had crossed the whole vialone at the end of which the Den was found Plaza and you/they had reached an area where a great market rose to the open one. They penetrated you. Unlike what they were waited, there was not that to proliferate of tropical fruits that had found in the hotel. That fruits grew on the coast and to bring them to the capital cost too much, for the miserable pockets of the tanesis. Will they call then so the inhabitants of Antananarivo? Of sure they won't call antananarivesi, do you excuse her it is antananarivese? Etè vous antananarivese? You find again yourself with the knotted language. It is instead some that you/they call Merina. In Madagascar they cohabit well eighteen great etnies, each with his/her traditions, his/her territory and his/her tribal laws. The Merinas were the dominant tribe, installed on the highland, that had for capital Tanà and that you/he/she had unified, under a ruling dynasty, Madagascar in the XIX century.

The market was extremely poor: tubers, vegetables and vegetables of difficulty determination, some dry fish, shrunken apples - anything else other than tropical fruits - and rare benches of meat, where pale pieces of meat lay, covered by flies, on the wood benches improvised or suspended to of the hooks.

More they estranged from the Den Plaza and less you/they were troubled by mendicant and sellers. A man from the country air approached Pious offering him one of the alive turkeys whom brought, tied up for the legs, holding them down to head.

You was relaxing when Pious it realized that the pocket of the marsupium pouch was open: panic. An express control: the portfolio and everything of its content there were fortunately. An instant before an oldie from the hair almost white completions, at least so you/he/she had judged Pious - it was always difficult to give an age to the Malagasy ones - you/he/she had asked him the alms, handing him with insistence the hat, that had held well firm under the nose of Pious, so that to hide the maneggiamentis on the marsupium pouch.

Encouraged by the little interest that you/they had aroused among the places to the market, Pious and Ariannas decided to have lunch out. They reached a bettolaccia frequented only from Malagasy and they entered provoking, now yes, the wonder of the customers and the owner. They ate a dish of rice and the chicken with french fries, watered by a three horses for 3600 aryaries to head, less than an European and a half.

To the return in the hotel, toward the sixteen, they waited them for two surprises. The first one was, between a clash and a cloud of smoke, an angry Silvana, was not understood if because you/he/she had been left alone in the hotel or because you/he/she was worried for them. Perhaps both the things. Pious and Ariannas let her/it discharge for handing then her some enough formal excuses and a little you feel. The second surprise was a ticket for Pious that was delivered him to the reception, together with a visit ticket. They were of Emile that he/she invited them after supper to house his/her Sunday evening.

Pious it showed the ticket to Arianna, which had an enough knowledge of the Cyrillic characters to understand that you/he/she was written in Russian. He/she explained her that it dealt with an invitation to house of Emile and Arianna immediately said "we Go, I would like really to see a Malagasy house." Pious however not the takings so to the light one. You/he/she was worried.

"It seems me a thing some above the lines. Is Emile an employee of Morarano, are we paid by AM here, it is not that then they think that we wanted to make the things to their shoulders? And then who knows him/it? Have we spoken there for 10 scarce minutes and does he/she already invite us to his/her house?"

"From the, do stop her/it" Arianna taken back "also to turn for Tanà, seemed the day before yesterday only an impossible thing, and you has seen that beautiful turn we are done this morning there?"

"That it enters it, it is a completely different discourse."

"And then even" Arianna taken back "Emile will make us see yesterday's paper, even a lot of papers, not to forget that it is a geologist."

Arianna had touched the correct key. Pious, irritated because their job of geologists had not leastly been considered till now, suddenly he/she saw that meeting as a sort of conspiracy of the geologists against the rest of the world that snobbed them.

"It is all right, you are right, we will go, who knows that comes out from there some interesting information for the job, and then Emile is me nice, with that air some from conspirator. For now however we don't tell anything anybody, even to Silvana, we see how it goes the meeting and then we will decide."

"Of accord" he/she answered satisfied Arianna.

Before supper it reached them Sergio, still euphoric but fortunately less logorroico. It said that Franco had been forced by his/her wife to dine to house and that, if you/they had wanted, you/they could go even to dinner together and then a jump you/he/she could be done to the casino.

The program found all of accord and, lacking the auto with driver of Franco, they had once more to call Remy. They decided to avoid amusing, but dangerous, gymkhanas for the city and they directed him to the restaurant of the preceding evening.

After supper, always crowded in the catorcio of Remy, they reached the hotel Hilton, inside which the casino was found. Once more Pious it noticed as does her/it white it represented a sort of lasciapassare. You/they could enter, to place on the divanettis, to turn anywhere without nobody disturbed them, really and exclusively for that fool white face.

They filled out the form for the entry to the casino with names of imagination, Pious it chose to personify Ettore Balsi, the stiff one and imbalsiamato, as well as a little beloved, coordinator of the section of mineralogy, all the students' scarecrow to the examinations, provoking an inopportune burst of laughs from Arianna.

Once entered, Sergio directed him expeditious in the room of the manager, where it exchanged affectionate regards with an individual from the sinister aspect, sturdy, with cappellaccio and American gangster cigar. It was exactly the type of character that would wait us to see how manager of an African casino in a film of serious B. Gathered him to the others, Sergio he/she explained that it dealt with a mafioso còrso, that had decided to devote to that lucrative activity. Pious definite not to wonder how come Sergio knew him/it.

They changed European winds to head and they prepared him to play to the roulette on the table from the lowest episodes: the smallest tokens were from thousand aryary. The customers were for half around white and for half Indian: any Malagasy as there was to wait him. Amazing instead it was for Pious that Sergio played with frivolity and without weight. It was evident as it was not an inveterate player and, once finished his/her European winds, it didn't change of it more. They went out toward midnight all with European winds in less, except Arianna, radiant, which had won more than of it 50.

In the journey of return toward the Pious hotel he/she thought about the meeting of the next day with Emile, who knows thing would have come out of it. The everything had an air some mysterious, to Pious it came in head some tune from one of the innumerable films of 007. He/she didn't succeed in removing from him him from the head anymore until it didn't fall dormant in the bed of the hotel.

7

The house of Emile was found some out of the center, in the low part of the city, a condominium that in Europe you/he/she would immediately have made to think about some Country of the east: bleakness, scraped walls, wild locks of grass that sprout from the sidewalk. To Tanà, it had straight instead a reassuring air, at least naked children were not seen to play in the mud, slim chickens to race to hide in some ravine and, above all they missed solicitors, leprous, or sellers of paradoxical objects, so common in the other zones.

Pious and Arianna had come in taxi, but not with Remy. This choice, derived by a proposal of Arianna, you/he/she had made to feel Pious in full climate conspiracy: you/they had already started and to take some provisions to prevent from reconstructing their movements. Arianna paid the taxi - Pious, some for his/her habit, some also for the excessive encumbrance, you/he/she had fairly divided with Arianna the enormous loot of banknotes received by Franco - and the two directed him toward the entry of the condominium. The situation had something unreal: here is a researcher and his/her dottoranda, that one month before didn't think that to one October of lessons, laboratory and study in the reassuring places of the university in Milan, that went him in an unknown district of a capital African in answer to a sibylline ticket lined in Russian. Certainly, to be catapulted in thousands suddenly of kilometers from house and to sidereal cultural spaces from the cotton wool of their habits it already gave a beautiful patina of irreality by itself to the whole trip.

They were considerations how Pious you/he/she had started to have been serving for a few days and that riaffioravano bossier than never, at that time of peak of irreality. It was as once suspended, a place not place, in which unthinkable things could happen. In which a taxi could be together with the spit and a zebu to cross you the road in full center. In which could happen you to climb over a spread out leper on the sidewalk, or to see to offer you to few aryaries, for road, American condoms subtracted to the international helps. _There east the Afrique_ , Franco said, with the air of whom knows her/it long, and they had well soon proper sort this expression, that magnificently reassumed the explanation of any strangeness. In the same moment in which you/they reached the entry, to Pious the rapid sequence of scenes came to mind that it passes in front of the eyes of Nino Manfredi in another of its films cult: 'Our heroes will succeed in finding again their friend mysteriously disappeared in Africa?'.

"From the, Pious, but that you do? You six imbambolatos? Are you afraid? Do you want to return back?"

Pious been received, or it was better shaken for the sleeve from Arianna, that you/he/she had seen him/it lose in his/her thoughts really in front of the bell of entry of the apartment of Emile.

They played, Emile opened in person, that greeted them with a lot of courtesy, that the impression didn't give to be affected, and it made them arrange in the living room. The apartment didn't seem small, he/she was seen in the semi-obscurity a right corridor of some meters on which you/they leaned out different doors and that you/he/she was crossed as a lightning by two minute figures, little boys, probably the curious children of Emile. They crossed to the right the first door and they entered a living room furnished with mobile spartani and worn-out in Soviet style, to Pious the doubt came that Emile if you/he/she was brought them behind from Russia. There were different books, some knickknack and many stones and fossils, that immediately attracted the attention of Pious and Arianna. While you/they were looking at of it some, it leaned out to the door a young lady that introduced him as the wife of Emile and that he/she offered him to prepare a coffee.

Emile involved from perfect and kind landlord, also giving to Pious a spectacular section of wood trunk fossil, of over winds centimeters of diameter.

The problem was the conversation. They began in French, not to cut entirely out Arianna, but the results were really very bad. The two understood few or nothing, they always had to ask to Emile to repeat and they often misunderstood, so well soon they passed to the Russian, with Pious that it sometimes translated or it reassumed for Arianna. Also here the incomprehensions didn't miss date the defective knowledge of that language from both, the thing however it assumed even more a film air of espionage. Pious he felt electrified as a little boy.

Emile tried to interest the two Italian geologists to of the gold layers of the north of Madagascar, not away from Mahajanga. It showed some papers, it gave some geologic information and then it disappeared in the corridor, returning later a few minutes with a scatolino, that opened with attention. It contained a big number of thin sections of rock. Pious it didn't understand if the affairs of Emile were scientific or commercial - certain it slanted for the second hypothesis - however, behind offer of Emile, it accepted to bring the whole collection of thin sections in Italy, promising to make her/it see to one colleague of his, experienced in gold layers. To that Pious point it held to have acquired a credit, having accepted to collaborate with Emile to the study of the gold layers of Mahajanga, although it believed that the thing could not land to anything. The gold is really an ugly beast, jewel, attracts too much the troubles as flies. Adventurers, mercenaries, desperate. Better the cromite. It is not easy to steal 10.000 dollars of cromite, are they some about ten tons and where can you hide her? How does hand her away, without nobody sees you along the hundred kilometers of the only road? While to steal 10.000 gold dollars, enough a pocket. As an any gang of marauders can intercept, even to massacre, and to easily bring away a gold load, well other thing is to steal a train of cromite of the Morararano Chrome. Where do you hide him/it? Rather, where do you send him/it, considering that the railway line that brings from Morarano to the I bring of Tamatave it is the only working?

Pious it was intended to show the thin sections to his/her colleague Valentina, to appraise her, even also to do some quantitative analyses and to pass the results to Emile. He would have drawn even his/her advantage and them of it a scientific publication. It didn't certainly have intention to go on the place, who knows that people there were middle. Pious definite therefore to spend the acquired credit asking information on the mines of cromite of Brieville. Once more Emile it got up and it went out of the room. It returned after about ten minutes bringing and leaning on the tavolino of the living room some papers and a CD.

"The district of Andriamena" it started in a mixed Russian to some words of French "you/he/she is constituted by lenses and signs of cromite inside pirosseniti and peridotiti. These are, at times, in partnership to gabbri to constitute some bodies mafici and lost ultramafici in the rocks granitoidi archeane. The everything has suffered a metamorfismo of middle degree and it is naturally polideformato. In the mining concession of the Morarano Chrome there are two slow principals, these next to Brieville, in the southern part" and it pointed out her on the paper. "Currently the only cultivated, in open pit, is the lens of Ankazomotala. The other, the lens of Bemankevina, was cultivated only from French for brief time, in the sixties. There are then, more to north, different smaller lenses, from some about ten up to some hundred thousand of tons, against the 8 million of tons of Ankazomotala and the 6 million of tons of Bemankevina. There are then more than one hundred smaller signs of cromite, these black bracelets on the paper, that however it is not said that cannot hide slow important."

It finally opened a geologic window on the mines of Brieville, that, therefore, to how much Emile had said, they currently reduced him to the alone mine of Ankazomotala. Pious you/he/she would have wanted to ask thousand questions to Emile, but these it protected him alleging the fact that had been assumed just and that he/she didn't know more a lot.

"However" taken back "I leave you this CD with a file that reassumes the history of the exploitation of the District of Andriamena, some years ago you/he/she has been published, but it certainly contains information that can be you useful. This other paper instead" it said while he/she was explaining a second sheet than at least one meter for one meter "it is the planimetria to the 500 of the open pit of Ankazomotala. The area in yellow it is the lens that you/they are cultivating now."

Pious it noticed that the lens was found really on the fund of the open pit, that was constituted from at least eight terraces, with a general depth of around 70 meters and a notable middle inclination of the walls. On the paper there were besides two series of rectilinear and parallel segments outdistanced of winds meters the one from the other. The two series were ortogonali between the respective segments and they they were intersected in more points; finally along the segments, to varying intervals, there were some symbols, constituted by a containing circle a x. Pious it interpreted the all as the traces of sections geologiche and the points in which had been performed some surveys. Surely you/he/she had been done an accurate job of prospecting on the layer of cromite. And you/they had been invested a heap of money with what you/they cost the surveys. You/he/she would have been interesting and also useful to have available the data of the surveys, or better still the carrots of rock, and also the sections interpretative geologiche. Pious it made to notice the everything to Emile and he/she asked him if he/she knew to who to address for having more information on that jewels geologic data. Emile responded that up to that moment he had not been able to see the carrots neither the sections geologiche and that nothing didn't know. The thing was some strange but, probably, the doubtful look of Pious Emile brought to still speak.

"I in truth deal me with the prospecting for the gold, for which I know few about the cromite and that little that I know I have told you him and, above all I don't have, to whether to do with the prospecting and the data that draw. I really believe that the future in the north of Madagascar is not the cromite but the gold. The gold there is, and so much, while the cromite will end soon, you will see"

Otto more six fourteen there are then the smaller lenses and the signs, we say, being narrow, fifteen million certain tons. Also increasing the production to 300.000 tons the year, it is at least of it for fifty years. Pious it was not convinced of the last affirmation of Emile, but definite not to investigate, it was evident that Emile wanted to bring their attention on the gold and the interest, almost only, of Pious for the cromite you/he/she was evidently bothering him/it. Now you/he/she was saying that there was also gold in the concession of Andriamena and his/her job to the Morarano Chrome it consisted of appraising the consistence of the resources and the concentration of the precious metal.

"For now we are making alluvial prospecting in the rivers and in the streams" Emile continued "and of gold we have already found of it, but it is not anything in comparison to the layers of Mahajanga, I assure him/it to you."

Now that the discussion had become more interesting and animate, he had to be sent in Russian and Arianna it looked at both with vexed air: Pious you/he/she had stopped translating and she didn't succeed in understanding nothing of that that you/they were said. He/she saw well, however, that Emile he was bothering. "Pious, it allows to lose" it said "it is useless that we start playing to make the spies there, the gold doesn't interest us, we go away."

"The gold no, but the cromite yes" he/she answered Pious to narrow teeth. "Emile, excuses" taken back then turning himself/herself/itself to the Malagasy one "but according to her we in thing can help for a long time the Morarano Chrome in the exploitation of an open mine and on which have been done already so many investigations?"

To this point Emile, that had again started over plotting the praises of the gold of Mahajanga, brusquely responded.

"I don't know what you should do you, so much they will close soon, and then I don't see really to thing can serve to sample the cromite in the plant of enrichment really now. They will certainly tell you him, but it is a whole operation of façade, they know very well also that the future is in the gold, so much is true that they look for him/it, but of good layers don't have of it, the good layers are to Mahajanga."

The brain of Pious it started to turn to dizzy speed: as it would be that they will close soon? And then because it would be useless to sample the plant now? And the data of the surveys? Who has them? Is it true that Emile doesn't have you access? Definite that wanted us some calm to reason on what you/they had come to know in that evening, meanwhile it was not the case to subsequently bother Emile. Pious it brought the discourse on the thin sections that you/he/she had received and it said that you/they would have known him to tell at the most something the one month-old turn and that then, if the thing results interesting, you/they would have been able to do analysis both on the mineral ones and on the rock.

Emile seemed satisfied of the last words of Pious and he cleared. The conversation slipped then on less thorny matters and returned the calm after the storm. Emile adjourned Pious and Arianna on the most interesting zones in Madagascar, from a geologic and tourist point of view. Needless to say that Pious in an instant it made him a film on the development of the geoturismo in Madagascar, on the other hand that of the geoturismo, it was one little ball of his since the times of the first jobs in Greece.

They returned in hotel that was almost midnight. They decided, of commune accord, to postpone an exchange of opinions to the next day on the evening; on the other hand, he/she is known, the night brings very soon suggestion and then the next day he departed, finally, for the mine.

8

They were not the seven and the sun yet it was from a little risen on the necks of Tanà, flooding the city of a red fire as is seen only in Africa, when Franco entered the room to glasses where Pious, Arianna, Sergio and Silvana were having breakfast. It seated a croissant and a cup of tea pouring himself/herself/itself.

"I have found a big cherokee with a good driver" it started "we will be seven in everything and it is better to be comfortable, they are ten hours of trip of which the greatest part on excavated. Immediately to depart, should succeed better in taking the whole trip with the daylight, you bring only what serves you for three or four days." All quickly ended the breakfast and they reached his/her own rooms to close the baggages. Pious it put in the purse a pair of changes of linen, the old his/her k-way, a plush and the necessary one for the personal hygiene. In the backpack instead it put the tools: geologist hammer, compass, lens of enlargement, quadernetto of the notes, paper millimetrata, teams, pouches for the champions, adhesive ribbon from package, pencils, pens and pennarelli, a calculator, over naturally to his/her Titian Terzani.

They found again to the entry, where the driver waited for them that as Paul introduced him at seven and thirty o'clock. They quickly loaded the jeep and they arranged him. Silvana, that suffered the motion sickness, before, Pious and Arianna in the central seats and Franco and Sergio in those back. They put us more than mezz'ora to reach an anonymous district of outskirts disastrato as all the others where Aina waited for them, that he arranged among Pious and Arianna.

They set out along the only important road asphalted of Madagascar, the Antananarivo-Toamasina, built before by the Chinese about ten years. After the bleak outskirts and the bidonvilles that Tanàs surround, they finally started to cross a rural zone, in the hill, cultivated to splendid risaie in the terraces. They saw numerous farmers drive in the marshes seems of docile zebu. They crossed numerous villages with bricks houses and clay. Arianna made to notice to Pious that, unusual thing, the walls above the windows were all blackened ones: evidently the merinas - you/they were crossing their territory - they cooked in the house, but for some mysterious motive they didn't make use of fireplaces or other systems of draught of the smoke. Everything added, the country gave an impression of dignified poverty better than the city, and when they stopped him to the negozietto of a village to buy a pair of bottles of the good Malagasy rhum, despite the curious looks, any solicitor, seller or child covered with rags it approached the vasàs.

The morning was pleasantly fresh and a light breeze entered from the car windows while they were crossing, to no more than 60 hourly kilometers, the sinuous ribbon of asphalt very trafficked, above all from the trucks that they brought commodities from the I bring to the capital. The landscape was extremely green and you/he/she was exalted by the clear air and by the light of the tropical sun, the green of the cultivated fields and the red of the grounds lateriticis predominated. A couple of times they coasted along some handicraft factories of bricks, where enormous bricks batteries facts of the red clay, anywhere that some appeared on the surface, dried him to the sun.

The red-green bicromia of the landscape was interrupted every now and then from round hills of dark naked rock, that Pious it individualized in distance as probable basalts. The road passed to hundred meters from the foot of one of these hills, on the slope of which a swarming of busy people was perceived. A little anymore before, immense heaps of stones, divided for dimensions of the same, they were evidently the place of job of about ten boys and children that, armed with hammers of the various manner and dimensions, they shattered her. _There east the Afrique_ thought Pious, observing the strange scene and churches to Franco of thing he treated.

"They make gravel" it was the simple answer "to hand" it was the precise statement. "On the hill, the adults with martelloni and chisels detach big blocks of basalt, that are allowed to slip to the foot of the hill and then dragged to the square that we have seen before, where boys and children, in decreasing order of age, they turn the blocks into boulders, the boulders in stones and finally the stones in gravel."

_There east the Afrique, thought_ still Pious, by now almost entirely forgetful of its initial equitable intentions and solidali. Arianna tried an observation that elsewhere you/he/she would be seemed more correct but there it played anachronistic.

"But that is everything juvenile job."

"Who doesn't work he/she doesn't eat" it was the laconic answer of Franco.

Pious he/she thought that Europe of sixty years ago, where things of the kind were to the agenda, it was as a distant continent Africa.

Later around two hours they started the descent from the highland. The road boxed him in holds valleys, the curves were made narrower, the returning more frequent and the trucks started to pass more next to the jeep. Too nearby he/she thought Pious, above all after having seen one of it that dangled from a scarp with the driver quietly sat on board road.

Moramangas reached just before midday. A dusty town, where you/they would have had to abandon the road for Tamatave and to take the footstep that directed him to north toward Ambatondrazaka and the lake Alaotra.

Here it missed the thin net of places for white that had them, somehow, protected to Tanà. They stopped to have lunch in the most expensive restaurant of Moramanga, Her Coq of or, a tavern frequented above all by Chinese and by some western tourist, where they ate of the excellent ones, and above all enormous, fried frogs, accompanied by the belches of the Chinese, that so they manifested their pleasure for the local food.

After having done the full one of fuel they divided, abandoning well soon the asphalt and forwarding himself/herself/itself toward north on a wide dusty footstep. The landscape, well different from that of the highland of Tanà, it was a reddish steppe, with few trees and rare zones to brushwood. The villages that crossed were now made of huts of mud and dung of zebu with the floors in beaten earth. You/they had to have entered the territory of the Bezanozanos, it appraised Pious, giving a glance to the paper with the distribution of the etnies of Madagascar, that was on the guide that had brought from Italy. In effects the physiognomies of the people were different, as the attire and, above all, the hair style. To how much it seemed the simplest and direct way to recognize the belonging ones to an etnia it was the manner of the hair, that diversified a lot him. The Bezanozanos brought numerous small braids, often united together with the two sides of the head.

The temperature had been climbed than at least 4 or 5 degrees from the around 1300 meters Den to the around 900 that it pointed out the map to Moramanga, the sun it almost shone to the zenith, but they carefully traveled with the closed car windows. Pious you/he/she had not imagined but the more annoying companion of trip in Madagascar you/he/she would have been the dust. A thin dust redhead that penetrated anywhere and that the evening could fill the dish of the shower. That whole territory had been, once, a luxuriant forest pluviale, but you/he/she was now reduced to that dusty steppe, where it dominated the red of the ground lateritico. Where the landscape did him some enlivened the hills you/they were literally eaten by the erosive trials. Enormous red wounds cut her, at times coming until almost in the road, whose crossed you/he/she had been, evidently redrawn more times to follow the whims of the erosion.

"They are the lavakàs" Franco had said "some as the calanchis, but to exaggerated staircase, as you see. There are anywhere in Madagascar, except that in the thin band of forest pluviale that it still withstands on the oriental coast."

The continuous bumps, the dust that entered from every crack and that it became fog ogniqualvolta they crossed another vehicle, the devastated territory and the poverty of the villages you/they were withdrawing Pious and Arianna. There was not anything fascinating or adventurous.

As usual The solution came from Franco, that knew well that type of trip. It threw out the bottles of rhum and it started to make her to turn. Pious it was not a lover of the superalcolicis, but that rhums it was really excellent and it gave a light numbness, that helped to digest the monotony and the bleakness of the trip.

Toward the five, with the already low sun on the horizon, reached the lake Alaotra, only to discover that the lake in the last years was withdrawn and, today, its banks were to around 30 km from the road. A plain remained of dry mud that the road crossed on a bank, where it also passed the railroad that the cromite brought to the I bring of Tamatave.

Paul on application of Franco stopped really here the jeep, where the nothing and the desolation reached the apex.

"Standstill telephone" Franco informed, explaining that that place was an island in the telephone net. The field, lost after Moramanga, it marked in fact, almost miraculously, three nicks on the jail cell. _There east the Afrique_ , once more, he/she thought Pious.

"If you are fortunate and you perhaps have a good telephone him he/she succeeds in also taking the line to Morarano, but I would not swear there, for which who wants to phone it is better that I/you/he/she now do him/it: for a few days we will be isolated."

Pious it didn't worry him about to phone, it didn't have a good relationship with the instrument and it often regretted the beautiful old times of the fixed telephone. It found aberrant the idea to be attainable, always and however: The connected man! You saw how a kind of automaton full of connections plug in. After all the jail cell was a monster that Orwell had not even succeeded in imagining.

It was not able certain to imagine that that same evening the TG1 would have given news of a Cessna fallen in Madagascar with on board two Italian that worked in the field of the stone. Enough news to send in panic relatives and friends.

Pious it went to photograph the diesel train, load of cromite, that passed really at that time, turned then him and was stricken from the surreal scene. A footstep in the nothing, kilometers of dry mud and four whites, hopelessly attached to the civilization of the communication, that you/they called house, with two Malagasy that waited them, apparently patient, perhaps annoyed.

Moraranos reached to the sunset. Here a pleasant surprise: the road returned to be asphalted.

"You/they have made her asphalt those of the Morarano Chrome" Franco explained "they pass us the trucks that the cromite brings - stab here to Morarano - to be loaded then on the wagons and to reach Tamatave in train. If you/he/she had had to take the whole trip with the trucks you/they would also have asphalted the road from Moramanga to here, but since it doesn't serve him.

The hard law of the profit, thought already already, Pious. If you don't have anything of profit you are surrendered to yourself. And even it is all right also you, at times to be had been sitting for centuries on an enormous oil layer is not a great advantage. To try, to believe, to ask to the irakenis.

Pious it went up again on the jeep dipped in his/her thoughts geopolitici. They still missed two hours of comfortable road asphalted for Brieville, that would have crossed to the dark, being the sunset in Madagascar but brief. After a brief standstill to buy water, you/they were divided that it already did dark.

Sergio however, after having oddly been silent for good part of the trip, suddenly it found again all of his/her loquacity. Approaching himself/herself/itself to Brieville perhaps started to smell the cromite, done it is that it started to make a series of technical questions and geologiche to Pious and Arianna. Fortunately the meeting with Emile had furnished a series of useful news to Pious, that obviously put her in field as they were flour of its sack.

"I have inquired on the mine Sergio. First of all it is an alone. It is an open pit, for which you/they dig to opened sky a hole, that deepens him to terraces. The trucks go down long ramps until on the fund, where the cromite, shattered by the explosives, you/he/she is loaded."

"This I know him/it, Pious" Sergio responded some become impatient "and then the mine I have already seen her."

Pious he/she thought that you/he/she had to repair the draught, Sergio evidently knew well few of geology but something of mining engineering. Definite to pass geologiches to the more matters, on the other hand Sergio you/he/she was asking him:

"What I don't understand is because the cromite is really here, in this place forgotten by God. Could not you/he/she be from some other part? Even we find her/it and we take there a beautiful mining license."

"Really, the fact is that the cromite is not that you are found at random, but only in certain geologic contexts, where you/he/she could have formed in the past" taken back Pious "here we are in the most ancient rocks of the world, those of the period Archeano, which means that they have more than two million and a half of years."

"Straight! And is it for this that is the cromite?"

"For this, but I am there not only, also chrome you more young people. However in the archeano the terrestrial crust was very thin and in the street of formation, so the rocks of the mantle could come in surface, or near the surface, very more easily and, it looks at case, the cromite is a mineral of the mantle. Not at all it is so refractory not. Refractoriness is given by its resistance to the elevated temperatures that it allows her to withstand in the mantle that is very more heat of the crust."

Pious, as always when you/he/she had to speak of geology to who nothing didn't know, it tried not to use too much a complex terminology neither geologic concepts of difficulty understanding, simplified too much perhaps and a petrologo or a mineralogist would be aghast. It knew of it of petrologi and mineralogists with the foul smell under the nose. If there was a category that really it didn't bear it was that of the pedants that the mouth of incomprehensible words to their interlocutor is filled, rather they use her really because they are incomprehensible. They don't want to make to be understood but only to show off their knowledge and to intimidate who listens.

"However in the crust Archeana to find the cromite we must find rocks of the mantle or rocks that originate from the mantle. And the easiest way to reach the crust from the mantle is to melt and to produce a magma that goes up again and it infiltrates him in the crust. For which chrome her we will find her to you in rocks magmatiche derived by the mantle as the peridotitis and the pirossenitis, and in fact, to how much I have read, chrome you to her of the region of Andriamena they are found in these rocks. If these rocks are not there, useless to start looking for chrome you to her."

"Interesting, and in Italy we don't have of these rocks that bring us the cromite? I would like to open a beautiful mine under house and to send to that country these Malagasy ones."

"I am sorry it, but the only cromite Italian it is that that I have studied me for my doctorate: it is found in Val Vigezzo and I assure you that the punishment is not worth to open us a mine."

"Sinned, we owe really to come then in culo to the wolves."

"Speaking of as to find the cromite" taken back Pious, that had so found the way to talk to Sergio without mentioning to the meeting with Emile "once you individualize the proper rocks it is not that the cromite immediately comes out, it usually constitutes slow of some meter of thickness and even some hundred meters of extension, in bodies that can also stretch for many kilometers. It needs to make prospecting of detail and I think that here something has done, it would be interesting, and even also very useful, to be able to have that data."

"That type of data I am? We can ask to Sam Fox."

"Beh, the survey of ground usually does before him, that a detailed geologic paper produces and then the surveys. With the data of the surveys they do him some sections geologiche, in practice of the vertical sections of the subsoil, on which geology is drawn in section note. According to me of the data of the kind they must have for strength, rather it would be beautiful to be able to see really the carrots of rock of the surveys."

"If you want we can ask to Sam Fox, I don't understand to thing can serve for improving the product but if you care.

Certainly that it cared, you want to put to have available all the data of prospecting? Sergio didn't have idea of as the university it worked, but Pious he/she knew well that had to produce scientific publications on international magazines, and, to do this, needed all the available geologic data. Over naturally to a job of study of the data, analysis of laboratory, interpretation and modeling that, it didn't probably have anything to, whether to do with the necessary job to improve the quality of the cromite. From days Pious he was asking if it were possible to reconcile the two things: the pure science of the publications, with that applied to the mining technology. Meanwhile more data it had and you/he/she would have been better.

Brievilles reached just before the eight, sighting before already her mezz'ora, only point of light in the middle of the black pitch of the African night. It was not possible to make an idea of the dimensions, or of the aspect, of the inhabited area in the night. The road illumination was reduced to the bone and solo on the principal street; the electric energy, lacking a net, it was really a luxury, was produced in fact from a gas-oil generator to exorbitant costs. The first impact was puzzling however: in the obscurity villette were seen in masonry and well kept gardens. A happy island in a sea of dark and poverty? To Pious the telefilms of the series came to mind 'The prisoner': a clean and perfect village in a remote place in the nothing, a probably isolates. It isolates that was in reality a jail from which it was not possible to run away. Brieville seemed a closed microcosm, isolated in the steppe. They were probably in force you proper laws, inside, with the mining company to be like Great Brother. In the meantime the jeep was stopped in front of an attractive cottage of discreet dimensions. They went down and they crossed an avenue of entry flanked by a well taken care of garden. On the left, an empty swimming pool and evidently in disuse for a long time. Also the luxury had a limit in a place as that. Finally an enormous parable satellitare: the television had already, reached also Brieville.

To the entry it welcomed them Romeo, together with a grim keeper that wore a ridiculous yellow hat of raw wool. The frank language was French, but well soon they discovered that only the executives of the company spoke him/it, the others, included the keeper, they knew only some word of it. Their rooms were accompanied to, on the side of the cottage, that worked from guesthouse for the guests of the mine. Three rooms, one for Franco and Sergio, one for Silvana and Arianna and one, the teacher's privilege, for Pious. Aina and the driver had disappeared: perhaps guests of someone in the village?

The room was spacious - certain the space didn't miss and nothing didn't cost to Brieville - an old bed and too much soft but decent, a tavolino and a chair. Everything added could go worse. And worse it went, in the bath, where a bucket there was full of water that served for washing him, but there was no running water. You/they were kindly informed that for the bodily needs you/they would have been able to use an external gabbiotto where, when the pomp was not broken at that time as, the privilege you/he/she could be had to throw the water.

"I thought very worse, above all after the villages that we have crossed" Arianna said to Pious "we hope only that there are not too much big bugs and, above all, that don't walk us in face tonight."

"Rather we must find where to give us water. How do I do, with my tonnage, to take the shower with that contained in that kind of bucket?"

"Already you are not, really of Malagasy ransom, he/she thinks however that we are in two and of bucket in bath it is a solo of it."

At that time Sergio appeared in the external corridor, on which you/they leaned out the three rooms, and where Pious and Arianna was speaking.

"Boys take you the shower with calm that he/she eats among a hour, here you/they have not started to cook until you/they have not seen us, we are not to the Grand Hotel. Then I make you see the TV, in the room from lunch there is the console that the whole system commands. Practically all, to Brieville, they look at the channel that is selected from here. Franco and I put always him the cloths Italian, so at some thighs are looked to the wind and of veil of it and even they start to learn Italian."

But then it is really the Great Brother of Orwell there is also the centralized television and all they look at what wants the big head, who knows if also here the televisions are television cameras of control, you/he/she came to think to Pious.

They found again to supper toward the nine, extremely hungry: a discreet rice with the vegetables and a good farm chicken, probably to the chrome, seen where it rummaged, the all in abundant portions.

After supper, while Franco and Sergio had a good time making zapping satellitare and Silvana, that you/he/she had suffered from motion sickness the whole day, he/she already slept, Pious and Ariannas went out on the back of the guesthouse to taste the true dark, that that us European we are forgotten there by now. The moon and the weak light of the entry he/she was not seen by the other side of the house it didn't come until there. Few footsteps were enough, down for the light slant, to feel completely lost.

"It looks how much stars" Arianna said

"It looks rather where you put the feet" he/she answered Pious, "it does dark I crush" and it lowered the look, only to discover that it did so dark not to succeed in seeing his/her own feet.

"Perhaps it is the case that goes to take a torch" it said Pious turning himself/herself/itself and recognizing only the outline of the house from the absence of stars.

Pious it passed the rest of the evening on the back of the house to recognize the southern constellations with the help of the minuscule stellar atlas that you/he/she had taken in loan from his/her brother astrofilo. It was his/her first trip in the south hemisphere and for a long time you/he/she had desired to see the Cross of the South and the Clouds of Magellano.

9

Pious you/he/she was trying to send down some bit of a shapeless mass of rice and meat of zebu, that they had been served for breakfast, when Paul appeared with Romeo. The two patiently attended that the gruppetto of whites finished eating. At eight o'clock they climbed on the jeep to go to the operational center of the Morarano Chrome. It was a low building in cement, built on a dusty square out of the village, but also well away from the real mine, that Pious it was anxious to visit. Owed do a beautiful instead po,' of antechamber before being introduced to the Manager of the mine, a Malagasy separate, of indefinable age, that expenses some word of welcome. Franco had warned Pious, in precedence, that the manager others you/he/she was not that a man of the minister of the mines, sent to the mine, a few years before, to discount better not one some punishment for an identified discourtesy of which was stain in the tall political spheres. The manager handed to Pious a visit ticket that you/he/she recited: Dott. Roger Manalavoitra, general manager of the mines of Brieville. As always in these occasions, Pious it was intended to make some visit tickets, that you/he/she had never had. What to write us? Pious Geco, researcher and, at times, teacher? No, it was not all right. To that point he/she thought that it was the case to listen to the general manager, instead whether to lose in his/her thoughts, as always. I distort alarm. In effects the manager didn't say anything of the mine, that owed well to constitute his/her flower to the buttonhole and the pride of the office of the mines. He/she offered a glass of rhum, that all drank despite the a little proper time, and he/she invited them to visit mine and plant, driven by Romeo and respectively delegating the description of the activity to the manager of the mine and the manager of the plant.

Returned to the open one it came them meeting, he/she is not known well from where, Aina, that he/she invited them to make a photo memory in front of the entry of the official center where it camped, on the wall, the name of the company and, of side to the entry, a Malagasy flag. Pious he remembered that it absolutely had to find for his/her collection of flags one of it. It told him/it Paul, that promised to help him/it. Franco had told to Pious that, during the world ones of kick in Germany, with Italy that advanced to great footsteps toward the ending, taken by patriotic pride, you/he/she had decided to give him an Italian flag. Not having found her/it from any part, you/he/she had bought a Malagasy flag and you/he/she had personally cut out her and sewn for forming the Italian flag.

"You know, a job of the kind I didn't trust me to make him/it do from any Malagasy, it missed us that he came to know and that they accused me of outrage to the flag."

While Paul went off the photo, Pious you/he/she appraised the ricomposizione of the Italian flag from that Malagasy, that was constituted by a white vertical strip near the auction and two horizontal strips, green and redhead. In effects with a flag in the classical relationship of 3 to 2 and with a white strip that occupied the first bystander of the flag the ricomposizione you/he/she would have been perfect. It was really this way probably, it was intended to ask later to Franco if the ricomposizione had been perfect.

You/he/she was dissuaded by his/her thoughts by Silvana, that had lingered to smoke a cigarette and you/he/she was apostrophizing him/it with hoarse voice:

"Pious, but to that I/you/he/she think? We go, that the other ones have already turned the angle"

"We go? Where?"

"To see the laboratories, but where did you have the head one minute ago? Bushels thinking about someone? Of Aina you have fallen in love?"

Pious definite that, if you/he/she had answered that you/he/she was thinking about the proportions of the colors in the flags Malagasy and Italian, you/he/she would not have been understood. Better passing for stupid.

"Nothing, nothing, was lost in thought an instant, we go."

The two reached the group in a second adjacent to building the first one, but where everything was more dirt and falling. Romeo was showing a chemical laboratory, where the disorder and the dirt it reigned. It was evident however that it was a laboratory that, unlike that of the university to Tanà, was, somehow mysterious, working. They did analysis of the cromite for by damp, loosening the rock in acids. An antiquated method and, above all, inaccurate, but that it surely represented a success in a lost place as that. To make to arrive the reagents and the test-tubes had to already represent not a logistic problem of little account.

Arianna approached him and, in a low voice it told him:

"But Pious, according to you the analyses that do here can be reliable? And the mineralogy? The chemistry of the mineral ones? How do you/they do to know all the necessary data for settare the plant of enrichment?"

"And that I know, mah, waits for to see everything, even we turn the angle and there is perfectly an efficient electronic microscope."

"That you do, you take me for the fondellis? But if these don't even have the eyes to cry."

"You say? But done two count! If they sell 250.000 tons a year of cromite, we put to 180 dollars the ton, they make 45 million dollars a year, it seems me that the eyes to cry have them, and also the lips to smile, wanting."

"And then because, according to you, do they hold a laboratory under these conditions?"

"There can be thousand motives and, according to me, the first one is that those that count in the company are all political ones that they don't understand anything of it, bar it doesn't rub you of it nothing, of the technical problems and still of those geologic."

"You say that the earningses are divided up to the last drop leaving the assignment to hold standing to the true technicians the mine without laboratories, analysis and the whole rest?"

"Yes, something of the kind, even if that paper with about ten surveys says that some money has run over them, at least in past."

"But don't they understand that an accurate study doing and doing spend some in search you/they could earn very more?"

Was Arianna still an idealist, did he/she think Pious, and resumptions "Because, from they understand him/it to us? University goes downhill and the privacies also try to bring their profits home investing the less possible in search. Imagine here. He/she knows me that each tries to squeeze the hen from the gold eggs, giving her something to eat the less possible: a miracle that has not killed her yet"

The brief visit in the laboratories was finished, Pious definite to start some to sound the ground. You turned to Romeo that, fortunately he/she succeeded in expressing him in a difficult English:

"But the mineralogy of the layer done not study her/it? Don't make thin sections? How do you do to know which mineral they are in partnership to the cromite?"

For all answer Romeo conducted them to a cassettiera from which it extracted a series of small containers in plastics. It opened one of them and it extracted a thin section of it.

Finally Pious and Arianna could be moved on their ground. The thin section is a foil of rock cut to the thickness of around 20 microns and climbed on on a slide. To that thickness the greatest part of the mineral ones they result transparent and you/they can be studied to the microscope.

Arianna intervened:

"Ah, but do you study her/it the mineralogy then. but where are the microscopes? I have not seen of it.

"Already, the microscopes" Romeo responded "these thin sections I have sent her to do me, to Tanà, in university, naturally I have also asked a microscope to be able to study her, but that has never arrived, I study her so."

And, smiling, it made the gesture to bring aloft the thin section and to observe her/it in controluce on I break down him/it some window.

"I have understood" it intervened Pious "the geology here an important granché is not considered."

"Before it was different" Romeo taken back "in effects before the crisis of the '95 there were also here a laboratory of preparation of the sections thin and different microscopes to reflected light, not only transmitted. Then for three years the mine has been firm, Josephine and the other ones have made a miracle to hold in efficiency the fittings of enrichment, but the laboratory has gone to downfall. The microscopes have also disappeared. From when you/they have reopened nothing has not been spent for the prospecting and for the laboratory anymore, everybody they are waited that, he/she will be closed again sooner or later, probably forever, and then they don't want to spend us money, he goes on with the old data and to light of nose."

Who was Josephine? A woman? What does it hold standing the machineries? Pious you/he/she was done the idea that in the Malagasy society the women were not technicians of mine. The disappeared microscopes didn't catch him/it, considering that you/they had succeeded in making to disappear a whole railroad, binary inclusive. Definite however that the most urgent thing was to take advantage of the moment to ask some mysterious surveys seen on the paper.

"Then you/they have also stopped making surveys?he/she " asked to Romeo.

"Yes, it doesn't do him void than prospecting, apart for the gold"

And this was a news how Pious it already knew.

"But the old data? The papers of detail? The sections geologiche? And the carrots of the surveys? Have I/you/they been made kilometers of surveys and has nobody ever studied the carrots of rock?"

Romeo looked Pious with detective air. In effects you/he/she was allowed to escape that he/she knew that you/they had been made kilometers of surveys, but you/he/she had known him entirely in the informal street from Emile and not in by official. After an instant Romeo seemed to decide that, if Pious he/she knew him/it, someone of Morarano Chrome had to have say him/it down to you to Tanà.

"The surveys were made before the '95 and the carrots were studied to the epoch, I was not still there. However then the carrots have been suited to Tanà."

To Tanà? And because, if there was a laboratory to the mine? And then because to Tanà you/they had not spoken to you of it?

"However" Romeo was continuing, and Pious it made an effort not to lose in his/her thoughts "today afternoon, or tomorrow if we don't do in time, I make you see papers and sections."

With this last affirmation it seemed to want to close the discourse for the time being, and it set out out, followed from Pious and Arianna. They reached Sergio and Silvana that were smoking. Franco had disappeared. It reappeared shortly after from behind the angle of the building, it was clear thing you/he/she had gone to do, kept account of the conditions of the baths, anywhere in Madagascar.

They set out with the jeep for the road asphalted recently. After few minutes they reached a great spiazzo in beaten earth where one they were found it weighs, evidently working from long time, a gas pump and a shed of cement that it acted from shop with, scattered around everything, the rests of who knows how much means of transport, primarily truck and bulldozer. They stopped to do the full one of fuel. A gruppetto of five or six miners he/she sat to the shade in the middle of stains of oil and rests of tires. Pious he/she wondered what you/they were waiting, they seemed I suspended in once indefinite. It was not the first time that tried this impression as an indefinite expansion of the time, that it was an attitude of the Malagasy ones, so intimately connatural in them, that wore her/it as a suit. They were often seen people that were there, as suspended in the time, in the middle of the nothing, it was not understood to do, or to wait, thing. They were certainly the European temporal categories not to be suitable and to give that sense of straniamento. Did thing do us there? But because it always needed to have something to do? What did you/they wait? Why if it doesn't do him nothing is he however in attended that something happens? Here: this missed completely to those people. They almost seemed a part of the landscape, sat out of their huts, perched on a tree or simply lost in the nothing of the steppe. They were incomprehensible, really because they didn't do anything and they had the air not to wait for anything. Perhaps them, in that waste of time the time they lived him/it and they tasted him/it, while us, always with something to be done, always with the anguish to know what times are, the time we feared him/it and we tried to exorcize him/it.

Why did it always choose the least proper moments for filosofeggiare? Arianna was telling him something.

"Pious you have seen to the left there that rocky breakthroughs? What will you/they be? Certainly that this laterite covers everything with a red patina, but those are breakthroughs of sure and, according to me, they are different from those that you/they were seen in the cut where we have parked before."

Arianna was more careful than him to the geology, you/they were crossing a hilly zone now, everything was red and the end sand lateritica penetrated anywhere, however the relief was enough uneven to be made to appear on the surface some spurs of rock here and there. Pious the knowledge of the time was lost, you/they had left the spiazzo of the gas station attendant from five, perhaps ten minutes. Here you/he/she was distracted from the philosophy and in an instant, relapses in his/her habits from European, he/she wanted to know how much time had passed, he/she wanted to know the minutes. The Malagasy miners would have laughed him in face or, simply you/they would have looked at him/it amazed, without understanding. Yet the west had infiltrated to Brieville, with its rhythms and its times, those of the schedules of job, of the consignment of the cromite, of the television. The Malagasy ones seemed to offer as an atavistic so passive resistance.

Was still lost!

"But have you seen them or no? If turn yourself still see them! But to thing you are thinking?"

Arianna brought him/it again to the reality and the geology. The reality, highest western supponenza of us, decides what reality must be and we is convinced that, instead of inventing her/it we, are objective there and, simply we know her/it to us to recognize better than other people. Yet the nature is made of long endless silences.

Pious he turned, he/she saw in distance the rocky breakthroughs and he/she answered to Arianna:

"Yes, of sure they are breakthroughs, of thing the devil knows him/it, it always happens so when he works to the foreign countries, especially in places as these: you make a trip of a week and the true time of job on the breakthrough, within the week, you/he/she can be two or three hours, even five if it suits you. There is the logistics, the trip, the dead times, the fact that is always someone with you and you must be to his/her times. I would like to have the jeep, a beautiful GPS, a detailed beautiful paper and to be able to freely turn for a week, to see what it appears on the surface, to make a minimum of survey sample with criterion. He/she knows me instead that we must try to exploit to the best the time to the mine, that who knows if we can return there in the next days."

The landscape was made more uneven, on the left a rather deep and steep valley was realized, on the right a small crest of about ten meters, parallel to the road, it removed the view. All of a sudden the auto diverted on the left and stopped him after about fifty meters on a small excavated spiazzo. Romeo was telling Sergio that from there you/they could see a panning from the tall one of the mine.

They went down from the jeep and, excited as two geologists in front of an unknown mine, fell him toward the limit of the spiazzo, where a steep scarp was realized.

The glimpse was impressive: the mine had to be deep at least 70 meters and the terraces walls they were so steep that the fund was not seen. The road of access went down to spiral cutting one to one in diagonal the tall and narrow terraces. On all it dominated the red of the dust of laterite but, after the first minutes of pure and simple admiration of that extraordinary hole - because yes, at the end of a hole he treated, even if of considerable dimensions - the geologist started to appear on the surface and Pious you/he/she started to read in those walls a history. In the tall part it was realized that the rock, covered by a patina of red laterite, it was also however it reddish. This, together with the sweet forms of the erosion out of the mine, it allowed to realize rocks type granitoide. From the second terrace down the rock was darker instead, of a color between the greenish one and the grey one, dirtied by the dust redhead of laterite: probably peridotiti or pirosseniti. He/she was not seen, however, from any part the very beloved black of the cromite, that had to appear on the surface in the deepest part, not visible from that point. Arianna was already going off some photos, Pious it imitated her/it, churches then 5 minutes, that were granted above all immediately him by Sergio and Silvana, that lit up their inevitable cigarettes, apparently not very stricken from the panorama.

Pious it extracted the notebook of country and it started to take note of what you/he/she had observed, it also served a squirt to pencil of the mine as that point, but it was really a bad draftsman. He/she remembered the books of country of his/her teachers of the old school, with accurate sketches and aesthetically taken care of also. They sat in front of an important breakthrough and they drew for winds thirty minutes. There were fortunately now the digital cameras; to that epoch, at the most, the most fortunate had the cars instant polaroid, stuff already from dinosaurs. Today's students didn't even know what they were.

A further examination of the walls of the mine revealed the presence of important zones of fracture and some clear dicchis, that you/they cut the other angle rocks varying. It absolutely had to see them more from near to understand what they were.

They took back the jeep and they returned on the road, after a couple of minutes the asphalt disappeared, and after a curve accented to the left they were found again again on the edge of the mine, to around 300 meters in line of air from the preceding point. Only that here the road started to go down inside that kind of infernal cavern. They set out along the descent.

Sergio was impatient to feel the opinion of Pious on that mine:

"That it seems of it? Is it beautiful big truth? They are more than twenty years that you/they work us, only I would want to know why the cromite there is alone here, according to me if they make other holes they still find of it."

"Yes yes, it is beautiful big" he/she answered Pious "and then the walls it is impressive they are very steep, the terraces are usually made more breadths. Above all toward the fund it seems to become even more steep."

The jeep proceeded plain, the road was ruined by the continuous passage of truck, he kept on going down. All of a sudden, on the fund, it appeared a little pond and a something that Pious it interpreted as a pomp that inhaled water from the same little pond. Still some meter and it appeared a small probe with around three or four miners. Really, at that time the probe began working, breaking the unreal silence of that place and lifting a cloud of dust.

They reached the fund and they stopped him on the edge of the little pond, to about twenty meters from the probe. He/she finally saw her/it, the cromite was there, a beautiful massive lens really on the fund: in a Pious instant you/he/she had recovered the backpack and the hammer and him you/he/she was directing toward the breakthrough.

It came them meeting a Malagasy moustached, a true rarity. On the fifty years, an efficient air, worn-out and filthy jeans and a shirt whose original color was not possible to guess. Romeo greeted him/it with the due respect to a head and introduced him/it to the group as the engineer Ranakotsobo, manager of the mine. To that Pious point you/he/she had already lost the account of how many managers you/he/she had already met and who knows how much it still had to meet of it: the general manager, the commercial manager, the manager of Brieville, the manager of the mine, the manager of the plant of enrichment. Beh, one more one less, we also greet this, he/she thought, handing the hand to the engineer. With all these managers how many the forehand will be? He/she still thought Pious, turning a look to the three Malagasy dirtied of oil and mud that fumbled around the probe.

Meanwhile the manager had started to speak, you/he/she was the case to pay attention. It glorified the technical abilities, that had allowed to dig that deep hole to the moment well 75 meters from the plain country. Pious it looked around him for the first time and you/he/she had suffered the feeling that that hole pits a trap: the walls of the terraces were too much steep, especially in the deepest part, masses rocky ax they impended oppressive, it seemed that from a moment to the other some colossal block would be detached for falling on them. It owed us for strength being something of wrong, some error. Yes, there was of sure, the look of Pious it stopped him on the northeastern side. Perhaps northeastern, it was not easy to orient. Therefore it was morning, the sun had to be toward east, however they were in the south hemisphere for which it turned to north. It owed therefore to be to northeast. Yes, the tall sun as solo among the two tropics, sprouted from the edge of that proper crater in the direction toward which you/he/she was looking: you/he/she had to be northeast. Just on that side the mine, from the half down he/she didn't introduce terraces but a surface tilted irregular, with blocks, sand, gravel, of everything, and it finished to the edge of the little pond formed him on the fund. A landslide there was not doubt. The mine had been projected badly and there had been a landslide.

The manager had ended his/her brief explanation and Pious if the lost era completely. What to do, thing to ask? And if you/he/she had asked something that the manager had explained two minutes before? Better leaving to lose and to get by, be influence better rather even. Churches, with the help of Franco, if you/they could make a turn and to pick up some champions. Arianna was already drawing on the notebook the cardinal points, so that to give a minimum of spatial sense to the sampling. Kindly the manager gave his/her consent, but you/he/she not only directed him to a full box of utensils, and you/he/she extracted, from some ravine of his, a paper. To Pious they shone the eyes: it was the paper of the mine staircase 1:500, a good detail. However, unlike that that Emile had shown him, this didn't bring the location of the surveys.

"You can use this, hold her/it pure, tomorrow you make then even me know what you think of it."

Said this the manager left them and returned to the survey that, shortly taken back, producing a deafening noise that resounded and you/he/she boomed on the walls, the communication making difficult. When the drill started over the rock, it was also formed a cloud of dust that raised him right, it widened and it reverted diluted some anywhere. The three miners and the manager, imperturbable, they devoted him to the operations of perforation being always less than five meters away from the drill, absorbed in the cloud of dust, that turned them into shades and ghosts to their eyes, without bonnets or mask. There it was certainly normal, and it was normal to do this for a dollar a day.

The group divided him, Sergio and Silvana estranged the more possible from the source of noise and dust and they lit up the inevitable cigarettes, Paul sheltered in the jeep and the geologists, Pious, Arianna, Aina, Franco and Romeo, directed him toward the lens of cromite on the fund of I dig him/it. They were to no more than ten meters from the probe, that was evidently piercing a mine hole, where the explosive would have been situated to make to jump a spur of cromite.

It was really a beautiful lens, around fifteen meters width in plant and more than twenty-five meters length in breakthrough. Pious it opened the paper and, after having made the point and recognized the principal elements of the mine, it put the index on the point that their position pointed out.

"It looks" it said turned to Arianna "this lens of cromite is marked in paper, you/he/she must be this orange barrato, drawn to pencil"

"Ago' to see. Yes in effects it is here, the form is his and also the orientation. However is it the only orange barrato that is on the paper, do you want to say that the cromite is here all?"

"Yes, it is the first thing to which I have also thought. Is it a beautiful lens, but how many tons will you/they be? The datum of the depth misses us, then we go even to see what the rock is above shattered course from the drill. However we admit, that I/you/he/she am thick as wide, so, in first hypothesis, they are 25x15x15 meters, that it does 3750 for halves himself that it is 1875. How much does it do?"

Arianna that knew the strange methods of mental calculation of Pious you/he/she had taken note of the two figures on the notebook.

"Ago 5625 meters cubes" it said.

"We put to 4 tons to the meter cube" taken back Pious "it does few more than 22.000 tons. This lens him enough for few more than one month. you/he/she must be other of it."

"Even it is not a lens" Arianna said.

"In effects we don't know anything of this layer, I don't believe both as those Greek where the cromite is in slow, also great, but discontinuous; casomai will resemble more to those South Africans where the cromite forms continuous and horizontal beds that are extended for about ten kilometers."

"However chrome you to her South Africans I am proterozoiche and these are archeane."

"Yes, also this is true, vabbé we allow to lose the lucubrations, we will have time to do of it, we now try to exploit here the time to the mine. Geology speaks, who knows that we don't understand as the things they are. We take a pair of champions of the massive lens and then we give around a glance"

Arianna threw out of his/her backpack hammer and plastic pouches.

"There would be to be us a week here inside, to notice and to sample, is very beautiful"

"Yes, certain" it still replied Pious "unless I/you/he/she don't collapse on us all. But have you seen that steep walls? And that landslide that he/she almost takes a quarter of the mine? And you/he/she must not be so old, it grows us above as soon as some lock of grass. According to me you/he/she has come down no more than ten years ago, perhaps also less, kept account that we are to the tropics and the vegetation grows in hurry."

At that time Pious him made account that Franco had gotten further, you/he/she seemed same looking at something on the flat fund next to the probe, that was stopped in the meantime. Aina, was now instead a step away from him, it evidently tried to understand something of their conversation. Pious the he turned, always in his bad French, saying her that it was a very beautiful cromite and that they wanted to sample her/it, she could give a hand to Arianna, so he/she saw how they are made the samplings.
"We take a champion to the nucleus and two to the edges?Arianna " said.

"It is all right, remembered the photos." Pious he/she knew that you/he/she could trust Arianna, it was surely more methodic than him rather, that he often forgot some photos and, surely he/she wrote all the data on the notebook in messier way of his/her dottoranda. Definite therefore to begin alone the patrol, in attended that Arianna and Aina finished sampling.

Definite to begin from the lower part making a turn to 360 degrees of the inferior wall of the last step.

They were pirosseniti, in beds slightly tilted, thick from some decimeter to a pair of meters with, alternate sometimes, thin beds of peridotite. The beds were deepened toward northeast with an inclination of around 12 degrees. It was this the response of the compass.

In few more than a hour, Pious and Ariannas patrolled the whole low part of the mine and the portion of tall part crossed from the road of link among the terraces. They observed, smartellavanos, took notes on the notebook, they photographed, they sampled. The everything successions industriously from a surprise Aina that, evidently you/he/she had never assisted to an operation of the kind.

To a Pious line he stopped, sitting himself/herself/itself on a big rock fallen from who knows where:

"You have put in paper all the positions, Arianna?"

"Yes, Pious, we have taken 14 of them, I have also listed her in the notebook"

"Ago' some to see, please."

Arianna passed the paper to Pious, which he dipped in the reading of the data just taken. It was not easy to reconstruct to mind the surfaces beginning from the positions, but for Pious it was a job of routine, already made hundreds of times. In his/her mind a three-dimensional picture of the layer was formed, beginning from the few data brought in paper. After some minutes of reflection it still turned him to Arianna.

"These bodies have a preferential orientation but I are very deformed, the cromite is surely then a lens, impossible that continue for a long time, I believe that there are not wrong of very to appraise 22.000 tons, can be at the most 30.000, not more."

"Then I am really put badly, but don't have the air to close among a couple of months, that he/she wants to say?"

"Who knows" concluded Pious "we will discover him/it, perhaps."

You/they were directing himself/herself/itself toward the terraces of the tall part, when you/they were recalled by a mighty whistle. It was Franco, a dot after all to the mine. They saw him/it sbracciarsi and to climb on the jeep together with the others. The granted time had evidently expired. With the backpacks gotten heavy by about twenty champions, Pious, Arianna and Aina directed him to the point in which the excavated road leaned out to the mine. There they seated to wait for the jeep that slowly salivates. Under of them the whole mine stretched him to the dazzling light of the sun of midday. Geology had spoken, but it had more place questions that furnished answers: of certain that mine had something strange, who knows that Sergio he was inserting in some trouble.

The jeep stopped him and Romeo and Paul went down for helping to load the champions. When they departed, Pious it turned him to give a last look to the mine. An enormous hole in the middle of a lost steppe in one of the poorest and isolated Countries in Africa. We are really in the hole of the culo of the world, we hope not to end in the merda, he/she thought Pious.

All had lunch together with the guesthouse with chicken and mashed potatoes of potatoes. At fourteen o'clock they were again already in footstep, direction plant of enrichment. They reached him/it in few minutes, crossing a road excavated under discreet conditions. They stopped to the shade of a big silos. They went down from the auto and a worker, that you/he/she was evidently waiting for them forewarned, it came them meeting and it supplied them of caschetti yellow antinfortunistici. Noise was deafening, in front of them a big mill to steel spheres slowly rotated, on the left a tangled series of ribbons transported sand of cromite. Romeo made them pass under one of the ribbons conveyors. They appeared some staircases of metal that salivate in a tangle of pipes, cables and putrelle. They crossed in single file a narrow gallery of metal. On the left, some dirty glasses allowed to glimpse an office. Shortly after Romeo introduced them through a porticina in aluminum in that same office. Inside it waited them for Josephine, the manager of the laverie, as the Malagasy ones they called, in French, the plant of enrichment of the sand of cromite. A Mrs on the forty, or perhaps fifty, as to give an age to the Malagasy ones? They usually seemed more young people than that that were, therefore perhaps on the fifty. Thick build, small and thin eyes, but that they looked you at right in face, taut hair all to the back in a bun on the nape. You introduced without so many what is suitable - in the office noise was still strong but not deafening and you/he/she could be talked to almost normal volume - putting however in evidence the fact that was engineer. Who knows how much preconceived they weighed on an African woman that directed a plant as that in Africa.

Josephine explained in two words that the laverie went up again a first years '70 and you/he/she had been installed from French. Despite the numerous retouches, the reparations and the variations in the flow, the plant was substantially the same: antiquated, kept together more with the imagination that with the engineering, but working. In degree to produce more than 6000 tons a sand's month assembled of cromite. It was clear that the laverie was the flower to the buttonhole of Josephine, it was fierce of it, he/she probably took care of her/it as it was one child of his. Who knows if it had family, he/she thought Pious. But definite immediately that that question derived from the preconceived his/her antifemministis: if you/he/she had been a man would you/he/she have wondered the same thing?

Josephine offered him to conduct them to make a turn of the laverie and the other plant, that to liquid heavy, that produced 15000 tons a month of cromite in lumpy or pebbles of superior dimensions to the 4 centimeters. The visit almost lasted two hours, during which the thick group of seven people visited the whole plant beginning from the square where the trucks unloaded the cromite coming from the mine, always producing deafening noises that the communication made extremely difficult. Pious it didn't feel him to his/her ease as in the mine, the fittings of enrichment were not certain his strong, it had only vague theoretical ideas on as you/they were done or they worked. Fundamentally the cromite, in rocks of big dimensions accumulated in a square, you/he/she was introduced with the bulldozers in a crusher that grinded her/it. Of the big sieves, then they separated the pebbles of superior dimensions to the 4 centimeters, that went to the plant to liquid, heavy, from the portion to inferior granulometria, that went instead to the laverie. The plant to liquid heavy it was really interesting and clever: a big cylinder, of around 3 meters diameter, full of a high-density and rotating liquid slowly on a horizontal axle. The pebbles of cromite were introduced by the tall one and they followed in the cylinder in operation different trajectories of their density. At the base of the cylinder two canalettes separately recovered the densest pebbles and those less dense. Since the cromite is very denser than the others mineral that constitute the rock, the densest pebbles have enriched in cromite in comparison to those less dense, that are discarded.

A series of ribbons transported the most elegant material to the silos instead. From here other ribbons they brought him/it inside the laverie. This last was very more complex than the plant to liquid dense. Some for the noise, some for the overcrowding, eight people on the base of a mill are not us; some for the rapidity of the turn and very for the same complexity of the system, Pious well soon him lost. He/she saw a series of obsolete machineries, that you/they seemed in procinto to fall in pieces and that, they brought wealth instead to Brieville, from more than 30 years. It was stricken from the numerous reparations done with means of fortune, nails, separated bolts, ropes, pipes, catrame. It was evident that the pieces of exchange, even though they still existed for such an old plant, they didn't reach Brieville. While the operation of every single car was enough clear, that that Pious he/she didn't succeed in following it was the trial in its whole, as the various parts were interconnected. They saw the crushers, the mills, the sieves, the so much notorious spiral, the magnetic separator, the dispatchers. More or less it was understood as they worked. Other thing they were the idroclassificatoris, apparently in the full tubs of water of which a tangle of pipes went out.

The result was a beautiful black sand of cromite, that a ribbon conveyor accumulated in a square to valley of the plant. There were whole mountains of sand of cromite waiting for to be loaded on the trucks.

At the end of the turn, Arianna was discouraged and told him/it to Pious.

"As can be of I help in to improve the plant if don't even succeed in understanding as works! And then they work us to them from thirty years."

It was exactly the same thing that you/he/she had thought Pious, but it was not the case to throw to the rebate, already the situation was not easy.

"To me it seems everything clear" it shamelessly lied "and then it is true that they have been working us for thirty years, but it seems me has never made a serious sampling and, above all, no analyses. Have you seen how Josephine it made us see the quality of the assembled one and of I discard him/it? To eye! Sand is black anymore more cromites it contains and therefore best it is the quality. They do her simple. You give, you will see that something of good person we draw of it. Meanwhile, we are here tomorrow the whole day, we try to understand better as the plant it works, and we sample for well"

The discourse served water as all the parts and Arianna had probably realized.

"If you tell him/it."

It was not convinced, and it was right. The first thing to be done was to stay an instant and to reflect, had seen so many things in that day, perhaps too. Rather the first thing was to get away that annoying yellow helmet. Obviously they were the only ones to bring him/it. None of the workers, that also they continually inserted in the middle of parts of cars in movement and they jumped here and there, brought him/it and, as many obviously, what you/they had given to Pious you/he/she had to be tightened him, it was really a capoccione.

Josephine greeted and, completely covered of dust, red laterite of the mine and black cromite of the plant - approach that made to horrify Pious because of the soccer calls - stunned by the noise and tired, they went up again on the jeep.

Shortly after the five, too much tired to appreciate the beginning of a phenomenal Malagasy sunset, they reached the guesthouse and they concealed him each in his/her own room. It waited them for the bucket of the water, cold. One day to the mine and already Pious you/he/she had lost good part of his/her spirit of adventure. You/he/she would have paid anything for a good warm shower. But how beautiful that is the warm-cold faucet. Turn him/it and, tac, water reaches the temperature that you want. Civilization lives.

10

The morning of Pious October 25 and Arianna had gotten up soon, despite the preceding day you/he/she had decidedly been heavy. They were close to the end and they wanted to take the greatest number of champions the first possible. In the wiped away forenoon the sharp light of the highland drew long shades from the clean contours. The landscape was to strong shades: the intense blue of the Malagasy sky, the undulated line of the crests of the hills and, more in low, the omnipresent orange of the laterite, here variegated by the black of the cromite, above all on the bed of the stream that passed behind the guesthouse.

After the breakfast, the moment culinarily more difficulty than the day - that morning you/they had brought them a broth of chicken and the manioc - Pious and Ariannas arranged him to the entry waiting for Paul, that also the preceding evening had disappeared with Aina.

"But that two if they intend her/it according to you?Arianna " began.

"Mahs, do some that that it seems him" it beat Pious, "provided that comes to take soon us."

"The Malagasy ones are really incomprehensible" Arianna continued "they speak few, they never say as they think her/it and then they disappear and they suddenly reappear in the moments and in the most unexpected places."

"Yes, me it is true I have also noticed him, who knows thing they think of them of us, we must seem him really strange. I fear that the cultural discrepancy is really incolmabile and, after the mazzates he/she took in these days, I don't feel her/it to me to still play to the equitable white and solidale that he/she wants to know respecting. Rather I want to respect them even more: if they want to have to that to do with us the least possible, conforms well then me, they will be their good rights."

At that time, as to confirm the words of Arianna, Romeo suddenly appeared behind of them. The usual exchange of wisecracks in an unlikely French allowed to Pious and Arianna to understand that, for some motive better specified not, or that they had not understood, that morning you/they would not have gone to the plant. Romeo therefore it suggested a turn in the city to Brieville. Franco and Sergio had already gone out with Paul, while Silvana, consulted, you/he/she joined with enthusiasm to the small party.

They reached the center afoot, it was to less than a kilometer. Everything is relative he/she thought Pious, brave follower of Einstein, or better of the extreme, popular and misleading synthesis, of the thought of the great scientist. The villette in masonry that you/they were followed along the road near the guesthouse and that they belonged to executives and various personality, as Romeo explained, they left well soon the place to huts of mud and dung of zebu, from the floor in beaten earth. You/they will have been in some whole hundred and this it was the city. It certainly, concerned however the greater inhabited center in the ray than at least hundred kilometers and many of the inhabitants had not probably seen never a more populous place.

They reached the market, a spiazzo in beaten earth with some fixed stands of wood, where grocerieses were sold above all, many of which difficult to recognize. As always no tropical fruit, rather nothing fruit entirely, less certain knobs from the thick and wrinkled green peel were not of the fruits.

Behind the market a greater hut of the others rose, part in plate and part in wood, a rarity in that place where, of the primitive jungle, he/she didn't remain but some bush. It was the emporium, that he/she sold all the objects of daily use. Pious he/she bought a pair of plastic slippers to replace those that you/he/she had forgotten to Tanà.

They returned in plaza, pleasantly struck by the fact that none of the numerous children had drawn near, rather they looked at them timorous from far with the blocked eyes. Evidently the boredom of Tanà were limited to the capital and, perhaps, to some places tourist. Pious it started to reflect on the effects of the alms and the charity, they perhaps hurt that well, producing dependence and, in last appeal, they were the true persons responsible of the ragged crowds that dragged him in the zones frequented by the whites in any country of the black continent. The country is more dignified, poor but dignified. Here that the city of the Malagasy ones in its mind had already become country, on the other hand "since from the pian of the mountain scorgea Calatafimi said: this city will be my country." It began so another tormentone that accompanied him/it for the whole day: to remember the other verses of that surreal poetry that had recited him so many times when it was child.

In the meantime you/they were stopped and sat on a muretto. Silvana took advantage to turn on the nth cigarette and Romeo, that you/he/she rather seemed embarrassed from some of it, you/he/she took advantage of the moment to satisfy one curiosity of his on the vasàs. He/she asked to Pious.

"How come you speak English and not French?"

"Beh" he/she answered Pious "the English is surely more main point, French even someone studies him/it as second foreign language as the Spaniard or the German"

"But Italy is not nearer to France that to England? And do you learn the language of your neighbors before not?"

What to still answer? You/he/she had opened a small opening on as the Malagasy ones they saw the Europeans, but it was a small opening as soon as, thing there was who knows behind. Pious, initially you/he/she was tried to launch a reprimand antiamericana and disquisire on as Europe, it was succube of it. Then, some for the difficulties of the language but, above all, making himself/herself/itself account than an European that complained him with an African to be colonized could appear ridiculous, definite to leave to lose and to answer, laconically, that the English is the language of the business and in Europe the business everything come.

They returned to the guesthouse just before midday. Romeo disappeared without giving you compare on when you/they would have been able to work to the plant.

Pious it was perplexed and it turned him to Arianna.

"It doesn't seem you strange that nothing don't say us? Is it all right that there east the Afrique, but it is not that even someone doesn't want that the nose we thrust?"

"You/he/she can give him Pious, on the other hand us that we know about the turns that are there under? With all these managers, then it is not understood, who commands. However we are authorized from Sam Fox, the manager of Brieville here you/he/she has given us the welcome one and Josephine you/he/she has told us that it waited us today: we are triply guaranteed, for which demand to do our job."

"Certain, certain, but where are Sergio and Franco ended? It is not that even they conclude some accord and domattina him it departs without delay? You/they cannot make me come up to here, to wave me under the nose that whole cromite and then to think that mogio returns back mogio of it, I break them."

While Pious it articulated threatening the last words the noise of an auto felt him that stopped out him and, after some second, Franco and Sergio they entered the room of the guesthouse.

"Boys, have worked for you" Sergio immediately began taking from the purse of the papers that placed on the table with satisfied air "Sam Fox has been of word, the economical head has passed us all the data of the production of the last years and also the quotas of sale divided for the different clients. Sam is from our part!"

Pious, already irritated for the matter of the job to the plant, it was for sbottare. Wanted us the timely intervention of Arianna, that the shake for the sleeve and it gave him a kick in the shin bones, because he held back. To thing you/they could serve to them the data of production and the name of the buyers of the cromite? Perhaps they were important commercial information, even also reserved, but certain they didn't serve to improve the efficiency of the plant. Passed the first moment of fury, Pious definite to put her/it sul'ironia.

"But from the, Sergio? Have you worked for us? Instead we have not done really anything neither for you neither for any other, it seems that nobody wants to bring us to the plant, on the other hand Paul and the auto you have bought up them for you you, since this morning."

Sergio, as if you/he/she had not felt the words of Pious resumptions.

"You/he/she had told me him Sam that would have given us part of the quotas of Smanzi, that Austrian bastard, that was the first one to abandon them in braghe of cloth to the epoch of the crisis. It looks here, this year you/they have sold him 30.000 tons of sand of cromite, but the contract of next year is alone from 15.000. Sam has made him believe that the first tranche and the others it is alone 15.000 will sign her more before, but those Sam will give her to us! And it is only the beginning. However, Pious, you must make him to believe that you put him to place the plant, invent you something, you are our ace in the sleeve. Sam is sensitive to these things. Rather, even, if you succeed in making him to increase more the production the it gives him/it to us, so we do 20 -25.000 tons already next year."

There was no anything to do, Sergio it was in full competitive trance from man of business that the hit smells, it was as very euphoric as logorroico. Pious it gave up countering but not to draw near to Franco and to tell in a low voice him.

"Here is the shark that comes out, are we then really of the puppets that serve to deceive the Malagasy ones, do we do what we go and is you/he/she ended here?"

"But no, Pious" Franco answered "not to pick her/it up so, you/he/she is alone happy, because you/he/she seems that the things take a favorable fold, you do your job and do well you him, there is no need to throw smoke in the eyes to anybody. Rather how come you are here and not to the plant?"

"Well I see, that at least you you are aware of it. It is not that someone rows against? It is from this morning that Romeo takes us around to do nothing and nobody tells us as and when we can sample the plant. Then you know, without knowing French it is not easy."

"It is all right, after lunch I will try to understand what it is happening, to the worse I send you to the plant with Paul and you directly put you of accord with Josephine. Excuse, goes now, out to smoke" and Franco went out, immediately followed by Silvana and Sergio.

"They use us to do cracked the Malagasy ones" it was the bitter conclusion of Pious, rebellious to Arianna that, during the whole scene, session had imperturbably remained in armchair. To Pious the scene of Alberto Sordi came to mind that it leaned out to the entry of the huts of the natives to warn them that his/her brother-in-law was defrauding them. While the scenes of the beloved film passed him in the mind, stamping him on the face a sorrisetto some stupid, did it exclaim _"huamandè raggionié_ that wants to say? Thievish, here is thing means." Arianna, that didn't evidently enumerate that among his/her films cult, intervened.

"Pious, but that you say? Who is thievish?"

"It allows to lose, Ariannas, are my things, done it is that we must make the clowns for Sergio, so that him can quietly steal this people."

"Ah, here who the thief is. But think of us, all depends on us. You put also that Sergio succeeds in closing the contract, thanks to the fact that has promised our intervention technical able to improve the plant, and you put also that to him you don't interest if we succeed there or less, provided that the contract is signed: the main point is to throw smoke in the eyes up to the signature."

"Note."

"Note" Arianna taken back "but if we succeed or less to furnish information that allow to improve the plant depends on us, then rub you of it of the attitude of Sergio and we try to understand whether to improve the plant."

To these words Pious it calmed down of hit.

"Are right, but is a word! To improve the plant? And as? And then they made him/it at least to see!"

"Here" Arianna taken back that, to this point, it had him/it in fist "it is on this that you must insist and if Sergio uses you, you use him, tell him that also only to make scene the plant we must sample otherwise it anybody he/she doesn't believe it."

"It is all right, you are right on the whole line" it admitted Pious "on the other hand also the diamonds of the film they were quartzes. And then the sampling of the mine, that is that that more it interests us, we have him."

Obviously Arianna didn't gather the reference to the film, but you/he/she had accustomed to certain incomprehensible esternazionis of Pious that, often, in the reasonings, it followed a mysterious logical thread.

"From the, we go to see if it is ready."

They set out toward the room from lunch while Pious it murmured _"Ei stopped him racing and since from the pian of the mountain"_. you/he/she had returned him in mind another piece of the poetry.

In the Pious afternoon and Arianna they made an accurate selection of the picked champions to the mine, choosing and packaging, in plastic pouches wound in abundant adhesive ribbon, those to be brought in Italy. They did an accurate list of it and they put them aside.

The hours passed and news was not had from the Malagasy ones for the visit to the plant. When Pious and Ariannas returned in the great room, Franco slept in armchair, while Sergio and Silvana played to staircase forty. It seemed that the sleepy African air of Brieville had infected everybody. Pious definite that could devote also to his/her Terzani and it systematized him in the porch on the back.

You/he/she was received by the croaky voice of Silvana that told him/it to get ready for the supper. Two hours had to have passed, perhaps three. Pious it finished reading the current page and he/she ascertained to have read 87 pages and therefore to have overcome halves the book, precisely 56,3%, approximate to the first decimal figure. That to make these calculations was one of the manias that Pious you/he/she would never have confessed, it feared to pass for autistic, a category of people that, on the other hand, it fascinated him/it enormously.

After supper it was Sergio to announce that that called an operational reunion, that was held on the porch of the back. Sergio, that he/she saw spies anywhere, went to verify that the keeper, yellow beret, dozed as every evening on an armchair and returned in the porch, where Franco apostrophized him/it.

"Now not to make the paranoiac: the keeper, besides being completely grown foolish, he/she speaks as soon as three words of French, imagine if it understands Italian."

"Eh, leaves alone that the best spies have really the air from grown foolish" Sergio replied, with air of whom knows her/it long.

Finished the what is suitable, Pious takings the word for first.

"To me it seems really that doesn't want to let us sample the plant, I don't know who both, but someone is putting him/it to us zampino. Perhaps Josephine is jealous of his/her job, or it is afraid that we discover that her the plant manages him/it badly. On the other hand without sampling we cannot do anything, even of façade" and Pious it launched a grim look toward Sergio "and the same Sam Fox would not know whether to justify the fact to close the contract with AM."

Pious you/he/she had decided to be to the game of Sergio and, rather, to try to use to really favor his/her same weapons. The stratagem apparently worked, Sergio was well otherwise expressed in comparison to the morning.

"You are right, Pious, it needs that you make you see to the plant and makes a guess at on a beautiful po' of stuff."

Pious it allowed to lose: again the history of the white clowns that you/they must make to be seen around. After an instant of reflection Sergio had found the solution.

"Tomorrow, that likes or no to the Malagasy ones, Arianna and you gone to the laveria and fairies your job, I have already told Paul to be here for the eight. If it tries to make five minutes of delay I dismiss him/it in trunk."

"And if Josephine doesn't allow us to work?Arianna " intervened.

"You tell her that you are directly authorized from Sam Fox and that I/you/he/she don't put on middle."

To Pious it didn't like the idea to make the arrogant person, on the other hand games and jokes of power, heads and submitted, they were all things that it didn't bear at all. However the next day would have been the last day to Brieville and if he/she was wanted to sample other time you/he/she could not be lost.

"It is all right, Sergio" it said Pious "we hope only that don't put on us middle the general manager."

"That, at the most, if he/she doesn't want that processes to the laveria, it brings you in the office and he/she fills you with rhum" it was Silvana that had broken the ice.

"I know him/it that to you the manager is unpleasant and nice Josephine" Sergio still joined in conversation "it is your usual feminism of low league."

"That you would want to say?!did " the voice of Silvana become hoarse even more "there is an African woman that is engineer and it directs the plant of a mine in its Country, do you want that I am not from its part?"

"Bushels with whom want, Silvana" also Franco had entered the conversation "done you/he/she is that tomorrow Pious and Ariannas go to the laveria and of riffa or of raffa the champions that serve take. In as for us, Sergio, goes to the center and we try to peer at among the papers if there is something of profit."

"Even a scheme of the plant" Arianna said "or papers geologiche of the region."

"Or some documentation on the surveys, stratigraphies, location, or perhaps, straight, the carrots" it added Pious.

"And me? Don't you want to admit then that you are sexist" Silvana still intervened "thing you have brought me to do?"

"Correct, Silvana" quickly Franco replied, before a new squabble started between Sergio and she "you, that deal yourself with accounting, come with us and you try to understand if the accounts of the Morarano are to place, or if there is something sinister."

To that point Arianna reentered that, without the other ones had realized, you/he/she was defile.

"Well it seems me, that we know what we must do, I propose a toast to the African women that are successful in the black continent" and it threw out a bottle of good rhum.

"But where have you picked her up?Sergio " asked, with admired expression.

"I also have me mine small secrets" it was the answer of Arianna while Silvana returned from the kitchen with glasses for everybody.

The evening ended therefore in joy, contemporarily to the bottle of rhum.

11

The eight has passed by five minutes and Paul you/he/she has lost his/her job, he/she thought Pious consulting his/her clock.

But Paul, as if you/he/she had felt him/it, really at that time it appeared on the threshold together with Romeo and Aina. Pious it hid a gesture of disappointment: you/he/she had hoped in a well more consistent delay, that allowed him at least to begin to digest not the base breakfast of a strange well identified meat, accompanied by a bad omelet. No coffees neither milk, only tea and the worse you/he/she had been really the approach salami-tea.

Sergio drew near to the divanettis where the other four whites sat and it said "we Everything kill that Romeos that it is on always us. You/he/she has disappeared in the kitchen, according to me you/he/she is having breakfast, let's take advantage to release here it of it."

It was a good idea, even if Romeo had always been kind and available, or at least so you/he/she was seemed. Pious runs in room to take the backpack with the equipment begging not to have forgotten anything, didn't have expectation such a sudden departure. It went out in the before space the guesthouse that all were already in auto. It climbed in hurry and they departed.

They crossed the brief distance that separated them from the walk sustained laveria, evidently also Paul had gathered the air of conspiracy.

The plant was in full activity, a tangle of ribbons conveyors, motor, mills, tables and various equipments that it waved in unison. It almost seemed a living being. Who knows as this feeling it was strong for the workers that worked us, and above all for Josephine, that was the person responsible of it and, somehow, it made to work the everything.

Franco, from the tall one of his/her knowledge of the Malagasy ones, taken the initiative. Without leastly paying attention to some workers that drew near him and directing himself/herself/itself definite toward the office of Josephine, it knocked and it entered without attending answer followed from Pious and Arianna. Silvana and Sergio had not estranged from the auto and they already smoked the inevitable cigarette.

Josephine, surprise, jumped standing from the desk where he/she sat and there it looked in strange way.

"Dear Franco, eccovi the plant is finally, working to full regime, 70 tons the time. Tell me that type of job you want to do, I can make you two workers available. Yesterday we have had some problems unfortunately, but it is everything systematized now. on the other hand you have not come" it started in his discreet English, so that also Pious and Arianna could understand everything.

Pious it was said that probably the day before you/they had not brought them to the laveria not to make them see that this, old as it was, it often had problems that could make to interrupt the production. But then because Josephine complained that you/they had not come? Was it a pretense only perhaps, or did it wait for them indeed perhaps, and had you/he/she been somebody else to hold them distant? Decidedly you/he/she was starting to exaggerate with the suspicions, at the end they were for a technical job that would have brought advantages everybody there. Useless to do too dietrologia, better putting on to job.

Pious he/she explained to Josephine that intended to sample all the products in entrance and exit from every machinery of the plant, but it didn't have idea if you/he/she would have been enough a day to do him/it.

Josephine, without answering, taken a stub of pencil and it started to make some calculations to hand, writing them on an angle of sheet of his/her notebook. After a few minutes a dry arrived "they would Make 412 champions, some that the champions in gone out of a machinery they are the same in entrance to that following, for which avoiding all the duplicates would reduce him to 232 champions."

The reaction of Pious it was double: the first, spontaneous and rapid one, was to think that the engineers were all equal ones, also in the southern hemisphere. The fact to be down to head didn't even make him flow some blood to the brain, they take everything to the letter. Obvious that the double champions didn't have sense. The second reaction, although overpowered before initially by the, taken soon the upper hand. A really exaggerated number of champions, unthinkable to pick up them in a day, and then you/he/she would not have been enough for him the whole night to select them, to catalog them and to package well them for. It was necessary to make a selection. And then, last but not less main point, as could you/he/she think about analyzing 232 champions in the laboratory? It dealt with months and months of job, without counting that it didn't have certain the tools to his complete disposition. It it was necessary to make a drastic selection and immediately.

"Josephine, 232 are really too many, we say that we could take forty of them, maximum fifty. We try to understand where the problem is and we works on that."

"Then better that you assemble you on the tables. The preceding part is constituted by sieves, sieves, crushers and mills, there is no job of separation and it doesn't create problems. The big one of the separation is operated by the 3 series of 8 tables every, to valley of the idroclassificatoris. I recommend you to work there, if there is a problem of enrichment it is certainly in that part of the plant. The rest of the machineries, to valley of the tables, it mainly serves to reprocess the mix and it contributes to the product ended for around 15%, not more."

You/he/she had shot too soon perhaps to zero on the engineers, Josephine it was precise and synthetic and, at least apparently, collaborativa and constructive. Too much constructive! Pious he was already losing, to reprocess the mix, but does the mix come from where? It was urgent a new glance to the tables to understand better the operation of it. Mix my sweet mix I die for you. Awful! Had you/he/she departed, in the least opportune moment, one of his/her mantras that played again him in head, this time the storpiatura of a little song sung who knows by Totò in which film, or perhaps in a show of variety? No, no, you/he/she had to not now lose to try to remember from what film originated the quotation. To work he/she groped up to reach the surface of his/her conscience and to riconnettersi with the surrounding world. Just in time to become himself/herself/themselves account that its silence was starting to become embarrassing.

"Yes, Josephine, will sample the tables, but I would want to also take a champion of the incoming raw material and the ended product, if then some datum could be had on the production and on the ways in chrome it would be the maximum one."

As it often happened from his/her trances, Pious it went out with a sudden gimmick that a lot of times you/he/she had helped him/it. You/he/she would have had to think of us since the beginning, the two most important champions and irrinunciabili I am what it enters and what goes out of the plant.

"Of accord" Josephine taken back "but for the data on the production better that does you them to give from the offices, there are all the ways and the quantities month for month."

Said this got up and it reached the door of the office calling someone with stentorian voice. In the turn of few seconds it appeared one minute worker in blue overall, stained with mud and of oil, Josephine introduced him/it as it Wins that, with a screwdriver and a key, it repaired any car.

"It is him that it will follow you and it will help you in the sampling, you ask to him for anything can serve you."

To this point there was no time to lose, before you/he/she was begun and you/he/she would have been better. Franco informed Josephine that would have gone to the offices to ask the data on the production and you/he/she quickly went out. Pious it followed him/it with the look until it reached Sergio and Silvana that were still smoking. Well soon the auto disappeared to the sight. Now to us two, thought Pious turning to the plant, by now already in full possession of the requisite for a living creature to be considered.

Going out on the Pious gallery and Arianna they were come upon in Aina, that had not followed the others. More to gestures that to words, both for the linguistic difficulties and, above all, for the excessive noise, it made to understand that is be liked to help in the sampling. Pious he/she answered with the closed fist and the lifted thumb, even if it felt him some ridiculous about making American film gestures, but at least it was a world slang. Who knows if some tribes lost it didn't know him/it yet? Proclamation to the gossips, is time to put on to job. The gossips? But what are the gossips? And because you/they must be banished, poor girl? To eye it seemed a Tuscan word. Pious you/he/she would be taken to slaps, there was hurry and more urgency his/her mind it had need to get estranged and it brought him/it adrift. You intended to think about the gossips in the long trip back, even beginning on the subject an agreeable conversation with the companions of trip.

They greeted and Josephine thanked on the threshold of his/her office and they directed him toward the silos from which, on a ribbon conveyor, gravel went out stored after the first shattering.

"Arianna, tries to make well the things for. Do we have to be systematic above all and is to always perform all the operations to every sampling, otherwise everything from buttar street, there six?"

Arianna followed with the backpack in which there was the whole equipment to sample, or so at least they hoped for date the departure in hurry and fury that morning.

"While you were speaking in the office I have given a glance to the backpack. You/he/she should be everything of us, Pious."

It is good, and still a let-down for Pious, it was not the first time that Arianna preceded him/it.

"We systematically proceed then" taken back Pious "if we take well the first champion we take well them all and, if we are also then rapid, we succeed in taking more of it." Pious smiled, the scene of Fantozzi had come to mind that, after years of refinement, he/she succeeded in waking up him, to have breakfast, to get ready and to go out for going to the office in ten clean minutes.

"We directly pick up the champion from the ribbon" and here already since the beginning the first obstacle: they didn't have any type of shovel, not even a trowel, a ladle, a spoon or a teaspoon. It quickly intervened fortunately in them help it Wins, that passed him a marvelous handicraft shovel in beaten metal to hand. Collecting of the champion with the shovel, insacchettamento, writing of the ticket with it initials her/it some champion to put in the pouch, writing of the it also initials some champion on the pouch, with red pennarellone, annotation of the initials some champion on the quadernetto, with brief description, closing with adhesive ribbon, pesatura with pocket dinamometro, annotation of the weight.

After a rapids glance to the first part of the plant, where it happened the grinding that, he/she explained it Wins, it uniformly brought the gravel to an inferior granulometria to 1,3 millimeters, they reached the idroclassificatoris.

"And this as it works?Arianna " said.

"Ah, to know him/it" he/she laconically answered Pious turning with circumspection around the green machinery, that seemed a full tub of water from which varied pipes entered and they went out. Him us took ten minutes to be right of it, after an accurate observation from every angle and exchanges of opinion with Arianna.

"Therefore" it said Pious at the end "we try to reassume: practically the mixed sand to water enters from the tall one from one of the short sides; inside, the tub is full of water, for which sand has the tendency to settle and to deposit him on the fund, but the fund is perforated and divided in the eight tubs of harvest for the sense of the length. Coarsest sand settles more quickly and you/he/she is picked up in the first tubs, that as more goal is picked up from the following tubs. From every tub of harvest then a pipe that goes to reach goes out and to feed the corresponding table to shake, that is there under. Do you see her the tables? They are numbered. This series has gone since 58 to the 65 and on the tubs of harvest, under the idroclassificatore, there are the same numbers. The series of tables that you/they work in parallel they are three as the idroclassificatoris that are on this platform."

"I would say that there are" Arianna responded.

"For which" it continued Pious "every table receives material of different granulometria, decreasing from the 58 to the 65. This way every single table can work only on the contrast of density and not also on that of granulometria and this allows to separate better the densest cromite from the others mineral less dense."

"Good synthesis, seems me an intelligent system."

"Also to me, I would say to sample here the incoming material to every table, from the tubs, where easier is."

Ended the sampling to the idroclassificatore, Pious and Arianna, followed from it Wins and Ainas, directed him on the underlying base, where noise was more deafening and you/he/she was produced from well 24 tables of around 5 meters for 2 that they waved to 50 hits to the minute.

To understand as the tables they worked it was simpler, also because you/they had seen before already her two days. You also clarified the mystery of the mix. From every table they went out in effects three products. The first one was the high-density sand, enriched in cromite, that constituted the so-called assembled, which you/he/she was directly sent to the tub of decantazione, from which, after having freed of part of the water, it reached with a ribbon the area of stockaggio of the material to sell. The second was a sand of intermediary density and therefore rich of cromite, but not enough to be saleable and that, therefore, the third part of the plant was sent to, where it suffered a new process of enrichment. The third product, was finally a low density sand, poor of cromite and that it constituted I discard him/it, which was directly sent in dump.

From every table it needed therefore to take three champions: assembled, mix and discard. Pious and Arianna, even though with the willing help of Aina, they employed us the whole morning, also because, for every champion, it momentarily needed to detach the pipes that delivered him/it his/her and then to attack again them. Non simple operation, considering that sand was fluidificata with water in a relationship of 3 to 7. They went out from there completely soaked and muddy. It wins it laughed under the moustaches that it didn't have, evidently those were his/her daily conditions of job. Who knows if the technicians of the plant take more 30 dollars a month as the miners or something, he/she thought Pious.

You/they were deciding which of the other two series of tables to attach when he introduced Franco.

"But you are tanned by buttar street, strength you come with me, we go to it stuffed a beautiful shower and to have lunch."

What horrible dilemma, that the geologist systematically gathers intent to sample in lost and uncomfortable places, absorbed in the mud, or under the scorching sun, suspended to a wall, or in a dark ravine: what to do, to exploit at the most the little time to disposition? It deals with those few times of real job that days and days of contacts are cost, accords, trip, approach. Or to surrender impulse of the hunger to the coward and to stay? What spiritual and ascetic job is that of the geologist, he/she thought Pious, trying to make himself/herself/themselves forces for refusing the invitation of Franco. It was really at that time that he/she saw Arianna, well muddier than him, considering that to her the assignment was touched to hold the pouches in position while the mixture of dirty sand and water the he poured again on, that looked him/it imploring.

"It is all right, Franco, comes, but we tries to do soon, we still have a lot of job to do and only half day."

Pious and Ariannas were washed in hurry and to the best, using the bucket of present water in their rooms, and they were still introduced to table under conditions enough penoses.

Franco adjourned them on their raid to the offices.

"You/they have passed us the data of production of the last years, with the ways in chrome of the product. Do you want to see them later, Pious?"

"We will give us a glance tonight. We have sampled the incoming one and a series of tables, we will never make her/it to sample the whole plant. Then, while we were coming here in auto, you/he/she has come me to mind that the efficiency of the tables to appraise is not enough, we also have to know that weight has every table on the total one, for which we must do a job on the courses."

"And as we do?worried Arianna " said.

"The only one is to pick up from the pipes the material, for once determined, without losing around of it, and to weigh him/it. I think that five seconds should be enough, but it serve a big container, and that I believe that Wins can easily get him/it, and a chronometer. Does someone of you have one of that horrendous clocks with incorporated chronometer?"

"Mine should have him/it, but I has never used him" Silvana said, "but if you reduce my clock as you were you reduced to your arrival bought me him new, clear?"

"Pious, not to worry you, is a medal from two money" Sergio intervened with supposing air, "I repurchase him/it to you me."

Silvana's voice him arrochì subsequently as every time that had a discussion with Sergio happened.

"Thing you are saying? What do you understand of it of clocks? And then, do you want to put the affective value?"

To this point it touched to Arianna to systematize the things.

"From the, Silvana I pick him/it in custody up me and I will do only the clean job, instead Sergio will come with us to help Pious in that dirt."

"Good, so I like" concluded Silvana.

"Of accord" Sergio added "enough scartoffie, wants really to see nearby those tables from, wants to see that I find the way to put her to him to place?"

The supponenza of Sergio was only at times equal to its arrogance, he/she thought Pious, while it was chewing a coriacissimo piece of meat of an animal not identified. Perhaps it was a good because it prevented him from replying.

Arianna meanwhile it didn't seem convinced of the idea of Pious.

"If we do the job on the courses we won't succeed in sampling the other series of tables, neither the rest of the plant. Is it worth of it, Pious?"

"It is useless to do a precise job on the efficiency of every table: if we don't know how much it contributes to the total one we could not make any quantitative evaluation. I think that is absolutely goes done, better doing well something that so many evil."

"But at least the ended product you will want to sample him/it?"

"Yes that yes, absolutely. The ended product we can sample him/it at the end. However the courses we should do her enough in hurry, according to me we will also succeed in sampling qualcos'altro, I would for example like to sample the spiral, to understand if they work better or worse of the tables."

"Of accord, as you want" concluded Arianna that had understood how Pious on that point you/he/she would have been inflexible.

Just swallowed the last bit, Pious it got up from table, it went to wash him hands and teeth and, in the turn of five minutes, it was in front of the auto.

Sergio protested.

"At least this cigarette do me her to end, considering that then I must reduce me to a heap of mud."

"Yes but only one minute" to Pious a scene of the first film of Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo it came to mind in which Giovanni tries to maintain order in the group granting only a brief bath. Certainly that, from when you/they had started the true job, Pious you/he/she had taken an I seize authoritarian that in other moments you/he/she would never be dreamt, and the thing worked: all listened to him/it, and it was him now that you/he/she was directing the operations.

Shortly Paul unloaded the gruppetto constituted from Pious, Arianna, Sergio and Aina to the laveria, while Franco and Silvana still went to the offices "to look for something interesting", as you/he/she had said sibillinamente Franco.

It wins it waited for them, it easily gave them some big buckets and they were able, therefore, to start the operations of measurement of the first course to the dispatcher, where they measured the total course of the incoming sand, then to the idroclassificatore and, finally, to the tables. The problem was that from the pipes sand went out mixed to great quantities of water for which, in the five established seconds from Pious and carefully timed by Arianna, the bucket was almost entirely filled, above all of water. It was therefore necessary to lift him/it and to gently pour the water on a filter, so that to pick up the sand.

"Pious, you have rubbed me, you had told me that every weighed would have been around the kilo of sand, at the most 3 or 4 kilos and it is my turn to lift buckets that will weigh at least 10 kg" he complained about Sergio.

"Excuse, Sergio, didn't want, but it is not my guilt if sand is mixed to the water" he/she ironically answered Pious "from the, tonight I grant you all the cigarettes that you want."

Sergio was prepared to lift the nth bucket grumbling.

To halves the job reached them Josephine, evidently warned by some worker of the strange operation that you/they were completing the vasàs. He/she asked elucidations on thing you/they were doing and because, it didn't make comments and, when it held him satisfied, it got further.

Reaches the last table Romeo it sprouted, once more suddenly and from the nothing.

"I thought same behind Franco in the offices, does thing do us here?it " murmured Pious to Arianna.

Also Romeo interested him in the operation that you/they were doing, but when it started to ask that type of analysis they intended to do in Italy, Pious he/she asked him, kindly but firmly, to let them to work, that you/they had little time.

To the 16.33 minutes and 14 seconds, as he/she specified Arianna that you/he/she had taken us taste with the chronometer, the operation it was concluded. They almost had still a hour and half before the fittings were stopped to the 18. Certainly, strange that a plant of the kind didn't work to continuous cycle with turns, you/he/she had wondered Pious when you/he/she had known that the laveria remained in operation eight hours a day, from Monday to Saturday. Perhaps the extraction is not enough fast to be been able to supply of material the cycle continuous laveria, or perhaps, the Malagasy ones are simply, better to dose the resources, the mine it is almost exhausted and that it will be once of it of Brieville that cromite there won't be more to be extracted? Once more it was not the opportune moment to reflect, it needed to act.

Pious, feeling been invested of boundless powers by the God of the efficiency that, thought of escaped, seemed unknown to the Malagasy ones - blessed them! - it conducted the gruppetto toward the third part of the plant, where the mix was recycled. Here a group of tall cylinders towered to spiral, at least 3 meters, in which it flowed the mixture of sand and water.

This time needed to be really rapid in to understand its operation if he/she was wanted to sample something. Pious you/he/she was attentively observing where the material was channeled in gone out of the spiral, when the flow of water and sand it started to decrease, before imperceptibly, then always more sensitively, up to extinguish entirely him in the turn of a few minutes. The four looked him in face astounded, the first one to receive him was Arianna.

"And this what he/she wants to say? Are they already the 18? My chronometer the 16,45, has not regulated ago perhaps him with the local time, Sergio."

"Everything, excuse if I specify, but the chronometer is Silvana's and you/he/she is regulated on the Malagasy time. They have perhaps entered strike."

"Yes, really now" it joined in conversation Pious "but does it seem you? But where is it it Wins? Now that do us case he/she knows me that you/he/she has not followed here us."

It wins it returned at that time shaking the head and widening the braccias.

"You excuse, you excuse so much, there has been a breakdown to the principal pomp of the water, it often happens, for today we must interrupt the production."

"This missed only us" it did Pious with desolate air. It was not type from great expressions of disappointment unlike Sergio that it immediately went off, inveighing against it Wins.

"But that you say?! It is not possible, I don't believe it, I want to see. Do him/it on purpose."

"Calmed, Sergio" Arianna intervened, while Pious it didn't make word "so much is useless, on purpose or for a breakdown, you/they have already closed everything."

"Correct", Pious you/he/she was received, "we look for rather to do that that he is still able, before comes dark or, worse, that someone prevents him/it. We go to sample the ended product. Rather I would want to also sample the assembled of the mix."

During this exchange of wisecracks it Wins you/he/she had been immovable, with desolate air, you/he/she had perhaps gotten used to receive well worse reprimands.

You abandon the spiral, the gruppetto reached the extremity of the base on which the laveria rose. The assembled primary flowed on a big ribbon and it picked up, a pair of meters before the edge of the base, also the assembled of the mix coming from another ribbon. In the last two meters, the ribbon finally, passed under a big metallic cylinder.

"Thing is that bargain?Sergio " asked.

"It is a magnetic separator" he/she answered Pious, that had recognized him/it immediately. "Sand evidently contains some magnetite and the magnet it picks up her/it lowering some the way in iron. Do you see those attached straws to the magnetic roll?"

"Pious, do we sample the directly assembled by the ribbon?it was " meanwhile saying Arianna.

Pious it followed with the look the ribbon. It stuck out of around five meters in comparison to the base. The assembled sand, of a beautiful black color, it fell for around about ten meters on a heap that he was forming to the base, to the tall moment around two meters and a half. In the square they were followed a series of heaps of sand cromifera, tall about ten meters and, partly, overlapped the one to the other. Once reached the height of the ribbon, this was moved for forming a new heap. Sergio, that you/he/she had not seen the stock of the assembled one yet, instantly forgot suspects and warlike intentions and exclaimed.

"They will be at least 6000 tons! Be more than a million material, that show!"

The three was stopped an instant to contemplate the hills of cromite and the new heap that you/he/she was growing.

Pious, to that point, it was stricken from a sudden illumination.

"Arianna, Sergio there is not soon one minute to lose. Sergio, takes that pouch and samples the assembled of the mix by the small ribbon. You, Arianna, races to take that big sack that we have seen behind the spiral." You/he/she had given dry orders, to tall voice, almost howling. To that Pious point it loaded him in shoulder the more in possible hurry their utensils. A staircase to pegs brought down to the square of the stock, where the heap of cromite kept on being fed, Pious the descents to rout of neck holding himself/herself/itself with an only hand. Arrived after all he/she still saw firm Sergio in contemplation of the heaps of cromite, while Arianna, that had lost him/it sight, looked around him with the sack in hand.

"I am here under, you go down of run before you stop him everything" from the hurry with which it fell him to the staircase to pegs it seemed that Arianna had grabbed the situation: among few instants, because of the arrest of the flow, also the sand's fall from the ribbon would be arrested and it was already a miracle that you/they had not stopped the ribbon yet. It absolutely needed immediately to measure the course, you/he/she would not have been the opportunity anymore of it.

The two found again him in front of the heap of cromite that, fortunately it still grew. Aina had not reached them and you/he/she had disappeared.

"It is too much tall, I don't come there to put the sack" Arianna was saying. Pious it tried to climb the heap, but it was too much small and it slipped under his feet.

"Climbs on here, soon!" Pious he bent and Arianna climbed on his shoulders. In an instant it was standing on the shoulders of Pious, estate firmly for the ankles.

"So I arrive there, approached to the heap."

"Give me the chronometer" it said Pious.

Arianna the takings from the pocket and it launched him/it to you from the tall one, to take him/it Pious owed release the taking on the ankle with the left hand and, for few, they didn't fall down to face in the heap of cromite. Arianna opened the sack, that was enough wide to be carried the whole cromite. In the same Pious instant it made to depart the chronometer and, an instant later, the ribbon felt him stay. The flow lasted, still some instant, the time that the cromite crossed the 10 meters of fall, and then it arrested him of hit.

"3 seconds and 6 tenth, it is enough, we have our measure of the course" it said Pious smiling satisfied. So much was enough because he distracted and it also released the taking on the ankle of Arianna with the right hand. Arianna staggered for an instant, that seemed eternal, and then it fell down to face in the heap of cromite. It came out from there completely black, both for the cromite and for the incazzatura, and it started to howl.

"Because you have released me to that way? I kill you!"

"Calm, Arianna, the sack is safe. You, rather, you are tanned by to throw, you would need a bath" it said Pious, laughing at taste.

"And if I were fallen back to the on the floor of cement?Arianna " taken back, trying to polish up him from the cromite.

"From the, it is all right, excuse, I have lost the taking. Proclamation to the gossips, now, however" it said Pious.

Who knows for how much time that expression would have remained him engraved in the brain, of sure at least until you/he/she had not discovered thing they were these gossips.

"We weigh the sack, let's take a champion of it and then we take some champions from the other heaps, so we see if the quality is homogeneous or it varies in the time. There will be here the production of different weeks, perhaps one month."

Sergio meanwhile you/he/she had reached them and it contemplated the heap in which it was fallen Arianna.

"Criminals, to stop so the production."

"Sergio, has eccoti, sampled the assembled of the mix?it " said Pious.

"Certain, it is here in the sack."

"And the course?"

"The course? It looks that the chronometer you had him/it you. What had to I do? To use the pulsations of the wrist as I time?"

"It is all right, it is all right, you are right, at least we have the champion, now we weigh this" and Pious it pointed out the sack just filled by Arianna.

Once weighed the sack and drawn a champion of it they looked around him. Under the base, that sustained the laveria, the big motors of the hydraulic pomps were found, that sent the flow of water and sand to the various parts of the plant. There were four pomps and about ten pipes that were crossed in every possible way, there was how much less to remain disorientated. The everything, was inexpressibly dirty besides, it dripped mud from every part and it formed a tangle that made almost impossible to pass. There oddly was not anybody. And the broken pomp? Was Qual? And anybody that came to give a glance?

More aloft, directly under the plan of the laveria, they passed the pipes that brought the different flows from the tables to shake toward the tub of decantazione of the assembled one and toward the spiral of I recycle. Here it dealt also with an inextricable tangle of pipes, it would have taken times to follow them one to one and to reconstruct the scheme of their operation. How did it do him to work in a plant without having available the scheme of the same plant? he/she thought, angry, Pious. It is all right that _there east the Afrique_ , but here it is exaggerated.

Pious it was about to advance in the zone of the pipes, assembled to remember what pits the position of the tables on the impending base, when he felt pushed for the sleeve. You turned of release, it was Arianna, still dirty of cromite, that pointed out aloft with the index.

Pious he wriggled "but that do, make me go to see from where that pipes come!" but Arianna didn't release the taking. To that Pious point him made account that does her/it of Arianna expressed fear, disgust, fear and, perhaps, also disgust. You turned upward and he/she saw, under the ceiling, among the pipes, enormous cobwebs, each with to the center a black spider of exaggerated dimensions. Pious it didn't have particular disgust for the spiders, but the sight upset him/it the same, they were too many and too much great. It seemed to realize some free passages from cobwebs: probably from there the Malagasy ones that went to make maintenance or reparations to the pipes passed. Arianna started over speaking.

"From the, Pious, do you come away, are they also poisonous even, do you know him/it that I have read that in Madagascar there are the most poisonous plants in the Earth?"

The plants are not spiders, it came to object to Pious, but the observation of Arianna was of certain pertinent, for which definite to postpone see you later his to have put between itself and the sympathetic nervous system eight legs a notable number of meters.

They got further with caution to bashful, up to go out in the open in front of the heaps of cromite. Sergio was there still that it contemplated them, to Pious it seemed to see in his eyes the symbol of the dollar.

They employed more than mezz'ora to take other six champions of the assembled by the oldest heaps.

"To close the circle misses us I discard him/it" it told that Pious point "but where is it?"

"That we care of I discard him/it? It is not worth anything.Sergio " replied. But possible that this always thinks and only to the money? - he/she thought Pious - he/she doesn't succeed really to see there a more centimeter in. Definite to explain with patience.

"Sergio, if I must improve the plant I have need to know how he/she works now and, to do him/it, needs the characteristics of all the flows in entrance and in exit, so I can also do a quantitative analysis. And then I want to know how much cromites throw away in I discard him/it, even a lot! This way you do you him to give and the riconcentriamo us, and we make a lot of money." This second departs, to which didn't leastly believe, you/he/she had come him of throw, perhaps so Sergio would have stopped making objections. It worked.

"Strength, goes to sample I discard him/it" Sergio responded.

"But where is it?It " made Arianna

"It is usually behind the fittings: considering that nothing is not worth, anybody he takes he/she intrigues her/it to transport him/it from any part. Before in the middle of the spiders you/he/she is seemed me to see a bundle of pipes that lost there him of, behind that angle" and Pious it pointed out the angle of the base that sustained the laveria.

They directed from that part and, turned the corner, they were found in the middle of a swamp, from which islands of sand of a very different color emerged from that of the assembled one, between the grey clear and the verdino.

"Here it is" it did Pious "in effects there was to wait him for him, I discard him/it nothing, for which is not separated by the water and introduced in an only ribbon is not worth. Unload at random here him water and sand, then water takes the slant and goes down of there. More sand brings with itself and is better, so it is avoided to saturate the site."

"It looks, Pious" Arianna was pointing out some big heaps of sand of discard, situated out of the marshy area "that heaps don't directly derive from the pipes of I discard him/it, the material has been accumulated on purpose there, next to that two containers."

"It is true, Arianna, is perhaps who knows a best discard, put aside in the hope of being able one day to extract its cromite remaining, we take there also a champion from."

This time to take the champions owed get muddy completely all and three, trying to reach the most recent heaps in the middle of the swamp. Pious, the hate of the others attracting himself/herself/itself two, pretensions that he took a champion from every recent heap and that they mixed him "to form a representative champion" as you/he/she had explained. To take the champion from the oldest heaps, kept separate, it was simpler, there water didn't arrive.

By now it was the sunset, the sky reddened behind the laveria, you/he/she had to be a beautiful African sunset. Of Paul, that had to come to pick them up, anybody trace. Corpses were dirty and tired. Arianna suggested.

"From the, we make the jumps on the sand."

"Ok" he/she answered Pious.

Sergio didn't understand.

"Thing you want to do?"

"From the, you also come, we salt on the heaps of assembled and we launch us down to jumps" Arianna specified.

"But are you crazy?Sergio " said and, for better putting in clear that would have convinced him/it never, lit up a cigarette, it turned the bucket and it took a seat us above.

Arianna and Pious they quickly reached the heaps of splendid sand of black and glimmering cromite and they climbed the tallest. From there they started to launch him, to jump, to slip down from the heaps, photographing himself/herself/itself and filming each other himself/herself/itself. I must certainly have some dollar of cromite in the suits, he/she thought all of a sudden Pious.

When, even more tired but satisfied, they seated on the tallest heap, they realized that aloft, along the inferior baluster of the laveria, a small crowd was formed of Malagasy in overall from workers, that looked them at esterrefatti.

"Saint sky" Arianna exclaimed "they are the 18,20 and you/they have finished working. You is enjoying him/it spettacolino, I feel me a white monkey to the zoo, we go down from here."

They put still us mezz'ora to transport all the champions and the tools to the road. It was already dark I crush and they started to worry, when Paul appeared with the auto.

When they reached the guesthouse Franco you/he/she was waiting for them.

"You excuse if I/you/they have not come to take you before, Silvana has been stricken from Montezuma and I has brought her here, I have given her a pair of pills and I have put her in bed. Then I have sent Paul to take you. I have some novelty interesting, but I will tell later you her, now you hurry to wash yourselves and you put the best suits, to the 20 we will have here to supper Roger, Josephine, Marc, the manager of the mine and some other poppy."

No! The supper missed us with the big head. Pious it hated the formal suppers and of representation. That evening, then, after the departed day, he/she didn't see that the shower and the bed. And there was not away of escape, the supper would be developed there, practically ten meters away from the its room. What to do? He/she thought about Silvana and it appraised the possibility to simulate an attack of fulminating diarrhea. It desisted, some not to abandon Arianna, some because it had a hunger from wolf but, above all, because it was scaramantico on these things, to simulate sooner or later an illness it comes you, and he was not particularly desirous to deepen the knowledge with the Malagasy waters.

Pious it made sign with the head that was all right so and it set out sad toward his/her own room. You slowly stripped, throwing the muddy suits in an angle of the room. When, completely naked, it crossed the threshold of the bath him made account that the contained water in that kind of bucket you/he/she would never have been enough for him to reach a dignified level of cleaning. More resigned how angry it returned in room and it dressed him to the best, with a pantaloncino and a shirt. Definite to go to recover the big bucket that there was of side to the abandoned swimming pool and to fill him/it in the kitchen where water there was. Gone out, you/he/she was taken by shivers of cold. To the sunset, on the highland, the temperature also goes down quickly of about ten degrees, and then it threw at that time a rather fresh brezzolina.

Said fact, takes here, now me an attack of dysentery that will nail me the whole night in bath, he/she thought. And there are tomorrow ten hours of jeep. Pious definite to abdicate the great bucket and it took four trips with the small bucket in the kitchen, which allowed him to fill with water - cold, needless to say him - the sink.

When you/he/she had finished washing him, the clock on the comodino did the 1945. Correct the time to dress that, surely, treating himself/herself/itself to eat, this time the Malagasy ones would have been punctual.

At 20,10 o'clock they were all to table: four vasàs and seven Malagasy - Silvana, as predictable, you/he/she had been exempted. Besides the three managers and to Romeo there were other three strangers, whose role was not well clear.

The supper was excellent, with fillet of zebu to the green pepper, mixed vegetables and a good dessert, with the marvelous vanilla of Madagascar. Numerous bottles of three horses was also voided and, at the end of the supper, the atmosphere was rather happy, at least from the Malagasy side. Pious you/he/she was falling from the tiredness and from the sleep and Arianna and Sergio they were not certain envoys under best conditions. The final mazzata, double, you/he/she was given by the lack of the coffee at the end of the supper and, in remuneration, from the numerous turns of rhum to which, Pious particularly, in how much guest of honor, could not escape. Fortunately they didn't ask him to hold a discourse of leave.

Franco, the only one of the vasàs well awake and in degree to converse in French, it saved the situation holding the conversation lives. All of a sudden, among the smokes of the alcohol and the sleep, Pious him made account that you/they were speaking of the mine. He/she groped for emerging from the deepest layers of the conscience and he/she succeeded in telling Franco.

"Franco, please, you ask to Roger how much cromite there is still to Ankazo and thing they will do when it will be exhausted."

Franco made sign of yes with the head and you/he/she continued the conversation with the Malagasy ones. After a few minutes it turned him to Pious.

"It seems that to Ankazo there is still 35.000 tons, with which you/they count to reach the summer break, when, during the season of the rains, the mine closes for three months."

Pious it tried to pick up the ideas.

"Summer break? But if we are in October"

"Yes, but in the southern hemisphere the summer break has gone since January to March, when it rains to I hijack every day and the pomps I am not able to hold the dry mine."

It owed really to be in coma not to remember that they were in the southern hemisphere, he/she thought Pious.

Franco had meanwhile started over speaking, Pious you/he/she tried to focus.

"Pious, do you listen to me?"

"Yes, yes, tell me pure."

"Roger says that for March you/they will have finished preparing the two new mines, Bemankevina and Telomatina, the first one with 4.000.000 of tons and the second with 70.000 tons of cromite."

This yes that it was a novelty, here that really the last evening two new mines of mint come out. And was the mineral one equal to that of Ankazo? Best? Worse? Would you/they have owed risettare the laveria? And did their job to thing serve then? And because two mines to be opened together and not one? Pious definite that the questions were too and that evening would not subsequently have held up. The rest of the evening therefore it fell in the forgetfulness. Pious he/she vaguely remembered to have all of a sudden reached his/her room and to be thrown on the dressed bed.

12

Tanà, that was seemed to the first impact to Pious a crumbling agglomeration of modest dimensions, of return from Brieville you/he/she was magically turned into a tentacled metropolis. Traffic, lights, insignias, noise. You/he/she had been a feeling spaesante. Now he was sipping a beautiful coffee in the hall of the hotel - and to think that before departing for Brieville the coffee of the Den Plaza you/he/she was seemed him undrinkable - in attended that somebody else of the group did him alive, considering that you/they had to have sleep all as dormice after the long trip. I travel that, on the other hand, ballonzoloni had been calm and boring allowing: Pious good part of the time had slept. His/her attempts to begin an etymological / philological discourse on the meaning of the gossips you/he/she had been mocked and hissed to suon of rhum, for which well soon was made a reason.

You/they had reached Tanà that was already dark, Paul had brought them to the hotel and you/he/she had warmingly greeted them, its job was ended. A beautiful you/they were given rinsed and then you/they had dined in the hotel, they were all tired ones. Only Franco was made to come to take from his/her driver and you/he/she had reached his/her house.

Pious that morning had gone down soon, you/he/she had recovered good part of the tiredness of the preceding days sleeping a lot of times in the jeep, for which it didn't have anything to recover. You/he/she was observing the fund of the empty cup and it was absorbed in his/her thoughts on the relativity of the impressions that we receive, comparing that that had made him Tanà arriving from Milan and arriving from Brieville, when a waiter, in perfect red livery, it interrupted him/it making him understand that there was something for him to the reception.

Pious it set out enough surprised, who could look for him/it, or to have sent him something? He/she thought about the tenebrous Emile. On the package there was alone his/her name, if it made him/it deliver and it returned to sit on the divanetto, devoured by the curiosity. You/they had told him that you/he/she had been brought soon that morning.

When it opened him/it he/she was astounded. He/she slowly explained, one to one, two beautiful flags of Madagascar, new flaming. Paul had been of word on a promise of which he was already forgotten by a piece. Pious him made account that Paul had given him a great lesson. Yes, it is true that Arianna and he had probably treated him/it better than they made the other vasàs, so much that he had confided them not to be happy not at all about that job, to be graduated and to have been in Belgium with a scholarship, but in his/her Pious intimate he/she knew that, in that days, you/he/she had treated him/it more as driver that as human being. And how much did it enter it that the fact that was Malagasy? Endless abysses risked to open in the conscience of Pious. Certainly that that, with a simple gesture, you/he/she had jumped in an alone hit all the cultural and racial gaps you/he/she had been Paul, you/he/she had been him to meet them, from human being human being, and not vice versa.

Fortunately or unfortunately? he/she thought Pious, but you/he/she was interrupted in his/her reflections by the woman of the cleanings, that was voiding the ashtray and that, timidly you/he/she was handing him a leaflet folded up in two. It made him understand that it was him fallen when you/he/she had opened one of the two flags. You/he/she had to be a ticket of Paul. Pious it opened him/it and he/she read: you/he/she was written, probably, with an old typewriter, in a good English, few sibylline lines:

_to Brieville they say that someone works at night and that the trucks disappear, it seems then that the carrots have not been brought away never by Brieville_.

Pious he/she remained to fix, stunned, the ticket for some second, reread then it different times. Therefore, not only Paul was remembered some flags, but you/he/she had picked up information among the people of Brieville. Did it now pass her to Pious, because? It seemed an application of help: to Brieville there is something that doesn't go, you see if you can do something. For the second time, after the evening in house of Emile, Pious it felt him in a film of espionage, with so much of hidden message, originally in this case, in a flag. It started to reflect worried, that's why the packet was anonymous and the ticket written to car, Paul was afraid that discovered him that you/he/she had been him to pass those information. What was the situation more dangerous than it seemed?

Pious it was absorbed in these thoughts, when a noise of footsteps made him lift the head. gi was becoming paranoiac? It was Silvana that he directed verse of him.

"Pious, but where are the others? I thought you were already having all breakfast and instead you are alone there. I go out to smoke, call me please when they arrive."

"It is all right" he/she answered Pious mechanically, while it was making to slip with carelessness the ticket in pocket.

It was for risprofondare in his/her meditations, when they handled to definitely prevent him him and this time, Sergio and Arianna, that went out of the elevator together.

"Good morning, Pious" they said in unison. "You have seen Silvana? You/he/she has gone down five minutes before me, we are hungry" Arianna continued.

"Yes, is it to smoke out, do you go her/it to call please?"

At breakfast Pious it killed different mangos, one of the greatest products, also from export, of Madagascar, but absent for the streets of Tanà. Present, instead, in real falls of tropical fruits to the Den Plaza. After the flags received by Paul, Pious you/he/she had suffered equitable thoughts and solidali, as he/she called them between itself and itself, which however you/they had quickly been replaced, after the reading of the ticket, from well more worrisome thoughts. There is then really something sinister in the whole matter, the ticket was the test of it. Someone did something of hidden and that gruppettos of vasà you/he/she had happened to thrust the nose really there. But did thing do him of hidden, at night? Where did the trucks disappear? And these carrots where you/they were? They seemed to bounce continuously between Tanà and Brieville. And then, because they were so important? And that bond they had with the trucks that disappeared?

After breakfast Pious churches to Arianna to reach him/it in his/her room. It made her find his/her extended flag on the bed and it gave her/it for you, explaining her as you/he/she had entered possession of it. Also Arianna was stricken, but its comment limited him to a "Paul is a great, I knew him/it."

Pious you/he/she had decided to confide the last events to Arianna.

"Perhaps Paul is greater than that that think, you/he/she looks what I have found" and Pious you/he/she passed to Arianna the rubbed bigliettino. You slowly read him/it and, at the end, without saying nothing, it gently placed him/it on the comodino, looking him/it as it was an alien.

"Pious, that wants to say?it " said after some.

"He/she wants to say that at night someone makes to disappear some trucks or something of the kind, and he/she wants to say that the carrots have been on purpose hidden for some motive that we don't know. In few words, he/she wants to say that behind the mine of Brieville there is something sinister and us there are in mean."

"It won't be dangerous at all?" Arianna seemed more also worried of Pious.

"I don't know, however to Brieville nobody has shot on us and tomorrow we returns in Italy, I would say that we can be calm. Test to put together everything there was however, also something strange before the ticket."

"It already seemed, really that someone didn't want us to sample the plant."

"Note, the first day of sampling has cared away from the plant without giving us any explanation and the second, when we have forced the hand going alone us, all of a sudden you/he/she has jammed everything. I bet there a button against a Thaler that has not been a case. And then it is not the only strange thing."

"Already it is not the only strange thing," it made echo Arianna.

"Everything the mine, Ankazomotala is almost exhausted in the last years; then you/they must have cultivates her/it from criminal, with that inclination of the terraces, so much that has been a landslide there is dead also someone even. You/they are preparing other two mines to replace her/it next year, but you/they have not made her see, rather nothing has not told us up to the last evening Brieville. If we must give a hand, thing there is more important than to sample the three mines to compare her and to understand if the mineral one that you/they will have extracted since two new will be different from that of Ankazo? Instead no, it doesn't rub you of it nothing. If you remember yourself, had Emile spoken of 8 million tons of cromite to Ankazo then, where am I/you/they? Or did it perhaps intend the native reserves?"

"We could see the data of production that it has Sergio and to try to understand if the production passed of Ankazo has been of around 8 million tons" Arianna intervened.

"Good idea, that data I want to study them well, we will make to do a copy of it to Milan. We don't speak then of the carrots that don't exist before, then they are to Brieville, then to Tanà and, now, again to Brieville. But what will you/they have of special? They are not gold ingots. If we put also then now there nighttime jobs and truck that disappear, the polpettone is ready."

"And as we have made us end in the polpettone? It doesn't seem me to be a grain of raisin or a pinolo."

"Interesting this polpettone, then also you northern you do him/it with raisin and pinoli."

"But leaves alone the polpettone now! And we see to come out of this history."

"To come out or to insert us inside? To me the ticket of Paul plays as an application of help."

"Yes, thing we do? Do we call the Malagasy policemen? The most corrupt police of the black continent! Those splash about us."

"No, decidedly the policemen are not a good idea. We try to understand what it happens, even the data of production and the analyses of the sampling will tell us something. On the other hand, if someone has tried to prevent us to sample, he/she wants to say that from that sampling we could understand something."

"Then the problem is in the plant, it is there that something sinister happens."

"Probably yes, however also to the mine, and perhaps in the new mines and, finally, in the old surveys. I would say that the common denominator is the cromite, something strange happens during it draws her/it that it goes from the prospecting, through the extraction and the enrichment, up to the sale of the cromite."

"Already, but if the problem is in the cromite we should talk to Sergio, Franco and Silvana of it."

"Perhaps yes, but we wait in Milan, useless to throw now out the discourse, they are all conjectures and Sergio, impulsive as it is, even it goes to tell him/it Sam Fox, or to somebody else of the innumerable managers."

"From the, we go down now, that first Sergio has told that he/she wants to make the nth reunion."

They found in the hall Sergio and Silvana. The first one walked to wide footsteps inveighing against Franco of whom news was not had and that he/she didn't answer to its calls. Pious you/he/she was appraising whether to go out to make a turn or to conceal in armchair to light Terzani, when Franco in person entered with smiling and satisfied air.

"Good morning boys, slept well?"

"But where were you? Possible that answer never to the telephone?Sergio " intervened, with warlike tone.

"Where I was? I was coming here, obvious, and since I would have arrived in the turn of a quarter of I have not now answered. Strength, let's put us to that tavolinos in the angle" and Franco pointed out a set apart tavolino, surrounded by divanetti, that could quietly entertain everybody. They moved all to the suitable tavolino and, as soon as you/they had put on comfortable, Franco took back.

"I have here all the data of production of Morarano Chrome, and then I have another surprise, for which I must thank here the present Sergio that, with a splendid diversionary movement, you/he/she has allowed me to make the colpaccio."

"But that movement and that colpaccio? But what does it say this here?" Sergio, already irritated for the missed answers to his/her calls, it seemed to become infuriated more every moment.

"Calm, Sergio, will see that now it gives your rage, it looks what I have fished in the offices to Brieville" and Franco leaned on the table a great sheet refolded that you/he/she brought the simple heading:

LAVERIE - FLOWSHEET

A strange admixture of French and English.

Sergio remained an interdicted instant.

"And is thing this stuff? Where have you said that have picked her up?"

"Explain him him you, Pious, what it is, that say then you as I have picked her up."

Pious, that from when you/he/she had read the heading it looked at the sheet folded up with avarice, it quickly said.

"It is the flowsheet of the laveria, the diagram of flow or the scheme of the plant that you/he/she should represent the various machineries and their connections."

"Good, Pious, 10 and praise!Franco " taken back, "I believe that it will be very useful for your job."

"Useful it is to say little: essential, essential, a manna, really when I didn't hope for there more, sinned only not to have had him/it before sampling."

"But in short" it was still Sergio that the idyll interrupted among geologists "you want to tell us as you have done to give you that accursed piece of paper?"

"Certain" Franco taken back "memoirs the day before yesterday afternoon, when we have gone again to the office?"

"Some that I remember me, has not grown foolish."

"Then you will remember well, that all of a sudden someone has come to call Romeo, that has gone out in all hurry."

"Yes, do I remember me, and then?"

"To that point in the office the employee had remained only, memoirs? Well, you have had the splendid idea to bring him/it out smoke with you. Initially I have thought that I/you had done him he/she waits for, but I had overestimated you, as it confirms me your reaction of now."

"Ah" Sergio seemed remained without words.

"Well" Franco taken back "while you, quickly followed by Silvana, you smoked your cigarettes, I, say, I have made a turn in the office, and I have found this" and it pointed out the flowhseet "which, fed up with to be in the middle of the scartoffies there, you/he/she is inserted, inopinatamente, under my shirt."

"Unfortunate of a criminal" Sergio inveighed "and if someone had entered? If Romeo had returned? Imagined if, at that time, the manager had arrived. Would have sent to the air everything, and I would have given you in meal to the crocodiles!"

"Calm" Franco answered, that had lost never the calm "everything calculated, is good in these things, I don't make me peck at. Even if the employee acknowledged the disappearance, you/he/she would not tell him/it anybody and you/he/she immediately would do another copy of it, rather than to go middle there him for negligence."

Sergio, although it didn't seem entirely satisfied by the explanations of Franco, it calmed down and, changing tone, it said "Beh, by now the damage you/he/she is done, we give a glance to this bargain."

Pious it didn't wait for other. Definite not to intervene in the dispute among the two partners of the AM, on the other hand him it didn't treat certain of the most serious case of industrial espionage, and then you/he/she was done with good intentions: after all they wanted only to help the Morarano to improve the product. Rather, the fact that they had the scheme of the plant there and you/they had not shown him/it to you was decidedly strange. And it was another wedge that was added to all the strangeness of which you/he/she had discussed with Arianna a little before. Pious definite that, at least in that breaker, you/he/she could feel the conscience to place and it opened the flowsheet in front of the curious looks of everybody.

It was a white sheet, that, once unfolded, it resulted rather bulky, so much not to be us on the tavolino. It contained a big number of simple geometric figures: you look for, square, rectangles, rhombuses, all number ones; an unbelievable number of lines, with small arrows that united her: some numbers and different writings in French.

Pious it felt him lost. It didn't dare to lift the eyes from the sheet, but it felt that the looks of all were aimed at him, waiting for one some explanation. Was him the teacher!

The silence started to make embarrassing, when Silvana interrupted him/it, expressing, with his/her hoarse voice, the thought of everybody.

"But is not a cazzo understood here, that are all those lines? Pious, but do you understand there something?"

Taut directly in dance, Pious you/he/she could not do falser than nothing. Definite to throw in meal to the public that little that was seemed him to understand and to put us some parolones scientific, that intimidates always, to does her/it some healthy principles. You/he/she would have had subsequently time to study with calm the flowsheet.

"It deals with a diagram of flow that represents the flow of material that crosses the plant, in our case it sand-blasts of cromite. Aloft, to the left, the tout venant enters, that is subsequently divided in its components, to the right we have here the output of the waste rock and of the assembled one. For the details I should read with calm what there is written, me it is French it he/she takes some time."

Pious it was very satisfied of itself, practically you/he/she had not done anything else other than to say the only thing of which you/he/she had been certain after the first glance to the sheet, or that the material entered from left and went out of right, the rest they were logical consequences. With the simple substitution of the technical terms tout venant, output and waste rock to the simplest and, more or less, equivalent material incoming, material going out and material of discard, you/he/she had gotten the desired one 'effect teacher.'

Pious it tried to use the less possible what himself had defined 'effect teacher', or the art, of which I/you/they are highest teachers the university teachers, old perhaps only from the physicians, to confuse and to put in subjection the interlocutor, through the unrestrained use, excessive and often useless, of incomprehensible terms entirely to the interlocutor. Above all, Pious it made him a boast not to use this technique to lesson, thing that instead many his/her colleagues, to his/her opinion, they did, at times in thick doses.

In the specific case, with a small taste of 'effect teacher' you/he/she had reached the purpose. All were looking at him/it admired and some intimidated. Sergio seemed to that point to take a decision.

"Well, Pious that is your job, we have furnished you to us the means, now it touches to you: study you this scheme, fairies the analyses and you see if the product can be improved."

You/he/she was already forgotten that that mean had furnished him Franco in enough debatable way and, above all, that few minutes you/he/she was forgotten before you/he/she had threatened with giving him/it in meal to the crocodiles to have done him/it.

From that moment, irresistibly attracted by the symbols by to decipher and by the inextricable interlacement of lines, Pious it lost him to study the flowsheet and it didn't pay attention to what you/they were saying the others.

All of a sudden Arianna the shake.

"You have understood, Pious, but doesn't it seem yourself strange?"

"Eh, thing?it " did Pious resurfacing "Sì, certain, it is strange." Arianna however you/he/she was looking at him/it with air of reproach, Pious it quickly appraised the situation and definite of capitulary, you/he/she would not have made her this time to recover.

"Yes it is true, I have not listened, I was looking at this damned sheet, nothing is not understood, it is a beautiful puzzle" it told low voice.

"Franco has all the data of production of the mine, you/he/she seems that in the last years both lowered both the quantity and the quality of the material product."

"Indeed? Strange. I don't believe that the cromite of Ankazo can worsen as soon as in quality they deepen I dig him/it, and then this would not explain the diminution in quantity. Perhaps, however, in the deepest part of the mine you/they have had great problems of extraction."

Sergio interrupted the conversation among Pious and Arianna.

"Pious, that think of it of this history?"

"I don't know, Sergio. Do you make me give a glance to the data?" If you/he/she had given her defeated to Arianna, that knew him/it well and you/he/she had caught him/it, not for this you/he/she had to let to Sergio, Franco and Silvana that you/he/she had not listened also understood.

Franco passed him a document bound to rings, open on one of the last pages, telling him.

"It looks, this chart reassumes the data of production and the ways of the cromite sold from when the Morarano has taken back the production after the crisis of end years'90."

Obviously Pious it was not knowledge of the fact that to end years '90 there had been a crisis of the market of the cromite; on the other hand, he/she thought, each does his/her job.

The chart showed, year for year, the production in tons of cromite in pebbles, denominated 'lumpy' and of cromite in sand, denominated 'sand.' Close to each of the two columns there was another that brought some ways of it, to intend him as middle way in chrome, express as I oxidize, for the year in examination, as it specified a noticina to the fund of the chart.

Sergio had quickly reached the same conclusion how Pious you/he/she was discussing with Arianna before.

"A decrease of the kind doesn't have anything to do with it with the market: these or they are in crisis with the extraction or with the plant. What do you think of it, Pious?"

"I don't believe that the decrease of the ways can be explained with a diminution of the content in chrome of the rock to the mine. This, will verify him/it however with the champions that we have picked up to the mine. The decrease of the production could be explained by the fact that, as soon as the mine deepened him, they had more problems to extract for which the speed of extraction lowered, striking again himself/herself/itself to chain on the enrichment of the cromite to the fittings and on the sale. However, if you look at the chart, it is strange that in this whole period the production of lumpy has remained around unchanged, while the production of sand is showily lowered. Besides also the way of the lumpy remains around the same for the whole period."

To that point Sergio intervened.

"You are right, Pious, I looked only at the sand, that is that that interests us. But then that it has happened according to you?"

"Difficult to tell him, but according to me the problem is not in the mine but in the plant. What then the problem is I don't know him/it, we hope that the champions that we have taken help us to understand him/it. However it is not easy to understand, it seems that they keep on putting us the batons among the wheels. How do we do to say something of the mine having made a stroll of half day? Where are the plans of cultivation and the sections geologiche? Don't speak of the surveys. From the paper that, to this point, imprudently, the manager of the mine has perhaps given us, you/he/she results that has made kilometers of surveys. Where are the reconstructions of the subsoil and, above all, where are the carrots? Kilometers of carrots are not stuff that hides him in the small pocket."

Pious you/he/she was infringing the intention not to talk with Sergio and the others of all the strangeness of that days up to the return to Milan, on the other hand it kept on not saying anything neither of Emile neither of the ticket of Paul. With every probability, Sergio would never have realized that the surveys were not marked on the paper furnished him by the manager. Pious and Arianna had seen them on the paper shown them by Emile, the evening that you/they had been at his/her home.

"It is true, Pious, it is everything very strange" Sergio had assumed a meditative attitude.

Pious it turned him to Franco.

"Franco, could not insist with someone, even here to Tanà, because I/you/he/she give us these data?"

Also Franco appeared thoughtful after the words of Pious.

"I think of yes, you/he/she can be done, I don't assure the success however. The Malagasy ones are champions in the art to divert, to take time and not to answer. However the Morarano invites tonight us to supper in one of the best restaurants of Tanà. There will be, perhaps, also the president. We could pass from them before, in the afternoon, and to talk to Sam Fox."

"It seems me a good idea", concluded Pious, that hid the disappointment for the second formal supper in three days.

Arianna gathered the instant of silence that followed for intervening.

"Franco, is not that we could go to see the museum and the library of geology today?"

Good idea, Pious you/he/she had not thought of us.

"Yes, it is all right" Franco answered "you can bring there afternoon after lunch today, we directly go then to the Morarano."

"And me?did it " tell that point Silvana "nobody thinks about me? Did I want to go to do another I turn to the Digue to buy something, do you make me go alone?"

"You cannot go to the Digue, Silvana" Sergio interrupted her/it "today, please, you put yourself from good here and you spulci the whole accounting of the Mororano and if there is something that is not clear tonight we ask him/it to Sam Fox."

"That cheat, me it take a cigarette" concluded Silvana and it went out.

The reunion was closed. Franco went out of run, saying that an errand had to make and then have lunch to house with his/her/their wife. They remained in three: Pious, Arianna and Sergio. They decided to hold him light for the lunch, sees the supper that waited for them. A turn to the Colbert and some juicy dessert in the adjacent confectionery. They recovered Silvana and they set out.

You/they were crossing an outskirts of well different Tanà from the bidonvilles on the road of the airport, or from the parts of the Digue. A road discreetly asphalted, on sweets hills, with very green and simple but you take care of cottages in bricks. The museum of geology of Tanà was found in a rather well-off residential zone. Unbelievable that to Tanà there was a museum of geology, Pious it was not sure that museums of geology existed in Italy, everything al more museums than natural sciences, at the most some mineralogical museum.

The driver stopped him on an ample square. In front of them, in a building of red bricks, the museum of geology, on the right the geologic service with attached library.

They opted for visiting the museum before. About ten salt, with really exceptional champions, and of great value, over that of great scientific interest. And to think that all came from Madagascar. It was really the geologists' heaven. To the walls some papers geologiche, in maximum part of the French colonial period.

Pious, Franco and Arianna detained for a long time him in front of the showcase that picked up the champions of cromite.

"Pious it looks that the cromite is not all in the hands of the Morararano" taken to say Franco "yes, they have the best layers, it speaks of million of tons, but I am so many others of it, smaller or more lost, that are free, or that however you/they can be acquired. All found by French more than fifty years ago."

"And to you it would make throat acquire someone of it. Correct?Arianna " said.

"Certain" Franco taken back "also a layer from 100.000 tons that makes, even 50.000 tons of material, with a way in 48% chrome, it would be worth, to today's prices, around ten million dollars. And of layers of that kind it is us of it a beautiful number. And not only cromite then: manganese, nickel, graphite, not to speak of gems and gold. Madagascar is still a Country with enormous potentialities. If one knows her to exploit you/he/she can make unbelievable business. Do you see that champion with the label faded writing to hand?"

Pious he/she read the label to work.

"That of Te.no.maka?

"Yes, he, is a layer to no more than 100 km from Tanà, of which it appears on the surface well few, but that you/he/she has never been exploited. Despite has a French paper that brings him/it, in twice that I have tried to find him/it, I have not drawn a spider from the hole. There are then the mines exploited for brief time, even 50 or 60 years ago and then, with the independence, or immediately later, abandoned, as Mefandramana, in the north of the Country, whose licenses, are perhaps in the hands of Morarano, or perhaps no, difficult to know. Or as the layers in the jungle next to Tamatave. Do you imagine yourself, a layer next to the only one I bring of Madagascar? Practically you reset the logistics, that here is an enormous problem."

"I have understood, you, would like Franco to try to take a layer for AM. And would you want to involve us for the study? Not badly as it conceives we can speak of it."

"Exact, in the next months I inquire better me and then we decide, meanwhile we go to see what we find in the library."

The building that entertained the geologic service unlike the museum, was a horrible grey parallelepipedo in armed cement, in bad government style.

Just entered, on the right it opened a door, not old but already grungy, with a plate that pointed out the library.

Inside, a mess of shelves full of dusty books, in all two rooms. The greatest part of the books they went up again to at least thirty years before.

"I have always thought that here inside interesting information is hidden. The greatest part of the job of mining prospecting, in Madagascar, you/he/she has been done among the years '50 and '60" Franco said "but I have never found the correct moment to give a glance. Now, considering that we are here, even six eyes from geologists can individualize something that the punishment is worth to bring away."

Portar street? It is not that Franco had even the intention to make the encore of the flowsheet? Pious definite to hold the open eyes.

The three dipped him among the books, skimming through, spulciando, leggiucchiando here and there. There were no great formalities in that library: the librarian, from the air sonnacchiosa, lifted sometimes a look on the vasàs from its posting, a desk in wood that was in unstable balance between the antiquariato and the garbage trash.

Franco told them to assemble all the things that held useful on a bench, that you/they then would have opened the negotiations with the librarian.

To a Pious line it realized that on the wall leading you/they were exposed some maps and geologiche and it passed good part of the time to examine her: he/she already saw her make beautiful show of itself suspended in his/her office.

In the turn less of a hour, on the bench there was a small battery of books and almost all the papers that Pious you/he/she had seen.

The negotiation for the papers was simple: they had a fixed price and you/they were produced in numerous copies. Pious it purchased a beautiful map of Madagascar of great format, in three sheets, a geologic paper, a tectonic paper and a paper of the mining layers, all to the staircase of the whole island, for which little profits for the job of detail but surely very useful to have together a picture of. And then, he/she thought Pious, they are very beautiful, I want her and enough. The papers decidedly were not to good price. A lot of about ten thousand of aryary flew away.

The turn of the books came then. Franco churches if you/they could be made some photocopies. Impossible, the photocopier was broken. Pious he/she wondered from how much broken was, or if, there had been never straight. Pious and did Ariannas look him lost, would you/they have had to spend times and times in the library in to directly take notes from the books? Stuff of other times. And when, if they departed the next day?

The solution was very simpler: the books were on sale, and to moderate prices decidedly. Pious you/he/she suffered a sense of nausea, it was as to plunder the library, unique copies, even that cannot be found, in sale, and to few thousand of aryary. Instead Franco was enthusiastic.

"Perfect, so we kill the competition. Reserved news, only for us."

They brought away a _Gisements des minéraux métalliques_ of the 1962. Author a certain Lesaire, that as author of numerous works often appeared and seemed to immediately be the maximum expert of Malagasy mining layers in the colonial epoch and in that following.

With 8000 aryaries, few more than three European, they bought a _Mines de 1966 Madagascar_ and, with others 12.000, a _Géologie minière du 1959 Madagascar_ , of over 200 pages.

Particularly interesting it was a _Les resources minérales du Madagascar_ , published with the patronage of the French geologic service in 1976 and that it brought numerous information, also on the layers of the zone of Brieville.

A problem rose with the classical one of the classical ones of the Malagasy geology, the Lemaitre of the 1933 _Géologie du Madagascar,_ in which Pious and Arianna already comes upon different times, in the form of quoted text, during their bibliographical search to Milan. It was the original edition, an enormous tome from the rigid cover of over 700 made yellow pages. They told the librarian that you/they interested particularly about fifty pages on the mining layers in them.

"Pas de problèmes" it said these and it quickly went out with the tome under arm. Suddenly you/he/she had to have appeared from some part a photocopier. Pious he mistook and realized only when the librarian reentered with the fifty sheets torn by the book and carefully stung. It was too much, Pious you/he/she was scandalized. It got further horrified by the sheets that the librarian was handing him leaving him/it bewildered.

"Pious, it is useless to do so" Franco told him _"there east the Afrique_."

It will be also the Afrique but me I won't be accomplice, he/she thought Pious. Decisive it was the intervention pragmatico of Arianna.

"It looks, Pious, he/she knows me that it is better that we do him/it us before makes him/it some avid hunter of mines. At least these texts they will end in an university."

Pious he/she still thought of us an instant and then "it is All right, however we buy him/it whole, to dismember him/it so it is a great too crime."

They went out with a big roll of papers and an envelope of books. Africa was really spiazzante, didn't know whether to consider you a criminal or a benefactor. Had you/they ransacked a public library or had you/they saved some rare texts from the certain destruction? Difficulty to understand him/it.

To the 16.30 reached the offices of the Morarano Chrome. This time you/they immediately were made to arrange from a secretary in a spacious and bright office. After few minutes it reached them Sam Fox, jacket and tie and his/her usual air, together astute and busy. You turned to all of them in a good English.

"Welcome, I hope that you have been well to Brieville and that missed nothing is not you, I have given dispositions to Romeo to help you for anything it served you."

What to do? To talk to Sam of the strange incidents that had happened to Brieville? But as to do without leaving to intend that, hardly, them you/he/she could be held casual? Even you/he/she would be offended some suspicions that subtended. And then him with whom was? There was even really him behind everything this, then perhaps better making the gnorris and to make to believe that everything smooth was spun. Yes, in the doubt it was the best solution, however something on the surveys could be asked.

In the meantime Franco had answered to Sam and carried out to the phase of the what is suitable. They seated all and four, Sam behind and them three in front of the desk.

Pious he/she explained that type of samplings you/they had done and to that purpose. Unfortunately you/they had been able to work to the alone plant a day, for which the sampling was incomplete. We see how it reacts, he/she thought Pious.

"Only a day? How come?Sam " said "I had told Romeo to follow you and to facilitate at the most your job."

Well, a point for Sam.

"I don't know, really it seems that there has been some problems to the plant, all of a sudden you/he/she is also stopped"

"Eh already" it made Sam with desolate air "it often happens. You have also seen him you, the plant is old and obsolete, only the skill of Josephine and the devotion of the workers it still allows to make him/it work":

"Yes, indeed it would need a beautiful modernized" it made echo Pious.

"All it takes is unfortunately replacing some part, they would be made more damages than other, and to insert new elements in such an old plant risks to make to jump everything. You/he/she should be restructured completely, investing us some considerable figures."

But if are you the financial manager! Do you realize of it and don't you do him/it? A point in less for Sam, he/she thought Pious.

"Unfortunately the decisions of this level are not up to me, you/they must be taken by the board of directors and, you know as it is. Sam abbass the voice is the president of the Morarano that the managing director is men of the president, the decisions to that level are political."

Recovered points? Difficulty to say him/it, could be indeed doing them some dangerous confidences, as it was able, simply, to be leading the Khan for the threshing floor. That astute air made to slant Pious for the second hypothesis, even if with reserve.

Definite to try with the matter of the carrots but the takings to the wide one.

"Therefore from next year the production passes to the two new mines?"

"Yes" Sam responded "by now Ankazo it is exhausted, but we have more than 4 million tons in the two new mines, and I am there, other small layers, can arrive then, to over 5 million tons of reserves."

"I have seen the production of the last years" taken back Pious "I am around 300.000 tons a year, with this rhythm also 5 million tons are enough for less than twenty years."

"Already, teacher, she has touched an aching key, if we want that the mine brings wealth to the Country we must use the proceeds to make to grow the infrastructures, to diversify the production and to start new countries of prospecting, otherwise Brieville in twenty years will be again a desolate moor. Has you/he/she seen? To the mine there are decent residences for the workers, current electric and running water for everybody and also a small hospital. They also bring us sick from distant villages 100 km."

Sam spoke well and seemed to take really to heart the interest of the population. Pious definite that could earn at least two points.

"Unfortunately it is not easy, he/she knows, matters politics. However I/you/they have succeeded in starting the prospecting for the gold and, who knows it is not said, that a tomorrow he doesn't succeed in also finding new layers of cromite. Besides I am trying to also establish on our railway line a service momentary, and I transport various commodities, not only cromite. To the moment if he/she wants to travel on our railroad you/he/she must sit down on the heaps of cromite" concluded Sam smiling.

Pious he/she thought about Emile and the gold of which he/she spoke. Who knows if reason had saying that to Brieville it was very little of it? And then where Emile was? You/he/she was not done alive anymore. However the indication to new layers of cromite allowed to Pious to enter the matter that interested him/it.

"I understand, signor Fox" you/he/she will have been correct? Or would you/he/she have had to call him/it doctor? Boh! It is all right so, we don't subtilize, definite Pious. "Certain, to find new layers needs to make prospecting and it results me that in past it did a lot of, besides the layer was studied in detail with kilometers of surveys."

"Yes it is true, to Ankazo I/you/they have been done around 80 surveys, deep from the 20 to the 130 meters. On the other hand it dealt with a series of separate lenses, difficult to delimit. It is, rather it was, the single greater layer of Madagascar. It is not invested anymore today unfortunately. Fortunately, for Bemankevina we have surveys and study done in the years'70. Now he lives of income and it is robbed what is, the future is not thought to."

The voice of Sam had changed. Pious it was perplexed: but what financial manager was it if could not decide anything? Definite to reach the firm ground.

"But the sections geologiche can be seen? And the carrots?"

Sam seemed for an instant to hesitate, undecided, then he/she answered.

"Unfortunately everything lost has gone at the end of the years '90 when, with the collapse of the price of the chrome, the mine has been closed for 4 years. Fortunately the ingegner Ranakotsobo, the manager of the mine, has been able to follow the mining bodies, him Ankazo knew her/it to memory."

Bum, this you don't give her/it for me to drink, less 5 points expensive Sam, thought Pious. The carrots have gone lost and for years the extraction has gone on to memory, impossible to believe us.

Pious it turned him into a statue of salt and it quickly started to make calculations to mind. Well, we say ago 100 survey meters of average for 80 surveys 8 km of carrots. Even if they are carrots from 2 thumbs, every meter of carrot they are around 2000 centimeters cubes, that, to 4 grams on centimeter cube, makes 8 kilos to the meter. Multiplied ago for 8000 meters carrots 64 tons. 64 tons of carrots are not lost as it was a lighter that slips you from the pocket. Eh no, dear Sam, doesn't fall there.

Pious resurfaced by his/her calculations and him made account that Arianna had intervened for distracting Sam. You/he/she was asking him as they did the chemical analyses. Franco had disappeared. Who knows if you/he/she is robbing from some part the sections geologiche, it found again him to think Pious, and with his/her shame, hoping indeed us.

"Then we can talk to the technician of laboratory that analyses do?Arianna was saying "we do Us her with the X rays fluorescence, but we would like to try to compare her with analysis, done on the same champions, with the old method for by damp that you use."

"Unfortunately the technician is not now here, I leave her his/her mail so you/he/she can contact him/it from Milan, however only in French, I am sorry you/he/she. The thing interests a lot however us, I am trying to convince the suggestion to buy a new fluorescence to install to Brieville, we cannot keep on certifying analysis with such an inaccurate method."

"Very well we will remain in contact, and for French somehow we will do" Arianna responded.

A fluorescence to Brieville. To Pious the atomic absorption of the polytechnic of Tanà came to mind, abandoned and dusty. If it went so to Tanà let's show up us to Brieville. The problem was not so much the car, the money to buy her/it them they had of sure, the problem was the qualified personnel, the environment of clean job and not polluted and the supply of the materials of consumption. But it is not said, even the privacies would have succeeded where university had failed.

At that time Franco reentered.

"You excuse if I interrupt you, however it would be better if we went, we must pass to pick up Silvana, to go in the hotel to prepare us and to reach the restaurant and they are almost already the 1730."

"Any problem" Sam responded "we will see tonight however there and then again we will remain in contact."

They quickly greeted and they went out. How by chance - but how much by chance? - Emile was transiting for the corridor. He/she cordially greeted the three and it held back him with Pious an instant while Franco and Arianna went out. It made him slip in hand a cardboard, evidently a visit ticket, and it said in a low voice.
"Writes me, we remain in contact."

How much contacts! Pious it started to feel a picture of control. Immediately involved by the conspiratorial air of Emile, he/she answered in a whisper.

"Of accord, I just write her arrival to Milan."

They greeted with a handshake and in few second Pious it reached Franco and Arianna to the auto. The driver abandoned the negotiation, that had evidently established with a seller of dry fish and you/he/she fell him in auto, launching himself/herself/itself to speed sustained for the streets of Tanà.

They reached the restaurant, in the tall part of Tanà, not in the building of the queen vattelapesca - Pious it was not able certain to pass the evening to try to still remember the name of the notorious queen - with the good taxi that had found out of the Den Plaza. Instead of the usual Citroen two horses or Renault R4 held together with the string, had chosen one, as many old but surely more stately, Citroen CX. Silvana, with the excuse that you/they were not us in the in five, even though spacious, taxi, had not wanted to abdicate its beneamato Remy and it followed them on its tottering R4.

The restaurant was a real oasis of luxury, unimaginable to Tanà. A modest, but well garrisoned entrance from a watch armed with club, conducted in a spacious garden, luxuriant of tropical plants. The supper had been prepared in a square room decorated of draperies of velvet, decidedly out place in that tropical Country, busy to the center from an enormous round table.

Sam Fox came them meeting smiling and ceremoniously dealt him with to introduce them to two characters how Pious you/he/she had never seen. It seems it dealt with tall poppies of the office of the mines.

"It still misses someone" Arianna said in a low voice approaching himself/herself/itself to Pious "there are eleven places to table and till now we are alone in eight."

"And all the Malagasy are dressed by penguins. You and I are of big long those suits worse, tonight" it hissed Pious in a whisper.

Although it professed to despise and to refuse the whole tied up label to the attire, so much to be made a boast not to know how to make the knot to the tie, Pious it strongly felt him to uneasiness in formal situations, in which it was the person worse dressed. And, since this was punctually verified to every formal meeting, Pious you/he/she had decided that were the formal meetings that it didn't bear.

Pious and Arianna was making some hypotheses on who the companions of the president were: Pious it slanted for of the lackeys or portaborse, that dir is wanted, while Arianna thought about a wife and a child, when the three, preceded by an evident quiver among the personnel of the restaurant, they entered the garden. Once more it was Sam Fox to make the presentations. They were amazed again, decidedly they had some strong preconceptions. The president he revealed to be a chairwoman, the Doctor Rafolointra, accompanied by a secretary.

"Lackey, anything else other than secretary" it whispered Pious to the ear of Arianna "one to zero for me."

The third character was the most mysterious. Simply as Monsieur Mozamaranado was introduced but, evidently, of the whole party was the most prestigious. It seemed it squirted power from all the pore. A thick build, but not particularly tall, short hair, evidently impomatati and an air of sufficiency that it trespassed in accondiscendenza toward everything and everybody.

You/they were made to arrange according to an order of places that, if there was probably, to Pious it escaped, also because the round table didn't help certain to understand what the hierarchical relationships were. Pious it found again him with the secretary to his/her left and Arianna to his/her right. Unfortunately you/he/she had not succeeded in talking to Franco to ask him who pits the mysterious Mozamaranado.

The supper was delicious and abundant, of taste French, to base of vegetables and meat, rich of gravies and sauces that accompanied the dishes. Evidently something of good person French had left, sinned however that it was alone for the elite of the Country.

At the end you/he/she had served a mixed dish of Malagasy sweets to base of vanilla and cocoa, that were a poetry. Pious, that had followed already few the discourses, always in French, and you/he/she had intervened only when you/he/she had been in demand, he lost completely in the aroma of vanilla and in the intense and intoxicating taste of the cocoa.

At the end of the supper and after the long and respectful customary regards, Pious definite to finally ask to Franco who was that Mozamaranados. He/she remained disappointed in to see Franco climb on an auto that you/he/she had never seen, but evidently one of his, considering that it was driven from Michel, his/her driver.

"Boys, excuse but I must escape, my wife is not well, you/he/she has sent the auto to take me. Tomorrow morning they are from you at seven o'clock and I bring you in the airport, good night."

You/he/she would have had to hold him the curiosity at least for the whole night. Had Sergio perhaps known something from Franco, Pious it waited that they climbed in the taxi and he/she asked him "Sergio, but who was that puppet impomatato?"

"The puppet in matter seems both an a lot of man next to the president."

All the men of the president, thought Pious, a film that you/he/she had never seen, despite a lot of Dustin Hoffman he liked it. It needs to make up for, who knows that I/you/he/she help to understand because that ball of Mozamaranado was so inflated.

During the journey of return, to the sudden one, Pious you/he/she was taken by cramps to the abdomen: it was an attack of fulminating dysentery. Possible that had to happen him really the last evening? And with twelve hours of flight that waited later it for the morning? It entered hotel folded up in two and it begged all the others to deliver him, as soon as possible, all the pills, drops and tablets against the dysentery that you/they possessed.

"It is an urgency" concluded, and he/she saw them all and three to disappear in the elevator, while he set out to the bath of the hall not succeeding in reaching his/her room.

To the exit from the bath, and with an ache of belly that also kept on holding folds up him in two after having freed, Pious you/he/she had called to the hall. But what these do you/they want? Don't they see him/it how I am? It is not enough embarrassing? No, it was not still enough embarrassing for that evening. To the hall they told him that there was a person that asked of him.

"But who? But where?he/she " succeeded in articulating to work Pious among the spasms.

"Behind of her" it said imperturbable the standing character behind the bench.

Pious he turned and it froze. With a beautiful printed smile in face it came him meeting one of the girls of the Indra, the disreputable disco where you/he/she had been attacked. It was tall no more than one meter and a half and Pious he/she vaguely remembered that you/he/she had clinged him and you/he/she had not been easy to free him of it. And now? he/she thought, while another sharp pain folded up him/it to the height of the girl. You felt on the looks of the whole personnel, fortunately the three vasàs had been climbed to their rooms. But they will reach from a moment the other with the medicines! The thought crossed fulmineamente the mind of Pious.

In the meantime the girl had drawn near and you/he/she had tried to embrace him/it.

"Mon cher" it said.

Was The situation tragic, but as you/he/she had done to find him/it? Surely you/he/she had asked to Remy where you/he/she had brought the vasàs. Anything else other than the my dear Remy! In a lightning they passed him for the mind the most atrocious tortures to which you/he/she would have wanted to submit the unlucky taxi driver.

But there was no time to lose, definite fulmineamente that only money would have saved him/it, it will be also the dung of the demon, he/she thought quoting a book of Massimo Fini read recently, but that now I/you/he/she help me.

Did it tell the girl - but as it called? probably you/he/she had never known him/it - that she was nice and delicious but that he was bad. You, that had probably realized that didn't deal with a lie, told him that it didn't have the money to return home with the taxi. Pious definite that was the moment in which the dung of the demon would have saved him/it. It extracted from the portfolio two banknotes from 10.000 aryaries, a figure with which also a vasà would have been able to make a couple of times the turn of the city, let's show up us a Malagasy that paid everything very less, and it put her in the hands of the girl. Definite also that you/he/she could say a lie to be saved of obstacle, for which churches to the girl to return the next day, that he would be felt better surely. In the meantime you/he/she had curled up on an armchair, it started really to feel Mr Bean in one of his/her best sketches. Fortunately the girl seemed to be satisfied of the money and of the promise, you/he/she shot a kiss on the forehead of Pious, by now you/he/she was so folded up that the face was hidden among the knees, and it got further with a "To demain, mon cher."

Pious it lifted the face that so much that succeeded for making sure that the girl had gotten further and you/he/she found again him of forehead the look worried about Arianna.

"As you are, Pious? Why are you folded up this way? Have I brought you the medicines of everybody, do you want to take her now? Do I bring you a bicchier of water? And who was that girl? But do you know her/it? I would say of yes, from as you/he/she has greeted you."

If there was a thing that he/she sent Pious on all the furies be overwhelm of questions when it was badly. How am I? Why, is not he/she seen? If I am done so perhaps fold up it is because I am badly, it doesn't seem you? Or do you believe that am looking for cigarette butts of cigarettes under the couch? No, look, the medicines I take her tomorrow! I swallow her so, so much they also go down without water! The last two questions the drop that had made to overflow the vase had been then, to work it said "Give me the medicines and not to hinder you."

"Ah, so you thank me? It is all right, I go to sleep, I imagine that I/you/he/she don't serve yourself a hand to climb. Good night, to domattina. if I/you/he/she arrive to us.

Pious it didn't reply, it waited that Arianna disappeared in the elevator and then, supporting himself/herself/itself to crowd you and walls, slowly it followed the same run. It waited him/it for a night of tregenda.

13

"Ale, test to magnify that white dot please, have you ever seen?"

Pious it was concentratissimo in front of the screen that returned an image in black and white, where spots of various form and different tonalities were entirely distinguished of grey. Ale, as many assembled, he/she sat to his/her side and it fumbled on a keyboard.

"Which? That aloft to the left to the edge of the cromite?"

"Yes, that, good. It will be still magnetite, but better verifying him of it. Possible that this cromite doesn't even have a platinoide to pay him/it?"

Alexander Specchi had been assumed by few to become the new technician of the electronic microsonda. It had few more than 20 years and a teppistello air of outskirts: hair to the shoulders, ill-made beard and furbino look. But, despite the prejudices some all - these didn't evidently stop him to Madagascar and, rather they also penetrated insidious, in the university environment - you/he/she was revealed of an extraordinary ability. In few months you/he/she had learned to boss an extremely complex instrument, governed by a sophisticated software, that him interfacciava with the consumer through well four interconnected screens, that made his/her posting similar to a console of spaceship. Pious he/she knew well that could trust of him: although you/he/she had never studied mineralogy, you/he/she well hardly mistook the evaluation of a mineral on the screen, that postponed the electrons image retrodiffusi.

"It is magnetite, Pious, guaranteed to the one hundred percent and however it is too much small to do a good analysis, they will be a pair of microns" Alexander said while you/he/she was zooming on the white dot.

"Yes, it is all right, but a rapid EDS to verify him of it is us."

"Ok, sees now" Alexander answered and made to depart the analysis in EDS, a qualitative analysis that, in few second, you/he/she returned a ghost of intensity through which you/he/she was possible to individualize the present heavy elements in the crystal. Alexander succeeded from that ghost in determining the mineral one in matter, also giving, entirely, a glance to the position and height of the various woodpeckers, without not even identifying to that element they belonged. In that case the answer was really simple.

"Only iron, Pious. It is magnetite."

"It is all right, enough so then you make the analyses depart?"

The technician consulted for an instant one of the screens and said.

"They are 58, us will take a couple of hours, then I make the change you sample and we begin with the next three sections. Tell me what you want to put."

Pious he approaches to a tavolino, where you/they were leaned, on the supports, the thin sections of rock that, together to Arianna, you/they had made to prepare and studied in the preceding month. Those that had chosen for the analyses to the microsonda had a darker metallic surface, because you/they had been covered by a thin layer of graphite that made her conductive, essential operation because the car, whose principle of operation founded him on the electronic bombardment of the mineral one to analyze, could free then some electrons in excess through the surface of the section, producing a tide to low voltage.

Pious it selected three sections and it put her aside pointing out her to the technician.

"We do these, Ale."

"Of accord, we see us to lunch and then, at two o'clock, I think that we can take back."

"Ok, see you later" it said Pious, that had not realized that was almost midday. It was always so with the microsonda, the time passed in a flash. And it was a true misfortune, he/she thought Pious, kept account than it costs the time it plots. You/he/she had appropriated a good slice of his/her own funds to analyze the picked champions to Ankazomotala, fortune that Ale was extremely efficient and the car could be programmed for working alone the whole night. This allowed to perform only also hundreds of analysis in a day.

Pious it climbed in his/her office and definite to exploit the few minutes before the break lunch for the nth phone call to Sergio. It composed the number and it confided in the fortune, it seemed that Sergio lived in symbiosis with the telephone, at least two bystanders of the times that you/he/she had tried to call you/he/she had found him/it the busy line. You/he/she had been all right, the telephone felt him ring, Sergio he/she answered to the third ring.

"Ready, Pious, hi, tell me in hurry that I/you/they are in reunion."

A thought flashed in the mind of Pious, that Sergio was a follower of some secret sect? Possible that the few times that he/she succeeded in always reaching telephonely it pits in reunion? And with whom gathered so often?

"Sergio, meant you that today we have begun the analyses to the microsonda on the champions that we have picked up to the mine and that I have brought with me in suitcase, which, I remember well you, they are cost me a box of the best Malagasy chocolate."

Pious he/she didn't succeed in digesting the fact yet that to the customs an agent had started to make histories for the champions that it had in suitcase, despite the letter on headed paper of the Morarano Chrome, with so much of ministerial seals, that it authorized them to bring them with itself. But, above all you/he/she had been perplexed on as the thing, you/he/she was resolved. The agent the backpack of the hand had opened baggage of Pious and individualized three wrappings of Malagasy chocolates, that Pious you/he/she had bought to the airport to give them to friends.

"One for me" you/he/she had said and a wrapping of chocolates had quickly disappeared under the counter, dopodiché the customs officer had seraphically closed again the backpack and, with a smile to all teeth, you/he/she had made sign to Pious that was everything to place, you/he/she could go. Pious you/he/she was felt defrauded of one personal object of his: rather you/he/she would have paid in money. It was about to protest, but Arianna that stopped him/it and it told in a low voice quickly him intervened that the box had paid her 10.000 aryaries, 4 European, and that it was the least greedy mazzetta that could be imagined, better throwing straight.

"Pious? Pious.?

It was Sergio, that complained his/her attention to the telephone.

"Yes, I am here, I wanted only to tell you that we are working, but if the champions of sand of the laveria don't arrive, we cannot make anything to appraise the plant."

"I know him/it, Pious, I will call once more, I had told him to send them for DHL, even if they are more than 60 kg, but that is stingy you know, you will see that they will arrive soon."

"If I have well understands you are telling me that they have not departed yet, and we are to December 4. We have returned from more than one month: it looks that the champions for a scientific job I have them, those of the laveria serve above all to you."

"I know him/it, I know him/it, now I think it, hi Pious excuse, feels there" and Sergio attacked again.

Pious he/she was interdicted to look at the cornet that held in hand, while the anger climbed on him inside. It was at least the fifth phone call in the same tone, and that it ended equally, and Pious it was convinced that the tightwad, if, pits Sergio. After having made some theater with the Malagasy ones now it didn't have anybody hurry to analyze the picked champions. Rather, he was probably, developing a bleak it throws and rubber band in which Sergio tried to get the cromite before still spending money to analyze the champions. Definite that the only thing to be done was to directly contact Franco in Madagascar.

While it was directing him toward the office of Arianna, Pious it considered to the Malagasy customs officer: One for me, one for you, a tune years seventy of who knows who started to beat him in head.

Arianna was normalizing her first analyses of the morning so that to intervene in real time on the analyses programmed for that day, if you/he/she had been necessary. Pious it knocked and it leaned out to the door.

"Then, great novelties? Have we discovered the gechite? Remembered that these champions are cost me a box of chocolates."

"No gechites, Pious, not yet at least, and then at all you will want to put you to the equal one with the raccoglionis that smaniano to discover a mineral and to give him their name?"

"Is never, will we call him/it morinite then, or do you prefer ariannite?"

"Bushels trying to give me some raccogliona? It looks that gate the file."

"And I burn you the giraffe."

An enormous giraffe in rafia, resulted, to a careful measurement, taller than Arianna of three centimeters, you/he/she towered in the angle of his/her office, after having comfortably traveled from Tanà to Paris and from Paris to stretched out Milan in the hatbox of the airplane. Decidedly the purchase effected to the Digue of which Arianna went more fair.

As always it was Arianna, from the greatest practical sense, to interrupt this exchange of what is suitable.

"The preliminary results say: not even a platinoide, nothing mineral strange or not identified, the cromite has a chrome between 58 and 61%. The most notable thing they are the silicatis that accompany him, many and different. We have found a lot of pirosseno both garden and clino, little olivina there is then anfibolo, serpentine, talc, at all and, in a champion, plagioclasio. Of alone solfuri two pentlanditis and a pirrotina."

"Well, good, the strangest thing is the so tall cromite in chrome, good for Sergio. But do you know him/it that the champions of the plant have not departed from Madagascar yet?"

"I imagined him/it, behs, are things that interest above all in them, us the champions of the mine we have them."

"Yes, but I would like to understand us something of the plant and then, with all the strange turns that are. I would not want the champions to make the end of the carrots.

"But no, from the, it has them Franco to his/her house, at all they will disappear"

"We hope. You give, we go to eat, they are almost the twelve and thirty."

"It is all right, I close everything and arrival."

Pious he turned, crossed the few meters that separated him/it from the elevator and it premised the button. It was an old elevator but inexplicably endowed with a system to booking how Pious, in years and years that you/he/she had used him/it, you/he/she had never understood as it worked. What was some is that, often, taking the elevator to the first floor and pressing the key of the according to found again him in the underground, from where someone had booked. You have captured me, it was the customary what is suitable.

The elevator this time arrived in few second and Pious and Ariannas entered starting himself/herself/itself toward the kitchen, a room equipped with two electric stoves, a microwave ovens, a refrigerator, a sink and a table, to which could sit down about ten people.

Pious it heated him to the microwaves a portion of lentils, it recovered the set them to the peperoncino from the dispensation and the parmesan cheese from the refrigerator and it arranged him to his/her usual place, to halves the long side of the opposite table to the door.

That day they were in seven in kitchen, that you/they became eight with the arrival of Ale after few minutes.

"It approaches the door, please" it cackled sinister Valentina, the true leader of the group cooks, that held the account of the abandoned empty bottles and the food expired in refrigerator, shouting then to whoever forgot to wash a dish or a silver ware.

"I close?timidly Ale " asked.

"I have not told you to close, leave leaves half open her/it" Valentina specified.

"Left half open? But done leave half open how much?did it " intervene Pious, that had often the habit to turn the lunches into the kitchen in a sort of theater of the absurdity, "and if instead we leave her/it soaperta?"

"Soaperta? Is this good, and as it would be a door soaperta?"

"Beh, so, etimologicamente I would say that a left half open door must form with the threshold an inferior angle to 45°, while a door soaperta one great."

"But from the? Interesting" he inserted Arianna "but then if a door can be left half open him it is also able soaprire."

"Certain" taken back Pious "but the meaning is slightly different, soaprire means to increase the angle between the threshold and the door, while to leave half open means to decrease him/it, independently from the initial value of the same angle."

"It was better when you calculated the bricks number of which the building is made at the side, better that bushels silent and you eat" concluded perentoriamente Valentina.

After lunch, Pious, Arianna and Ale returned to program analysis to the microsonda on the new champions. At the end of the day, among those sorts and those programmed for the night, had already in dance well 190 analyses.

"I would say that it is not badly for an alone day of microsonda" it said Pious without addressing particularly to Ale or to Arianna.

"Yes, we have a complete picture of the mine I would say, nine analyzed champions and at least three analyses for mineral principal on every champion" Arianna specified.

"And then the afternoon has been more fruitful, from the, we have found two platinoidis."

"Yes, but so small that analyses are disgusting."

"Not to pick you her with the microsonda up" Ale intervened, to defense of his/her tool "you have seen well that didn't arrive to two microns and, the bundle of electrons necessarily, takes inside also part of the mineral ones that is around him."

"Yes, I know him/it, Ale, and however it doesn't do him certain a publication with two analyses, even if of platinoidi. Arianna, adjourns tomorrow there to with the complete analyses, now we go home that we are cooked."

"It seems me a good idea" it made Arianna lifting himself/herself/itself from the chair "I have the screens that turn around me."

"To me it will turn qualcos'altro if they don't send us the champions of the laveria" concluded Pious, that didn't have really digested the phone call of the morning "to tomorrow."

14

Pious and Ariannas sat in the narrow space of the office of Pious, in front of the screen of the computer, Pious on his/her chair and Arianna perched on a stool.

"Analyses are all to place, this morning Ale has passed me the file and I has already normalized her everybody. You open that files excel, I have put every mineral in a different sheet, dividing him/it for champion. In that other file I have put every champion instead in a different sheet, but I don't know if and how much maid."

"Good, good job and, above all, rapid. Then those slow would be us government!"

"If it is for this I have already made the graphs for the cromite, they are in the sheet of the cromite, under the analyses."

"Indeed?" Pious it quickly brought him on that sheet, after all to travel in the microcosm of the mineral ones with the microsonda was some as to sail to the discovery of continents, it was a world to discover; the analyses then, to whom knew to read her, they spoke of geologic trials, mantle, magma, migration of elements and who more it has of it more puts of it.

"These chrome I am you really tall in chrome, almost as those Turkish or Iranian, that are the best in circulation, and rather different from those South Africans. Strange, with the South Africa there to two footsteps" it said Pious after having studied for a long time a diagram.

"Then I am already precambriane as those South Africans unlike those Turkish and Iranian that are alpine."

"However the x magnesium is low, from chrome you South Africans and this for them it is a trouble, because it lowers him the relationship chrome on iron of the sand of cromite."

"The relationship chrome on iron?"

"Yes, I have inquired, it is the most important parameter for chrome you to her from steelworks after the content in chrome. The best have chrome on great iron of 2,5 and it would be better however not to go down under two."

"But there are other mineral that contain iron, besides the cromite."

"In fact" it still said Pious "but lower it is the x magnesium of the cromite and taller it is his/her iron content. We cannot say how much the relationship will be in the sand, but this value makes me think that it will be low. Instead the chrome is really tall, we try to calculate the middle value among all the analyses, according to me they reach 60% in chrome."

Quickly Arianna planned the function 'average' on excel and it made to perform the calculation to the program.

"Wrong, it does only 59,62% " concluded.

"That is, practically 60. But do you understand what he/she wants to say?"

"In that sense, excuse?"

"In the sense that the assembled of sand of cromite sold by Morarano has the 48% of chrome and, since 48 are him 80% of 60, it concludes that, in that assembled, there is still the 20% of discard and solo him 80% you/he/she is made of cromite."

"And.?

"And therefore the laveria works rather badly, I am sure that a best surrender can be had. We must study, Arianna."

"It is not better to assemble us on the genesis of the chrome you and to draw a beautiful publication of it?"

"That we will do him/it of sure" taken back Pious "however we can also launch us on the laveria, everything because, however, the AM has paid us the trip for that, then because, according to me, we can publish on some magazine more also applied this job and finally because there is always to learn and the awake and active brain maintains him. You enough?"

"Yes, me enough, above all if the AM finances us the analyses, as you/they has promised."

"Meanwhile we start to study us for well the Billy Willy, I have picked him on purpose up"

"From the, has you/he/she arrived? And if then the champions don't arrive?"

"They arrive, they arrive, and if don't arrive you study him/it for personal culture" it still said Pious handing to Arianna a volume of around 400 pages, nicknamed from Pious Billy Willy because it was author of it a some William Will. It was an essay that touched all the possible processes of enrichment of the mineral one extracted by a mine.

"I make the photocopies?"

"Yes, if you want, made her bind in copisteria, I hold the original one."

Pious it started to make to see to Arianna which capitulates they treated of the enrichment gravitativo and, particularly, where it talked of the tables to shake, when the telephone took to ring.

"Hello?"

"Ready, Pious? I am Franco."

Here that Franco had anticipated him/it calling him/it from Madagascar. Pious it feared some bad news and did it hasten to ask "Everything well, as are you? And do chrome you to her? Don't tell me that something has happened to the champions."

"Everything well, Pious, the champions are at my home in the laboratory of geotecnica. Sergio has told that we send them with the first container of cromite, that should depart from Tamatave next week, in theory you/they should arrive to her half Spezia January."

"Provided that the container departs!did he/she " answer Pious "the contract is to place? Do the Malagasy ones maintain the word?"

"Everything to place, however Sam Fox insists that you send the results on the laveria as soon as possible and we have told us him that before they make to depart the cromite and before they will have the results."

Just as Pious you/he/she was waited, their job was commodity of exchange in the negotiation between Morarano Chrome and AM. Then we must open the negotiations between University and AM, he/she thought Pious, if they want the study gives us some penny, it is not enough free for us the trip in Madagascar. At least you/they were made a week to the sea, probably they were the only Europeans to have gone to Madagascar without never seeing the sea.

".Sergio I cross, but I have preferred to also feel your opinion before answering Franco you/he/she was saying.

No, at least during the intercontinental phone calls you/he/she could not lose in his/her thoughts. But was not there way to recover this time, or perhaps yes? To Pious it flashed the image of a film with Diego Abatantuono, that of the first times, thin terrone after all, that simulated a telephone interference in a phone call from Hungary.

"Excuse, excuse Franco I don't feel well, is the line disturbed, thing you have said?"

Franco seemed not to suspect the simulation of Pious and patiently repeated.

"I said that this morning you/he/she has called me Romeo, you/he/she has told me that you/he/she has received dispositions, directly from Mozamaranado, to send the champions to Milan for DHL to expenses of the Morarano Chrome. They would arrive by air in a couple of days. Sergio doesn't want, because it says that then they would pretend the results before making to depart the cromite. You that I/you/he/she think of it?"

Then this Mozamaranado was really the hidden eminence that he/she took the true decisions to the Morarano Chrome. Pious it was instinctively about to answer that it was a splendid news and that they immediately sent them, so their job would not have been commodity of exchange, when a thought made him/it already stop to open mouth.

"I believe that Sergio is right, we wait and let's send them with the container, but there will be someone trusted to put them in the container? You know, I don't trust me."

"If it is for that not to worry you, I will directly go to Tamatave and I will put them same in the container, well sealed and anchored to the wall."

"Very well, Franco, in the meantime we have started to make microsonda on the champions of the mine, then we will send you the files for mail."

"It is all right, Pious, I wait for them, I am curious. I will make you know when the container will depart."

"Perfect, hi Franco."

"Hi."

"It was Franco?Arianna " asked.

"Yes, it was him" and Pious it reassumed for Arianna the phone call with Franco.

"Because you have not wanted that sent them for DHL?he/she asked " him her at the end.

"Because I don't trust me, that champions could tell us interesting things on the laveria and, perhaps, someone doesn't want us to discover her. Rather the fact that is prepared to also pay them to have them among the hands is particularly suspicious."

"It is only perhaps an idea of that sly person of Sam Fox to unhook our job from the consignment of the cromite."

"You/he/she can give him, but in the doubt better not trusting. It would miss us that someone tampered with the champions, it replaced them or it made them disappear."

"It is true, then it touches us to wait for January."

"Half January, and only if they send indeed next week. We hope."

"We already hope," and Arianna got up, taken with itself the Billy Willy and it went out of the office.

15

"The potential of acidificazione, in conclusion, it is a fictitious value that is calculated considering the possible worse conditions in the respect of the safety criterion. It is important to remember that the factor moltiplicativo of the way of sulphur of the champion is calculated on the reaction stechiometrica of the transformation of the pirite in sulphuric acid, really because it is the most efficient reaction, among those that involve common solfuri, in to produce acidity."

Pious it looked at the clock to the wall. Despite it had been being broken by now for years, he/she didn't succeed him to escape to that automatic gesture. It asked therefore the customary question.

"Boys, what times am I/you/they please?"

"The 4,32" a masculine voice responded from the fund of the classroom, always the same one: decidedly it was the most impatient student, or, more simply, what risked to miss the train.

"We stop here then there, the day after tomorrow we will see the mineral ones that collide with the acidity and the mechanisms through which this happens, good-bye."

Pious it went out of the classroom and it quickly directed him toward the staircases; the elevator, as it more often happened always, it was spoiled. It reached the plain earth and it risked him along the staircase that brought in the basement, obstructed of antediluvian monitor, broken chairs, furniture old and other well identifiable objects not, also for the often layer of dust that covered them. On the other hand in absence of the elevator that was the only street of access to the basement that didn't pass from the outside and, with the rain that fell sharp pain, to pass from the outside was not certain convenient.

Pious it reached the laboratory grinding where from some days a trainee was busy to sieve the champions of sand of cromite. You/he/she would have had to end that afternoon. In fact in the laboratory there was no anybody. The pouches with the different granulometries were lined up in beautiful order on the table set to the wall of right. Good, he/she thought Pious. The time to turn and he/she saw all the sieves piled up on the table leading, among the can of the distilled water and the car to ultrasounds, that it served to clean them to fund, after the first washing with distilled water. Unfortunate, he/she thought this time Pious, it waits that I/you/he/she come to ask the credits of the apprenticeship. Luckily that Eleonora, the technician responsible of the laboratory, was busy with Arianna to the fluorescence, otherwise Pious you/he/she would be had to sip a beautiful pull. He was responsible of the kept behavior in the laboratory from his/her laureandis and training.

What to do? To clean the sieves? They were eight, in the car to ultrasounds two were only of it. Four passages it meant at least a hour and half and then, if Eleonora had seen him/it, the pull would have done you her the same, adding a point of sneer because he was trying to hide the misdoings of some trainee of his. Definite to hide the dirty sieves in the closet and to send a mail to the poison to the trainee, imposing to come her next morning to clean everything.

Finally Pious it reached the laboratory where Eleonora and Arianna were sfornando the data of fluorescence on the sands of cromite of Brieville.

The champions had reached the first of March to the Spezia, with the first containers of cromite. The two months of delay could almost consider him a result discreet date the situation and the origin of the containers. Pious you/he/she personally went to the I bring of the Spezia with a permission of AM and you/he/she had loaded on his/her auto the three sacks of champions.

Since then you/they were spent two weeks, during which Arianna, the trainee and Pious, lessons and other appointments allowing, you/they had prepared about ten tablets for the fluorescence and sieved kilos and kilos of sand. By now Pious it knew the memory flowsheet and they were him clear all the passages that brought from the ghiaietta of the silos of stoccaggio to the assembled of commercial sand.

Needless to say that in those two weeks Sergio, after months of silence, you/he/she was done alive almost continuously, asking, soliciting and, above all, bothering not few Pious. Possible that that man didn't have the least consideration of other people's job? And then it gave too things for you discount. Pious he/she remembered as, from neolaureato, you/he/she had found a temporary job near a great geologic study. There his/her superior forehand, an engineer, kept on talking of the job and of the firm to the first plural person, trying to make to pass the image of a great family where all had involved equally, in the interest and in the good of the firm. This was obviously the excuse to ask sacrifices not remunerated for pure team spirit. Sinned that a couple of months later, as predictable, Pious you/he/she was found in the middle of a road, and from the good of the firm nothing had not drawn.

Sergio now repeated the scheme, making wide use of an us how Pious it didn't even feel some and, rather it rather irritated him/it. The firm was his or them, to Pious it was not clear not even that, and its was the risks as the earningses.

Finally, the first results now, arrived. The calibrazione of the car was to point after days and days of attempts and adjustments, during which Eleonora was revealed precious. The tablets were ready and deprived of imperfections. The sifting had also been completed and the next day Stefania, the trainee, would have passed him the data granulometrici.

Pious you/he/she had chosen for the first series of analysis to the fluorescence the most important champions to understand the efficiency of the plant. The ended product, realized first of all through the accurate miscelazione and the quartatura of all the champions of ended product taken to Brieville. Once more the principal problem you/he/she had been to assure that the two grams of thin ground sand used for the tablet were representative of the tons of assembled in stock to Brieville. It was a long and boring, but essential job. Needless to say that Sergio, didn't certainly have her/it of it, although least idea.

The other champions were the assembled ones and the incoming sands to each of the eight sampled tables in total 17 champions. But we are not superstitious, you/he/she was said Pious.

When Pious it entered the laboratory the fluorescence it was firm. For an instant it feared the nth breakdown, on the other hand it was such an old tool that nobody knew the precise age of it, esteemed by Eleonora in base to the model, between the 25 and the 30 years.

Fortunately he mistook. Eleonora and Arianna were intente to analyze the results, tabbed on perforated sheets, spit out of an old needles printer, the only one that succeeded to interfacciarsi with the car.

"Good news" Arianna said "the standards come very well, the relative error doesn't overcome him 1% for any element and for the chrome it is alone of the 0,3% ".

"Finally! Also Stefania has finished sieving, tomorrow you/he/she should bring us the definitive results, then we can plan the analyses on the single classes granulometriche."

"You want to give us a glance now?Arianna " taken back

"No, I wanted only to verify me that we had succeeded there. Thanks, Eleonora, without you we would not have arrived from any part."

"We look tomorrow then at them?Arianna " continued.

"Yes, together with the data of the granulometries. Tomorrow morning I have two examinations and then I must pass in didactic reception office; we do in the afternoon, immediately after lunch."

"Then to tomorrow I bring the copy that we have made some flowsheet, so you can mess up her/it how much you want."

"Good idea, to tomorrow, hi. Hi, Eleonora."

Pious it returned in the office, closed all the open fileses on the computer and it extinguished him/it, closed dopodiché the door to take, behind of it, the flexible parasol. There was not, you/he/she had to have leaves him in auto the last time that had rained. This meant that would be bathed completely to reach the auto, where they waited for him/it well two umbrellas, absolutely useless. The correct thing to the correct place to the correct moment: it is alone this that it misses me, he/she thought Pious wearing the jacket. Over how rainy, the day was unusually cold for the second halves March. As if it was not enough it was Monday, day of market and the auto you/he/she was parked distant. Pious he threw on the collar while it was going down the staircases resigned.

16

It seemed that the spring had decided to respect to the minute the calendar. To the 14 of March 21 the sky was clear and the clear air. The temperature had been climbed at least of ten degrees in comparison to the preceding day and only rare spots of wet they were still to testify the rain, that was fallen sharp pain the evening before and in the first part of the night. The study of Pious it was in faint light, the lack of curtains and the south exposure they forced, in the days of sun, to lower the blind. Thin and dazzling strips of light struck the open flowsheet on the desk. Pious you/he/she had moved the monitor and the keyboard in an angle to make him/it be.

"It is not possible" it said Pious to Arianna, that sat nearby him grabbing the calculator for the nth time.

"Pious, it is useless that the calculations you refer, we have done them with excel and already referred with the calculator three times, the numbers they are those."

Pious, discouraged, it threw with a gesture of anger the calculator on the desk and takings a sheet.

"No, Pious, this no" started over saying Arianna "if you want to put to make you all the accounts to hand I get up me and I go, call me when you have ended. We are not at all to the age of the stone, the computers will be stupid but the calculations know them to do."

"Then it is the fluorescence that doesn't go."

"If you tell him/it another time I call Eleonora and you see her/it to you with her. The standards come very well all, you know well that Eleonora has been working us for days. And then if there pits a systematic error this should not influence that accounts, that would return the same."

"Hmmm, and if the fluorescence had had an instrumental drift?"

"Yes, really, it stays stable months and then, in three hours of analysis it goes crazy, without counting that the most important champions I have crossed again this morning again them, I have told you him, and everything equal stays. Maximum difference doesn't reach the 0,5%. Even to have of it of tools that works so, above all later more than twenty years of honorable of service."

"Mah" Pious it felt that it was about to surrender.

"And then the granulometries don't even return!" resumptions without pity Arianna "you want to say that the sieves have the instrumental drift? And as it happens? Do the holes widen and they tighten according to the champion that you make us pass?"

It was too much, also the irony no, it didn't stay whether to surrender to the evidence.

"It is all right, I surrender me and I don't have any intention to tell nothing Eleonora, you know him/it how much touchy is. We look for rather to give a sense to all of this, recapitulates."

Pious it put again the sheet of paper, printed on a side, on top of the battery of the sheets to be recycled, it moved the calculator and it bent him on the flowsheet.

"In first place if we take the ways of the assembled final and of I discard him/it final, their average you/he/she should be equal to the way of the incoming sand, at least if it is worth the principle that the subject is not created neither he destroys" to that Pious point it turned him toward Arianna bending the head and looking her/it from above the glasses "unless you don't want to invoke nuclear reactions. To which we would have discovered that the plant of Brieville is in reality the place where the Malagasy government prepares him to build his/her atomic bomb."

"From the, cries her/it, I have never said this, I say only that the accounts don't return but the calculations are correct and, above all, analyses are correct."

"Let's give well it for, strengthened once and for all, then. Unfortunately we don't have the course of I discard him/it, for which cannot do a weighed average but kept account that the assembled one has a 48,03% way and I discards him/it a 12,44% way it would result a total surrender, that we have calculated here of it" and Pious it pointed out a cell of excel "of 73,90%. On the other hand we have also calculated the surrenders of all the tables and their average, weighed for the courses, ago 79,96%. Does Arianna, explain now, me as it makes the total surrender to meaningfully be inferior to the sum of his/her parts? Or the surrender of the tables?"

"You say that a difference of few more than 6% is a lot?"

"It is not a lot: it is too much. The two values in theory should be equal."

In theory, theory and practice they are equal, in practice no, he/she thought Pious, it was who knows a sentence of who, that had received before for electronic mail a few times.

"However" Arianna taken back "there can be a lot of errors, we have for example sampled only one of the three series of tables, even the other ones have a lower surrender. There is then the whole part of recycling of the mix with the spiral and the other tables, of which we don't know anything. Doesn't it seem you?".

"Good, correct" he/she answered Pious "however it is not true that of the recycling we don't have anything, we have the champion of the assembled one."

"Yes, it is true and we have analyzed him/it, it has the 47,64% of chrome."

"Not very different therefore from the assembled final, however I don't know this as I/you/he/she can help us."

"Already, really, there is always some since it misses."

Pious it did him thoughtful, he/she remained some minutes I fix on the screen, that the page brought excel with all the data, dopodiché it seemed to receive him.

"Who knows if they miss only the data."

"That data should miss?it " made Arianna

"It looks here" it said Pious, ignoring the question of his/her dottoranda "we have the course of the incoming one and that of the assembled final for which we can calculate the total surrender, using the courses, in way independent from as we have done using the ways" it cracked index and thumb and it grabbed the mouse.

Arianna looked at intenta the screen.

"Here, the surrender is of 65,57% ".

"So low?"

"Already, so low!it " said Pious rubbing himself/herself/itself the hands "the surrender of the tables is almost of the 80%, but the total surrender of the plant is few more than 65%, here is the since we were looking for."

"And the 73% surrender that you have calculated before?"

"That I have calculated her in base to the ways and the principle according to which the subject is not created neither he destroys, these it is not measured instead they are two made measured. Now, since the surrender we calculate her/it as the relationship between the course of the assembled one and the course of the incoming one, the question it is as it makes the total surrender to be of around 15% lower than the surrender of the tables?"

"Beh, can be that the surrenders of the other two series of tables are very lower, or that the surrender of the recycling is very low."

Pious an instant still stopped him to look at the screen and then taken back "for the other two series of tables in theory you could also have reason but the theory and the practice in theory they are equal and in practice no."

"Thing?it " made perplexed Arianna.

"Nothing, nothing, means only that we should hypothesize that the other two series have a surrender around 55%, which it seems me well few probable. Three series of analogous tables, a dispatcher that distributes at random the sand and a 25% surrender difference?"

"Already, decidedly unlikely."

"And we must use the razor of Occam."

"Or?"

"Or, between two or more alternatives than different degree of complexity and probability, we must choose that that can explain the phenomenon in the simplest way."

"And which would it be?"

"It waits for an instant that we arrive there. There is another sorpresina. As we have calculated the surrender of the tables?"

"As the relationship among the course of the assembled one and that of the incoming one, equally of the total surrender."

"Then I ask well you, and the mix?"

"The mix we have not considered him/it."

"Therefore have not we considered the whole recycling, correct? And then thing happens if the recycling recovers part of the material of the mix adding him/it to the assembled final?"

"Accipicchia! It happens that the total surrender increases."

"Really! In few words, gives the existence of the system of recycling, the surrender of the tables should surely be smaller of the total surrender, instead is great, and of a beautiful po!'".

"Unbelievable, and then?"

"Then we use the razor of Occam. I propose you two solutions: the first one is that, casually, the series of tables that we have sampled works well, or better, discreetly, but of this we speak later, and it gives an assembled very similar to that final. Vice versa the second series of tables has a low surrender, to this point, kept account of the due raising of the surrender to the recycling, would say that the other two series of tables cannot have a superior surrender to 50%. Everything this without there is evident differences of some type among the three series. And then, dulcis in fundo, despite the other series has a low surrender, the ended product has a way in chrome similar to that of the first series, from which he/she is deduced that the other two series produce, mysteriously, with such a low surrender, an assembled that it is entirely similar to that of the first series."

"It seems me enough unlikely" Arianna intervened.

"It waits, I have not described you the second solution yet."

"And which would the second solution be?"

"It would be that part of the assembled one disappears."

"Now you are you that you don't believe in the principle of maintenance of the subject. What do you want to say?"

"We admit instead, now, as it seems logical and reasonable, that the three series of tables work equally. How does it make the total surrender to be lower than the surrender of the tables, despite the recycling you/he/she should increase her/it instead?"

"As it does?" to this point Arianna was waiting for the verdict of Occam and didn't intervene anymore, if not to solicit Pious to continue.

"There is only an explanation: part of the assembled one is subtracted, and before reaching the ribbon final conveyer."

"From the, it is not possible, if it is so, with the razor of Occam I cut there the veins."

"As you want, but fault in house, that the sight of the blood makes me impression."

"From the, Pious, it is not possible, and where does it disappear?"

"This I don't know him/it, however, according to me, if we try to refer the same reasoning with the granulometries we reach the same conclusion, and so we also cut the head to the bull as it regards the reliability of the analyses."

"From the, I do him/it me. But, Pious, do you think indeed that someone steals the cromite? But as they do?"

"If I/you/he/she think of us, this would also explain a series of things that it have happened to Brieville. If someone steals the cromite, that someone can be him frightened and to have tried to prevent us to sample. In effects you/he/she has been right, really thanks to the sampling we have unmasked him/it. And for few second! You/he/she has been astute to stop the fittings, but we have succeeded the same, thanks also to your façade in the cromite, to take the course of the assembled final."

"This would also explain the sibylline sentences of the ticket of Paul, the trucks that disappear."

"If someone steals the cromite, it owes, then, somehow, to bring her/it street. Already that it steals the cromite it will also steal the trucks."

To that point it was the time of Arianna to jam thoughtful, for then to continue to tall voice his/her thoughts "but the trucks it is not that they are easy to be hidden, at all I am bruscolini, and then the plant we have turned him everything, as do they do to make to disappear the cromite between the sieve and the final ribbon?"

"Yes, this is really a beautiful mystery, will think there."

"And then this explains only halves the ticket of Paul. Does thing enter it the carrots? Why have they also disappeared?"

"Of this really I don't have the least idea of it, do I admit him/it" it said Pious "you want to say that my investigator career is already ended even before to start?"

"No, rather I would say, that we must try to understand more of it, already a beautiful po' of wedges have started to go to place, we see to place the others and to see that image there is on the puzzle."

"Arianna, from when you use so pregnant metaphors?"

Arianna looked Pious with mocking air "with you it is never understood if you speak seriously or you take for the fondellis. You give, pass me the file adjourned that tomorrow I start me making the accounts on the granulometries."

"Good, I bet there a florin against a button that is the same history."

"We will see. But, Pious, thing we do with Sergio and Franco? Do we tell you him?"

"I don't know, in theory yes, in practice the practice is different from the theory."

And it was the third time that exploited that sentence, you/he/she would perhaps have had to find her a place in his/her existential philosophy.

Arianna, that he/she didn't evidently think her/it equally, it seemed for an instant to lose the calm, but well soon it was recomposed and with extreme patience it said.

"Which would be to say?"

"It would be to say that we should tell him him. However is it a suspicious only, and if then Occam is wrong?"

"Thing you do now? Do you discover the intrigues and then before you throw back yourself?"

"No, I want only to say that, if we are right, it is a big thing, we must think well of us. You know that if we tell him/it Sergio that it is able of to build a pandemonium, to that point we would be the persons responsible to have thrown in dance the whole matter, but we would not have the control anymore of it."

"Or even it starts looking for the thief to buy him the cromite."

"It would be really stupid, above all for Franco that lives there, I don't believe that the jails Malagasy is very pleasant."

"If, however, we succeed in discovering us who is to steal we do a favor to the Morararno Chrome, that is that that you/he/she is stolen and therefore the AM should draw an advantage of it."

"It seems me a more practicable street of the preceding one, Arianna, but better going cautiously. For now we start to appraise the efficiency of the plant and to write the relationship."

"Simple" Arianna said "the efficiency of the plant is disgusting, because they steal you the cromite. End of the relationship."

"Thing you do? The indignant one? We start to do our job, in that the rest is more. The data say loud and clear.

".che someone steals the cromite it interrupted Arianna.

To Pious it flashed one of the so many images where his/her idol, Bud Spencer, an annoying interlocutor stretches with a precise, how much nonchalant, cazzotto in head. It lifted the eyes to the sky and, with seraphic calm, it said "it is a pleasure for Me that you are so quickly become a follower of the sublime Occam and, above all, that is converted you to the theory of the plot, on which certain we will investigate to fund, but I would want to remember you that our job consists of appraising the efficiency of the plant."

"Yes, but are those of the true bastards, it needs to stop them, and then thing you want to appraise? It is as to calculate the consumption of gasoline of an auto having the punctured reservoir."

"Something can be seen, rather a lot. The incoming sand to the different tables for example, has very different ways of chrome, he/she wants to say that the idroclassificatore operates a preconcentrazione of the cromite."

To that affirmation Arianna was received and started looking at the screen.

"The way is true it regularly decreases from the table 58 to the 65."

"According to me it is because the idroclassificatore separates for granulometria, but also for density. The material coarse curtains to fall before, together with that denser, for this to the table 58 coarser and richer sand of cromite arrives."

"Then it is not said that the tables of which the goes out assembled best are indeed the best."

"Note, must calculate the index of efficiency of every table keeping in mind of the ways and also of the surrenders."

"Of accord, Pious, I can always do him/it me in the next days."

"It is all right, Arianna, meanwhile we think about thing to tell Sergio and Franco."

"Well, Pious, and then they are already the 16,40, don't you have lesson today?"

"Thing? So late? Certainly that I have lesson. ten minutes ago! concluded Pious, while it was going off from the chair, it recovered the switch with the slides, and it went out in hurry to reach the classroom.

17

The spring made him attend for a long time still after the false departure of that 21 of March. They followed rainy weeks and, often, cold. Pious it was very taken by courses and examinations. In the second semester they were added, in fact, to the university courses, the courses of specialization for the qualification to the teaching.

Arianna heavily worked on the champions of Brieville performing other analyses and, above all, calculating the efficiency of the tables to shake. A full-bodied relationship resulted of it, of around hundred pages, where it showed him as the principal problems of the plant they were two: the presence of the idroclassificatoris that you/they didn't separate well the sand for granulometria, the tables and the wrong regulation of the first tables making less efficient. In the relationship it was suggested, as solution, the substitution of the idroclassificatoris with sieves and the ricalibrazione of the tables, particularly those from the 58 to the 60, that resulted to have the lowest efficiency. Pious you/he/she had carefully wanted to avoid to bring in the relationship the inexplicable low total efficiency of the plant to comparison of the efficiency of the tables. You/he/she had underlined instead as the job of sampling you/he/she had not been effected to the best because of the drawbacks verified him to Brieville.

Pious and Arianna had arranged not to tell anything Sergio and Franco of their discoveries, at least for the time being. On the other hand Sergio it was very satisfied of the relationship and, above all, of the fact that the cromite had started to reach the Spezia with regularity.

To the first of May, a couple of weeks later to have delivered the relationship to Sergio, Pious it directly received a mail from Sam Fox. The commercial manager of the Morarano Chrome sincerely thanked for the developed job and you/he/she assured that you/they would have discussed the changes suggested in the relationship with the technicians and with the dirigenza.

In May it also did unexpectedly him alive for mail Emile. Pious, ascertained that his/her colleague Valentina, experienced of gold layers, were not interested to study the champions of Emile, you/he/she had re-sent before already you them with a letter of excuses different months, not receiving an answer.

Emile wrote that the mine of Bemankevina was giving big problems. The lenses of cromite resulted very more discontinuous and fragmentary than the expectation and the quality of the mineral one it was inferior in comparison to that of Ankazomotala. Emile asked, consequently, to suggest to Sam Fox to mostly invest in the auriferous exploration that, alone, you/he/she could save the Morarano Chrome.

Pious it found very strange that Emile, which had confided him to Tanà that the good layers of gold were those of the north, while those inside the licenses of the Morarano Chrome didn't have future, you/he/she had so drastically changed mind. It simply tried perhaps to find a support for what was his/her job to the Morarano, or in that months it had, indeed, picked of the encouraging signs on the gold in the zone of Brieville. Or, you/he/she had finally thought Pious, it was one of the so many mysteries of that matter.

The problems with the mine of Bemankevina, looked out upon by Emile, they found well soon confirmation with the lottery of cromite that reached her end Spezia May. While all the preceding lotteries were maintained to next ways of chrome to 48%, the lottery of May didn't reach 46%.

In front of such a precarious situation Sergio had announced a reunion in the offices of the AM for the 4 of June.

Pious and Ariannas arrived to the center of the AM in auto. Pious it parked on the sidewalk. For a long time you/he/she had decided that was useless to look for a regular parking lot in that zone, next to the central station, and you/he/she had decided therefore to systematically park the auto in prohibition of standstill, debiting the possible fine to the AM.

In the offices they attended them Silvana and Matteo. This last dealt him with the marketing of the Malagasy cromite. Sergio had not arrived yet.

"Sergio has called me a little while ago, is it still in highway, won't it arrive before twenty minutes" Matteo began "we go to take a coffee?"

The gruppetto of four people reached the cafe to the angle, sitting himself/herself/itself to the tavolinis to the open one, in that fresh day of June.

"Pious, we have big problems with this lottery of cromite" Matteo said with worried air "the clients don't want her/it, they say that to take inferior cromite to 46% you/they must change the regulation of the foundry and it costs too much him, and then the contract foresees cromite that I/you/he/she am as minimum to 48% ".

"Therefore?it laconically " said Pious. It was not able certain to also shoulder the commercial problems of the AM, he was a geologist and as seller was not worth anything.

"Therefore is it an enormous problem, it needs to absolutely resolve him/it, but as it is possible that it has happened? Pious, we must do something. At the end I will succeed in doing him her to take, but I must make him an enormous discount, it will be already so much if we don't put again there."

Matteo talked to avalanche, it seemed really suffering, and perhaps it was him/it indeed, he/she thought Pious. On the other hand thing you/he/she was jumped him in mind to make contracts that guaranteed cromite to 48%? How could you/they think that geology would have become a slave to their demands of sellers? For they knew very well more that you/they were changing mine and the uncertainty it was also therefore great. If the plant had been their you/they would have been able to modify its regulation, to maintain the quality to 48% to loss of the surrender, but the plant was of the Morarano and them they were not even the principal clients.

"Matteo, but thing I can do me? It would need to understand because there has been this decrease. You/he/she could be caused by the lowest ways of the new mine, or from a variation of the mineralogy or the weaving, that you/they negatively influence the enrichment. Or there is some problem to the plant."

"But the geologist six you, touch to you to discover him/it, and above all to find the solution."

"Yes, Matteo, understands, but to do I must go him/it down, to understand the situation, to make a suitable sampling, to send the champions to Milan, to prepare them, to do the analyses, to understand what they want to say, to suggest the correct changes, to hope that Morarano accepts her and, finally, that performs shortly her time. If it goes as last year want us at least eight months. If you put perhaps you of appointment you/he/she can be done her/it in four."

"And who holds them good the clients for four months?"

Mark seemed terrorized and Pious you/he/she started to imagine him the notorious clients of the AM: perhaps they were of the ready zombies to turn you into one of them, even of the vampires but the image that it seemed him more proper it was that of monstrous rapes he/she eats cromite that, if not satisfied, you/they would quickly have eaten Matteo and all those of the AM.

"Hi Pious, hi Arianna."

Pious it jolted: accomplice the apocalyptic images of rape-clients you/he/she had not realized that Sergio had reached them and now it was standing behind of him.

"You have taken the coffee?"

"Yes, Sergio, do you also want one of them?Silvana " said.

"No thanks, I am already enough nervous. If you have ended we go to the office."

Matteo jumped from the chair and runs to pay, dopodiché the five reentered in the office.

Pious he/she was amazed of the fact that Sergio quickly imparted some instructions to Matteo and then he/she invited only Pious, Arianna and Silvana to enter the room reunions.

"Pious, not to pay attention to Matteo, anything has told you, it is a defeatist" Sergio began, while he/she was taking place to a long table in dark wood, around which twelve chairs were prepared. Pious it seated to the right of Sergio with Silvana to his/her left. Arianna arranged him, in turn, to the right of Pious.

"Pious, the last cromite is really very bad, the clients don't want to pay her/it. Are you sure of the last analyses?Sergio " continued.

"It looks, Sergio" taken to speak Pious "in forecast of today's reunion, further to analyze, to time of record, the champion that Franco has sent us for messenger and that Matteo has made us have Thursday, we have analyzed again the champions of April and those of May, the results I am here" and Pious it passed a sheet to Sergio with a press of the results of the last analyses.

Sergio read with attention the sheet, it leaned him/it on the table, he/she read him/it again with dark look and, at the end, it pronounced a weak "That trouble"

"Sergio", taken back Pious "you see him/it from you, the way in chrome you/he/she has gone down from the 48,3% of April to the 45,5% of May and there is no possibility of error, we have made all the possible crossfootings. The decrease has been sudden, all the champions of the preceding months were between 48 and 48,5% ".

"You it is second to thing it is due?"

"It is possible that is tied up to the change of mine, in effects we have also done some diffraction and the mineralogy it slightly results different in May in comparison to the preceding months, particularly best man of the quartz, true Arianna?"

Arianna, that was attentively following, taken by the purse some other sheets, on each of which there was a graph that resembled to a profile of jagged mountains.

"Thing they are that sketches?Silvana " asked.

"I am diffrattogrammi" Arianna responded "they allow to individualize the present mineral phases in the champion, to every mineral it corresponds a series of separate woodpeckers, or better a series of woodpeckers that they often overlap to those of others mineral. But, to do her/it brief, an experienced mineralogist he/she succeeds in reconstructing the mineralogy of the champion and also to have an idea of the quantities in game."

Good Arianna, thought Pious, you/he/she is learning to sell well, at all we are to give acorns to the hogs, us take years of study to do and, above all, to understand those analyses.

"And that the mineralogist says?Sergio " interrupted with a point of sarcasm.

"It says" Arianna taken back, pretending not to have noticed the tone of Sergio "that in May it suddenly appears some quartz together with of the crumbs. Of the quartz I am sure, the woodpeckers of the crumbs, confuse instead him with the natural fund, for which I cannot say with certainty, that there is, but there are probably."

"And therefore? Quartz and can you/they explain the worsening of the cromite at all?"

Pious definite to intervene, Sergio was too much nervous, it was not the moment to exaggerate with the science.

"No, Sergio, means simply that reasonably the champions of May arrive from another place in comparison to those precedents, and this place is not able whether to be the new mine of Bemankevina. According to me you/they have ended the stock of the assembled of Ankazomotala and you/they have started to send out that new, of Bemankevina."

"You want to say that it will be always this way? But I eat them to me! You/they must give me cromite to 48% ".

"I know him/it that they are not my business" it still intervened Pious "but is it so for contract?"

"It is so because so you/he/she had to be, but I don't pay her/it to you and I do you her to pay dear to Sam Fox."

The sibylline answer had not clarified if the contract foresaw a least way. Sergio had always tried to say the less possible to Pious on the commercial part. It earned a lot evidently us, you/he/she had deduced Pious that, in the last months, you/he/she had started to see the collaboration between AM and university in different way. You held less a fortunate researcher that could make free search, thanks to the magnanimity of a private firm, and more a researcher university government simpleton, to the takings with the awful world of sharks of the commerce.

"You have tried to ask to Franco if he/she knows from where the last load of cromite comes?Arianna " asked to Sergio.

"I immediately call him/it, it is him that you/he/she must hold under control the production."

Do I immediately call him/it? But possible that has not asked still you him? Pious it was puzzled, you/he/she had not even come him to mind to ask the question that, instead, Arianna had turned to Sergio. You/he/she had taken for granted that Sergio was in continuous contact with Franco, especially in a situation of the kind.

"Ready, Franco?it was " meanwhile telling Sergio the telephone. It followed an animate conversation, of which the presents could feel only halves Sergio, and that it lasted around twenty minutes. When closed Sergio the conversation, without turning particularly to anybody, said "doesn't know him/it! But as it is possible? I have told him to go same domattina to Brieville, and of run, to verify of person."

"And does it suit us?Silvana " said.

"If it suits us? Certainly that it suits us, I make him/it race. He likes to be to Tamatave to verify the load to the I bring, where he/she eats fish every evening, and then it goes around for cafe and discos with the captain Parascandolo, and meanwhile they rub us to Brieville."

"The captain Parascandolo? And this who is?" Pious it was curious as always.

Incredibly, it looks like the only thought of the captain Parascandolo was able to clear Sergio.

"It is an unbelievable character, I will do you him to know, a Neapolitan captain of ship retired, that is withdrawn to live to Tamatave. It is a great philosopher, of those of great Greece. You have not seen anything of Madagascar and the comic strip characters yet that they live us."

For an instant Sergio seemed to remember something and a smile it curled him as soon as the angles of the lips.

Pious he/she didn't succeed in reconciling the philosopher of Great Greece with the frequenter of cafe and discos of Tamatave, that, to said of Franco, it was the city of the perdition of Madagascar, some as all the port cities. You/he/she would have been interesting to make the knowledge of this character.

"If I have understood well" it had meanwhile taken back Sergio "the cromite of May is certainly lower than the others of almost three points of chrome, for which the clients are right, even if, as usual, that marpiones of the Swede it says that it has the 43% of chrome. but the accounts return, that I know him/it, coffin always of two points to his/her advantage."

"Yes, Sergio, is so" it intervened Pious.

"I have understood, and then you say that surely the material comes from the new mine. And because you/he/she would be worsened?"

"Yes, I think really that comes from the new mine, but we wait for the confirmation of Franco. Because the cromite is worsened it is difficult to say, there would be to do everything one job, us take months and, above all want us the champions, as I have told Matteo."

"But according to you thing can have been?"

Pious to that point it was found in a difficult situation, that to do? To keep on not saying anything of the discoveries that had done? In effects, from when you/he/she had known that the quality of the cromite was worsened, Pious it had the suspicion that the thefts there could be middle. It was not anymore perhaps the case to hold for itself the suspects, also to risk to build a country house as little. Pious it looked for with the look the consent of Arianna, which however it was intenta, or it pretended more probably to be intenta to the study of the diffrattogrammis.

"Sergio" it started Pious "there can be so many explanations, the first one is that the cromitite of Bemankevina both, simply, lower than chrome and that Josephine has not adjusted the fittings. In a situation of the kind it would be necessary to lower the surrender to increase the efficiency. But does lowering the surrender produce him less and as they do him to honor the contracts?"

"You see, Silvana, thing happens to start a woman directing a mining plant?"

"Stop her/it, it goes, that you don't even believe it to what you say" Silvana intervened with voice, if possible, even more hoarse of the usual one "you tell only it to make me become rabid and to make me smoke more."

Why, can you/he/she be smoked this way? It came spontaneous to say to Pious, that however definite to stop and resumptions, instead, with the possible explanations of the decrease of quality of the cromite.

"The second possibility is that mineralogy is different and that the cromite or the mineral one that it contains the chrome, note is lower than chrome, in this case it would be very difficult risettare the plant in correct way, without having all the mineralogical data and geochimici and Josephine nothing it would not have anything to do with it, or at least it would not be able anything it stuffed."

"If it is so we are sold, do we close that we do before" it said, again dark, Sergio "but can you discover him/it?"

"Yes, Sergio, but it take some time, we must prepare the thin sections and to do analysis to the microsonda."

"Do you him possible before."

"The microsonda costs, Sergio"

"Do you her do you her, pay AM, absolutely has to resolve this history."

Well, well, lesson number one, the privacies when they are in the cacca, they also chase money to go out of it.

Pious Arianna still looked, that this time answered with an interrogative look, had not you/he/she understood? Or it pretended of nothing and he/she left to Pious the responsibility to speak. However pits it was the moment to break the delays.

"Then. there would be the third possibilit.

"Another? And must we also pay for that?Sergio had " evidently interpreted in wrong way the hesitant attitude of Pious, that hastened to specify.

"No, no, there is not anything to be paid. However it is. a thing. as to say, some strange. Perhaps we are us that we exaggerate the things."

"Us who?"

"Arianna and I" Pious it was definite to involve wanting or nolente Arianna in the matter.

"Exaggerated? Exaggerated thing? But of thing you are speaking?"

"Here, recently, referring the accounts of the sampling done to the plant, there are aware that the accounts don't return."

"They don't return? In that sense they don't return? But must I eradicate you the things one to the time? Tell me, please, what you have discovered."

Pious he/she explained to Sergio as you/they had realized that I/you/he/she am the chemical data that those granulometricis didn't return and that the only explanation possible pits that someone subtracted cromite, in some point, inside the plant.

Sergio was bewildered and also admired from as his/her collaborators you/they had deduced all those information. The before to recover from the wonder was Silvana, which churches "there is no trace of shortage in the accounts of the Morarano, I have personally checked them. And how much would you/they steal?"

"Not little. Difficulty to say him/it with precision, but from the difference among the surrenders of the tables and that general of the plant I would say that they steal at least the 15% of the cromite."

"Expected a moment" Silvana still intervened and got up, while Sergio kept on fixing Pious and Arianna, alternatively, with absent look. You/he/she had not probably gotten used to be caught by surprise.

Silvana almost immediately returned with a bundle of papers that quickly consulted after being him session "You production of sand of cromite last year has been of 70.000 tons, 15% mean more than 10.000 tons. You/they are stealing 10.000 tons of cromite a year, Pious?"

"You/they are stealing more than 10.000 tons of cromite a year, Pious?mechanically Sergio " repeated. It seemed a sketch of Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, it was too much beautiful to interrupt her/it.

"You/they are stealing more than 10.000 tons of cromite a year, Sergio."

It followed an instant of silence, dense and full of questions, to Pious it seemed to see them as points of question that circled in the room.

"10.000 tons to today's prices are more than 3 million dollars" Sergio was starting to recover. Effect of the money, is enough to name him/it.

3 million dollars fratto 30 dollars a month, ago 100.000, the monthly salary of 100.000 miners or if we want the annual salary of over 8.000 miners, a lot of stolen money to the Malagasy ones, thought in short Pious.

"But as they do to bring her street?" Silvana materialized one of the so many questions.

Pious it was about to say something when you/he/she was interrupted by Arianna that it broke so a long silence.

"You excuse, but does thing enter it the theft with the diminution of the content of chrome of the cromite? A thing is if it misses some cromite, another if the cromite there is, but it is of worse quality. It is not that you/they will have started removing the grains of cromite from the sand."

"Already it is true," it laconically commented Pious. At the same time however, remembering his/her children that gravel did, he introduced him to the mind the image of about ten children Malagasy intents to separate to hand grain for grain the cromite. No, it was not possible, even in the Afrique.

Sergio to this point seemed to have taken back the control of the situation.

"Pious, Arianna, is a big thing this, thefts for million of dollars. We must absolutely be of it sure and, above all we don't tell anything none of Morarano. And even to Franco" it added after an instant, "you/he/she could make some false movement, to send awry everything or, worse, to put on in danger."

Pious he felt extremely lifted by these words, Sergio didn't have intention to make rash things or, worse, to pick her/it to the light one up.

"Correct, Sergio, we will make other verifications, but I already tell you that I don't have doubts on the fact that you misses cromite. I concern to what says Arianna, I would not know and I am not sure that the diminution of the quality is tied up to the thefts, you/he/she could be tied up indeed only to the change of mine."

"And do you have idea of whom could be?Silvana " asked

"I don't know" he/she answered Pious "certain, we are all aware of it, to Brieville you/they have tried to put us the batons among the wheels, and I think that it has happened really to avoid that we discovered that that then in effects we have discovered."

"Of sure you/he/she must be us middle someone who is to Brieville. Josephine, for example" Sergio said.

"Yes, Josephine because it is you unpleasant" Silvana interrupted.

"No, Josephine because it directs the plant and, if the theft happens in the plant, difficult to think that has not involved in the matter. To how much I have understood the theft you/he/she must happen in the plant, correct Pious?"

"I believe really of yes, difference is among the sand, that we have sampled in entrance to the idroclassificatoris, and the assembled final, that falls from the ribbon, that is in the laveria, there is no doubt."

"Then, for now you look for all the possible confirmations of the theft, wait then what it tells us Franco of the cromite that has arrived there in May. Later we will decide only what to do."

"There is also the matter of the carrots" Arianna added.

"Still? Which matter?Sergio " said.

"The fact that, to, how much seem all the carrots of the surveys have mysteriously disappeared" he/she specified Pious.

"And this that enters it with the thefts and with the quality of the cromite?"

"I would not know" concluded Pious "however, of strange things are at least three of it: in first place the thefts of cromite, or better, the fact that the accounts don't return because it misses cromite and us we think is stolen. Does this happen in the plant, but as? Where? And above all who? According to point, is the quality of the cromite in May suddenly decreased, because? Do they enter it the thefts? Or does it enter it the change of mine? Or both the things? Third point, does nobody want that we enter to the data of the surveys, that have disappeared completely together with the carrots, because? Who has made them disappear? Are The carrots there? Where am I/you/they?"

Pious realized to have ringed such a series of questions to have, dejected good person probably, departs some question marks that circled in the room.

"The things are changed, and not few" concluded Sergio "we try to understand as the things they are and then we will act accordingly. I beg me, nothing must slip out for now in Madagascar, we have to understand before who is with us and who is against us. Open eyes and let's care." Sergio to this point got up, the reunion was concluded. Pious and Ariannas greeted all, inclusive Matteo that had an interrogative air and offense, and they set out to the auto. Would you/they have found the fine on the windscreen?

Sergio did him alive the nine of June, Franco you/he/she had been from Sam Fox to Tanà before and you/he/she had received confirmation that the stock of May originated from Bemankevina, even if, slightly gives the inferior quality some cromite of Bemankevina, you/he/she had been mixed with around the 20% of cromite coming from the small layer of Telomatina, put in production for the occasion. Sam didn't explain him the analytical results, that pointed out a diminution of the way of chrome. It assured, rather, that, really because of the change of mines, you/they had decided to invest some money, and you/they had sent a series of champions to analyze in Canada. It was really following these results that had established the correct proportion of cromite from Bemankevina and from Telomatina to mix, so that the product sent to the laveria it was the most similar possible to that of Ankazomotala.

The day later, six, Franco had departed for Brieville, where you/he/she was stopped up to the morning of the eight. In the two days there spent you/he/she had visited the mines of Bemankevina and Telomatina, the laveria and the stock of cromite sampling the incoming product and the assembled one. You/he/she had followed then the operations of load of the cromite on the trucks and the transport up to Morarano, where the cromite was transferred on the train that brought her/it to Tamatave. It seemed all to regulate, certain it could happen anything to the long journey from Morarano to Tamatave, however Franco guaranteed that once to Tamatave the cromite of AM came stab in the site of the AM, where you/he/she was checked to seen by trusted employees of Franco.

To how much it seemed the trip of Franco to Brieville nothing you/he/she had not resolved, if you/he/she had made the situation even more entangled. The confirmation was had that the new product mainly derived from Bemankevina but, at the same time, a new mine had appeared, Telomatina. The affirmations of Sam Fox seemed to confirm that the decrease of quality had to be, somehow unknown, tied up to the thefts. If it were true what said, the cromite had been checked in entrance to the laveria, so that to assure that it was analogous to that of Ankazomotala, the plant had remained the same without changes, for which the decrease of chrome of the assembled one seemed inexplicable. And if what said Sam Fox had been false? Was it him to throw it spins her some production, possible that nothing of the thefts didn't know? The situation was really tangled, you/he/she could not be trusted anybody.

The following days were characterized by a rent exchange of mail among Pious and Franco. Franco had sent for messenger the champions of the new incoming cromite to the plant and of the new assembled, withdrawn by himself. Pious it also hoped to be able to have the sands separate of Bemankevina and Telomatina, but Franco explained him that the miscelazione happened awry some plant of grinding, practically introducing in the first crusher a bennata of cromite of Telomatina every four bennate of cromite of Bemankevina, for which two separate sands didn't exist.

Besides Franco wrote to Pious that Sam Fox had spoken to him of the layer of cromite of Ranomanano, in the jungle of oriental Madagascar, cultivated for brief time from French in the years '60 and soon abandoned. This layer had the advantage of distare less than 30 km from Tamatave: Sam proposed to make him/it study from the university and then to exploit him/it in a sort of future joint between Morarano and AM.

Pious you/he/she had spoken to Arianna, which had replied session of it.

"A layer in the jungle of Madagascar! But do you know him/it that the jungle of Madagascar is the place of the Earth with the maximum biodiversity, after the coral barriers? And do you know him/it that in Madagascar of the native jungle he/she remains no more than 10% of it? And do you want to open us a mine? But do you know him/it how much lemuri I/you/they am there there? What end will you/they do?"

"Already, the lemuris, have been in Madagascar and we have not even seen one of it."

"For strength, but do you return yourself account that the zone of Brieville 100 years ago, and perhaps less, was it a jungle full of lemuri? And now you have not even seen one of it."

Pious he/she was already seen on the first pages of the newspapers as 'the known exterminator of lemuri', or it was imagined pursued by a ship of Greenpeace. But as it was possible, if he didn't even possess a rowboat?

It came to save him/it another mail of Franco that flashed really at that time on the screen of the computer of Pious. Franco wrote that you/he/she had still seen Sam, which had proposed to also exploit together the mines of Beforonama, in the north of the Country, put very worse logistically in comparison to Ranomanano, but greater and of sublime quality. Franco concluded asking to Pious to go to Madagascar to still sample the laveria of Brieville, in the hope to identify the cause of the decrease of chrome, for then to visit and to sample Beforonama and Ranomanano.

"Thing we do?" churches Pious "Beforonama is in the steppe of the north, there am not there lemuri and you cannot accuse me of lemuricidio."

"If there is from me to go I come, but of the mine in the jungle I don't even want to feel speak of it."

"You feel" taken back Pious, to which a genial idea had come "if the mine in the jungle we leave her/it there where it is, sooner or later someone suits us and your lemuris if it does them roast. We go there instead, we make a beautiful sampling, from which we draw an article on a good magazine, in which we say that the quality is very bad and that, despite the proximity to the I bring, it is not worthwhile neither it will ever be worthwhile to open a mine, so the lemuris we save them in the centuries of the centuries."

"Pious, but it is a despicable behavior."

"But with who bushels, with the lemuris or with the sharks? Does the goal justify the means, or no? You will see that Greenpeace will give us a medal."

Pious it was not very convinced of what was saying, so much more than you/he/she was not felt a lot never next to the positions of the ecologists, it entirely interested for now him to convince Arianna to go again with him to Madagascar. Arianna, tempted in turn by a trip, that, this time, you/he/she would also have brought them on the coast and in the wild north, it didn't seem to want more than so much to insist on his/her positions.

"It is all right, we go" concluded well soon "but you are careful to what you do with the jungle."

"Correct, the jungle is the jungle" and Pious it got further humming the tune of Sandokan.

The last words of Arianna, howl while he got further they struck him/it with a lash.

"Is remembered that on the coast the malaria there is, and also the yellow fever! We must make all the vaccinations."

The second trip to Madagascar was programmed for the end of June and it would have expectation three parts: in the first one you/they would have gone to Brieville to try to resolve the situation, in the second you/they would have gone to Beforonama and in the third one to Ranomanano, in everything around three weeks.

Naturally, the second and the third part depended, in crucial way, from the first one, since both the consignments foresaw the support of the Morarano.

The champions sent by Franco reached Milan on June twelve and Arianna he/she succeeded in preparing them and to analyze them to time of record, with the complicity of Eleonora, that annulled two days of bookings of the fluorescence, which flood resulted up to end month, with the excuse of technical verifications.

The results confirmed all the suspicions of Pious: the gotten sand mixing, in opportune proportions, the cromite of Bemankevina and Telomatina was in effects very similar to that of Ankazomotala. It slightly differed for a great content of silice, tied up to the presence of quartz and for the presence, in reduced quantity, of potassium, entirely absent in the preceding champions and, probably, due to the crumbs, that contain quantity meaningful of it.

On June fifteen Sergio phoned to Pious.

"Pious, he/she listens, I have talked to Sam Fox, it says that he/she would want ufficializzare the collaboration among AM, Morarano Chrome, University in Milan and Polytechnic of Antananarivo. Would he/she want that the thing also took a dress didactics, of exchange of students, could not you bring you a pair of tesistis?"

Pious it was almost about to lose the control to the telephone.

"Sergio, the tesistis are not ninepins of the bowling, that I go there and I bring away a pair of it!" But as you/he/she was been able him that image to come to mind? You/he/she had never felt to speak of someone that was brought away some ninepins by a bowling. After the first reaction by instinct, Pious it started to reflect to the speed of the light: certainly two tesisti reimbursed in Madagascar is a beautiful hit, I make us a beautiful figure in suggestion and to the degrees, and they earn us to them an unique experience, that will count a lot on the curriculum.

".a Tamatave.

Here there risiamo, who knows thing had said Sergio while you/he/she was being lost in its thoughts, therefore definite to shoot at random.

"Therefore would the students also be completely reimbursed by AM?"

"Certain, have just told you him!"

Well, he was riagganciato.

"But you were not in rout with Sam Fox for the history of the low way of chrome?"

"Yes, but they are them from the part of the blame and I have torn him a low price for the next lotteries, price that he/she will be unchanged if we succeed in resolving him the problem, for which. let's give us to do, Pious, there is to earn a lot of money."

"For me, enough that I/you/he/she assure me that we will be all reimbursed ones, me, Arianna and the two students and that, in the accord to four, AM puts us some funds for the search and for the theses."

"Yes, Pious, it is all right, calm, you find two valid people, that then we pay."

But what discount had you/he/she made Sam to Sergio? Dark give darkness of a couple of weeks before, this last had passed to the enthusiasm and the frenzy of now.

"A last thing, Sergio, with the situation that is I don't want to bring the students to Brieville, at the most we make him to make the theses to Beforonama and Ranomanano, Brieville it seems me dangerous."

"I don't know what Sam will think of it, we go down and then we see how they put on the things, to the worse we make them go where you say."

"Then of accord, I try there, but I don't guarantee anything. The lessons are ended, around students are few of it, and to find someone of it that accepts the thesis and departs for Madagascar in the turn of about ten days is not so banal then."

He/she knew to put down her hard, in reality it knew many students that would have accepted on two feet a thesis in Madagascar completely reimbursed: let's show up us all fat that strains.

But does it strain this fat from where? he/she thought Pious and the images of mummies of monks came to mind it hung in an underground to Palermo. It seems that the monks, once dead, they were suspended for the nape to a hook and allowed to strain their fat up to turn into shrunken mummies. While the gruesome image seemed to have materialized on its retina, Pious, as predictable, you/he/she was distracted by the words of Sergio.

"Pious? Is it all right? What do you do, do you have doubts? If the things are all right I fill you with money, you try to resolve the matter of Brieville."

Sergio had evidently exchanged the absorbed silence of Pious for a hesitancy, better this way.

"It is all right, Sergio, tries there, but I doesn't guarantee anything, and for the official collaboration want us at least three months of technical times."

"Of accord I understand, you are government, however you make immediately to depart everything, before we begin and before we arrive there. Hi, Pious."

"Hi, Sergio."

Pious hung the receiver and definite immediately to put on looking for the students, it went out of the office and it reached the library of mining layers to the plan. If someone studied there he/she wanted to say that it was interested to the layers. It opened the door and it found you two students that had followed his/her course that spring and that, seeing him/it, they lifted the eyes from the dispensations and they greeted him/it in unison.

"Good morning, teacher."

"Good morning, boys."

Silvia was a total and natural blonde, from the clear skin, at first sight you/he/she almost seemed albino. Thin as a nail, he/she talked to a strong accent bergamasco. Also Ludovico was bergamasco, but of the province, one of that students from the serious air always and intenta, but whose questions, to lesson, they were always not to the height of the attitude. Pious it didn't understand as Ludovico it didn't realize to be ridiculous with that funny lock of hair in forehead. The whole time was few and that two boys they were not so badly. Pious it detained him to look at them, perhaps they were a step away from to begin an extraordinary adventure and, at that time they didn't have the least idea of it. Pious it started to reflect on how much important to be was, often in casual way entirely, to the correct moment in the correct place. But was the fact casual indeed what time same to turn the proposal of exotic thesis really to that two students? Fortune helps the audacious ones and perhaps even more the perseverant ones. They there were, they were there, they studied there, they lived the university and, therefore, at the end, it was natural that an occasion happened really to them, Pious he/she remembered to often have seen them in the library.

"Something that doesn't go?Silvia " asked, and Pious him made account that from at least five minutes you/he/she was staring at them from the threshold without uttering word.

"Nothing, is Silvia, studying? Must you give an examination among brief?"

"Yes, Prof, doesn't his, remember him? Next week, 25."

As always Pious he/she didn't absolutely remember, fortunately it was before the departure for Madagascar: it absolutely had to check the notebook and to systematize all the appointments before departing.

"Yes, certain, memory" it shamelessly lied "I wanted to say if you have other examinations after mine."

"Me no" Silvia answered, immediately followed by Ludovico.

"Not even me."

"Then you can come well in Madagascar. Does it interest you a thesis on chrome you to her of Madagascar, with trip, room and board, all paid?"

The two boys appeared enthusiastic and they accepted session. Pious it addressed them from Arianna to have you compare more precise on the type of job to be developed for the thesis.

A couple of days later Pious, dragged from Arianna and together with the two students, it crossed, threatening, the door of the center for the study of the tropical illnesses. Arianna had won.

18

They departed in five: Pious, Arianna, Sergio and the two students, Silvia and Ludovico. The absence of Silvana worried Pious not little: who would have been able to contain Sergio?

This time they flew with the Air Madagascar, flight directed from Milan to Antananarivo. It was really amazing: the company of Malagasy flag, endowed with two only aircrafts ray, had decided for a long time to open three drawn intercontinental from the capital: on Paris, Milan and Bangkok. If Paris explained him with the historical bonds between France and his ex colony and Bangkok with the flourishing market of the gems, of which the capital thailandese was the principal center of clearing, as he explained Milan? And then because Milan and not Rome?

"It is the charm of Italy" Sergio had said, sure as always to have the correct answer and, as always, patriotic "and Milan because it is the capital of the fashion."

"It is not that it will be because many Italian tourists go to Madagascar, above all Milanese?you/he/she had replied, a little patriotically, Pious.

In effects the flight foresaw a port to Nosy Bé, the island on the coast nordoccidentale, capital of the Malagasy tourism, with so much of tour operators and resort with Italian cook. Pious it horrified to the only thought.

"If we succeed in tearing a few days, we make us some vacation" you/he/she had told to Arianna during the port Nosy Bé "but absolutely not here."

"At least this time the sea we should see him/it, however if it escapes better us a few days of vacation, we will make us recommend from Franco" Arianna had responded.

Pious, that had learned to know from the inside the Countries that you/he/she had visited for job, supporting himself/herself/itself to local geologists and traveling well away from the routs of the tourism, he/she didn't succeed in conceiving the packet tour vacation operator all inclusive anymore. It seemed him an opportunity wasted to know really the place that visited. And true Madagascar, that of the countries and of the mine, of the bidonvilles and of the disreputable places, although a difficult experience, was priceless in comparison to a classical vacation to Nosy Bé.

Taken by these thoughts, Pious it looked with pity air the groups inclusive all of transit in the small airport of Nosy Bé. As it often happened him, that moment of self-satisfaction provoked the riaffiorare of a myriad of doubts, at all it was not a supporting devotee of Professor Bellavista, character Neapolitan follower of the philosophy of the doubt, gone out of the pen of Luciano De Crescenzo. 'Beware you of those that have too certainties' the Bellavista told the cinema translation of the book. Who has healthy doubts it is not dangerous, sinned that you/he/she is usually overpowered by the people of the certainties. Who doubts curtains to be tolerant and contemplative, but unfortunately the world is in the hands of the assets and intolerant.

In short, Pious it started to wonder his/her attitude it was not from snob. It was a privileged, because you/he/she could travel in Madagascar in different way, more depth, more truth. And this did yes that it looked from top down at those people, that, they simply traveled probably in that way, because they didn't have a job as his. You suddenly felt to pervade from a sense of shame. Truth was that he felt superior to those people, and only because it was a privileged.

Fortunately he/she thought us about to throw him/it out of that abyss of self-injury a lady of the group vacations, that he/she sat in front of him with her husband and two children, which you/he/she was saying with appalling Milanese bauscia accent.

"Dear, you/he/she had told him/it the Gianni that was better the Réunion, more exclusive, if here the place is as the airport I take the first flight for the Seychelles."

Anything else other than a privileged, the privileged ones were them, bauscia full of money, that didn't have any interest and anybody desire to know the Country that you/they visited. If he were there, there was because you/he/she had studied as a damned, you/he/she had always been the best and it did a difficult job and of responsibility, in the best of the ways.

When you/he/she was called their flight, Pious it set out toward the exit completely reassured: he felt superior because it was superior. Or no? Here it is, the doubt that returned to bother him/it, don't all the extremists so also think her/it? For which he was not better than them, he/she thought that an unique truth existed and was sure to hold her/it in pocket, to does her/it of professor Bellavista.

Pious it spent the last two hours of flight, up to Tanà, in complete silence, it was absorbed in his/her ethical-philosophical matters.

The arrival had not been very different for the preceding time, Sergio it put the usual trucchetto to revolve the tail to the visas and the customs into effect. This time however they also transported a big pipe that contained the point of a penetrometro, a tool that served to Franco for his/her jobs of geotecnica and that it consisted in a cylinder of long steel over one meter, with a strengthened conic point. Something that, at first sight you/he/she could resemble to a bazooka, even if, perhaps, only because none of them had seen nearby never a bazooka from.

The pseudobazooka was loaded on the cart of Arianna that was pushing him/it toward the exit when you/he/she was stopped by a police officer that he/she asked her to open that strange cylindrical container. To the sight of the unusual tool, the police officer called reinforcements, you/he/she came out from there an animate discussion in Malagasy and French, incomprehensible to Arianna which, to this point, lost the patience. You did wide among the police officers, it recovered the tool, it placed him/it on the cart and it set out toward the exit inveighing against the police officers, that were making her waste time. The all, obviously, in Italian. It is not clear if it were for the congenital fear that you/they have the Malagasy ones toward the vasàs, or because struck by the initiative of a woman, done it is that Arianna with the cart on which the pipe towered, crossed the customs without further obstacles and reached Franco that waited for them over the barrier.

After the customary regards, Franco made them arrange on his/her auto and delivered them. This time didn't deal with the Den Plaza, but of the well more modest Chalet des Roses. It was a small hotel in the tall city, managed by an Italian with an Italian restaurant to brief distance, with the same name and managed by the same owner. Evidently Pious it had a too low attitude, not suitable to his/her role of university teacher, for which Sergio, after having realized, you/he/she had thought well about saving a beautiful po' lowering the level of the hotel than at least a pair of stars. The solution, was not sorry however, to Pious that was you very more to his/her ease that to the pretentious Den Plaza: the rooms were comfortable however and cleaning up, but, there was not out above all the crowd of solicitors that besieged continuously the other hotel. If this crowd missed however it was also owed him/it to the fact that the Chalet des Roses was found in a closed road to the traffic, which you/he/she could be accessed only through a place of block, with so much of bar, managed from military. When they stayed us both him that Ariannas were more incuriositis that worried, on the other hand there east the Afrique: the first thing that is learned in Madagascar is not to marvel of anything. Silvia and Ludovico, that were to the first impact with the Country and you/they had already overcome the shock of the customs, were terrorized contrarily from the roads and from the bidonvilleses of Tanà.

"It is not that they arrest us?Silvia " whispered to Pious.

"You/he/she can give him, you not to move you and not to say anything" he/she answered Pious that, in these breakers, he/she knew how to cynically be wicked.

"But stop her/it" Arianna hissed, that had felt "them not to frighten."

In the meantime the soldiers had made to open the chest and you/they were passing a strange marchingegno under the auto.

"They look for bombs" Franco said.

"Here? Why?" churches Pious.

"You will discover him/it among an instant."

A sign of one of the soldiers and the to get up some bar they were the signal that you/they could go. The auto arrancò in the hold stradina in slope, on a pavé rather disconnected. Well soon it reached a big shapeless building, a kind of enormous white cube, irto of turrets, garitte and boned thread.

"Thing is this monster Franco? A barracks?it " said Pious marveled.

"It looks aloft" Franco replied.

Pious it opened the car window and it leaned out. On top of the building it waved a disproportionate American flag.

"The American embassy? You give, I don't believe it, it seems a bunker."

"They are afraid of attacks" Sergio explained "road block, military Malagasy out and American soldiers inside, do you know him/it that it seems that a brother of Osama bin Laden is hidden in the zone of Diego, where is the majority of the population Moslem?"

That evening they dined to the Chalet des Roses, the restaurant. Italian restaurant and French name, also the vasàs evidently adjusted him to the strangeness of the Country. They also made the knowledge with Marcello, the owner. It came from Guidonia, near Rome, and you/he/she was fallen in love of Madagascar to the point to invest us all of his/her savings, before in the restaurant and then in the hotel, that had opened from not too long.

The menu was absolutely Italian, with numerous types of pasta and pizza. Only local concession: the fillet of zebu, on which refolded Pious.

After supper all went to sleep soon. The following morning, the twenty-eight of June, the eight would be found again to go to have breakfast to the Colbert. To the Chalet des Roses the cafe was still in preparation. You/he/she would have followed a reunion in the hall of the hotel, to make the point of the situation.

A long stairway directly connected the road of the embassy to the plaza where the Colbert was found, a slope of about eighty steps. Silvia and Ludovico were him some reassured in front of the sumptuous sweets of the confectionery to the left of the hotel. Madagascar will be also Africa but it is not a Country where he starves. At nine o'clock you/they had reentered in the hotel.

To the nine and a fourth Sergio you/he/she had called a taxi and sent the two students to the Digue to shop, he/she didn't want that they were present to the reunion of that morning.

"That is an African, but with whom have put? make badly him be here, needs to bring him/it to the civilization!" Sergio mumbled and puffed walking before and back in the hall. They were almost the ten and Franco you/he/she was not made to see yet.

When he introduced it brought with itself a bundle of papers that deposed on a low tavolino.

"Eccomi here you have had breakfast?"

"According to we waited you for you up to the ten for breakfast?" sbottò Sergio.

"You have done well not to wait me, also I have already had breakfast, to house."

"You have become too much Malagasy, but you remember him/it to you that in Europe an appointment is an appointment?"

Didn't Sergio clearly remember that when Pious or were Ariannas brought in AM he introduced late always him, or a head held him with his/her privileges, for which you/he/she was discounted that he could make delay?

Franco, in every case, it seemed not to even acknowledge the complaints of Sergio and it seated opening an issue.

"These are all the consignments of had assembled of the Morarano since January as you have asked me Sergio. I do you present that are reserved information. But to thing they serve us? Do you think that Morarano sells the best cromite to others and leaves to us the discards?" Franco didn't know still of the discoveries of Pious and Arianna, and he thought that the only problem was the worsening of the quality of the cromite.

"Well, Franco, to how much the monthly load amounts?Sergio " asked.

"Beh. It always is not the same, various slightly you see? In January 6240 tons, in February, 6050, and so street, is held always between the 6000 and the 6500 tons a month."

"But these quantities thing I am?" churches Pious.

"It is the cromite that departs from Tamatave, the wagons are unloaded to the I bring in the area stock of Morarano. From here the containers of the clients you/they are directly loaded, or, as we do us that we have our area and our tramoggia, you/they are weighed and moved to the area stoccaggio of the client. These are copies of the register of the I bring that it keeps in mind of all the weights of the cromite that goes out of the area of stoccaggio of Morarano to Tamatave and, since the whole cromite passes of practically it is there the total sold every month."

Pious it had a doubtful look, there was something that didn't convince him/it.

"Sergio, remembers your stock of Brieville? Had you said that according to you they were 5 or 6000 tons true?"

"Yes, more or less, of certain no more than 7000, I have the good eye for those things."

"And is it also true that the mines are closed for three months in the season of the rains, correct, Franco? Then, now that you/they have changed mine, the standstill will also have been longer."

"I have asked to Sam" Franco answered "you/he/she has told me that the production to Ankazo is finished on December twenty-one and in the following week they have dismesso the equipments, above all the pomp of the water, for which now is already a little pond."

How many good-looking disappeared breakthroughs sott'acqua, Pious, but inside of itself it cheered him of the fact that you/they had succeeded in picking up a good sampling of the mine as soon as in time, before he/she closed forever.

"The production to Bemankevina starts the seven of March, this year the rains are ended soon" Franco continued "however, in the first month, you/they have worked to reduced rhythm, but already to April the tout venant from Bemankevina and Telomatina was of around 30.000 tons a month."

"Already. But from this datum few is understood, part of the tout venant goes for the production of lumpy, for which we cannot say how much the real monthly production is of assembled."

Franco looked at the others three rather surprised.

"You excuse, but because all these accounts of the maid? We don't have any shortage of cromite, that that it misses is the quality and you you are to make accounts on the quantity. But because?"

Decided Sergio that was the case to inform Franco of the last developments. It told as you/they had discovered the shortages of cromite and as you/they had appraised them to a 15% of the total one of the assembled one. It was not the first time how Pious it noticed as Sergio it extended to appropriate of all the gotten results, in this case describing the facts as if it were him to have made the discovery.

The reaction of Franco was decidedly unexpected and surprised the others of the group "I knew him/it, I would have betted there, and I also know to whom sell her/it"

"Thing?they " told together all and three open mouth.

"As, thing? The stolen cromite, no? They sell her to that bastard of Smanzi, I told that the accounts didn't return."

"Which accounts? But did you know him/it then already? And have not you told me nothing?" the look that Sergio turned to Franco was threatening.

"No, I didn't know anything, but as you know me the I bring I hold him, nothing that doesn't arrive to me to the ear doesn't happen."

"Well?"

"Well, you know that our contract we have gotten him/it to expenses of Smanzi, he has halved the quantity that he/she bought last year, and that half has passed to us. Why? Doesn't it seem yourself strange? Smanzi had regularly paid always, to how much it results me, any problem with Morarano, then, of hit, they halve him the advantage our quantity."

"Already, strange" Arianna murmured.

"Strange Macché, has passed her to us because we are the best, we give commercial guarantees that the others dream him and we have made him an advantageous contract for them."

Pious it noticed that among the motives listed by Sergio the job of the university it didn't appear, for an instant as Totò felt him that the wood puppet does.

"Here, this is another strange point" Franco taken back "as well you know, and here among us it is useless that you deny him/it, our contract is more advantageous than that than Smanzi. Does it seem you that they remove halves the cromite from a good client, reliable, with which work from more than ten years, and does give her/it to us to a best price?"

Sergio, that made evident sign of no with the head, it was about to say something, but Pious it cut short.

"No, Franco, doesn't seem at all me reasonable, a motive you/he/she must be us."

"Exact, and the ciliegina now arrives on the cake. Smanzi doesn't make container, it loads helter-skelter the cromite in the hold of his/her ships. To the first of May you/he/she has made the first load of the year, 4000 tons, with the usual ship, the Suisse, that last year loaded of it instead 8.000."

"But he/she doesn't want to say" Arianna interrupted "if the ship that has is that, it always uses her, independently from that that position."

"Yes, but the Suisse has a clean tonnage really of 8000 tons."

"You/he/she can already give him that pits for full half" Arianna insisted.

"You/he/she can give him, and in fact the line of galleggiamento was enough low when you/he/she has arrived, however when you/they have started to load the cromite, one of the workers, that I have let from one man of mine of trust intoxicate, has said that, when you/they have started the load, the line of galleggiamento was very taller and the ship had to be empty."

"While instead when the ship has departed it was to full load. The Suisse has probably arrived in I bring with loaded mean of water of sea, that has been replaced then by loaded mean of stolen cromite" concluded Pious.

"Exact, it is what I also think, and in fact I was already concerned me the accounts of the cromite but they seem in order, there is no shortage, so I had thought that Smanzi brought away, of straforo, qualcos'altro, even coal or marble. Ah there is still by the way a wedge, Smanzi not more stocca to the open one, has carefully built a big closed shed to key and guarded."

"That bastard" Sergio almost howled.

"And you as you do to know that the shed is closed and guarded?" churches, instead, Arianna.

"Beh, says that someone is found to pass of there and you/he/she has realized."

"Always with these methods to the limit of the legality, Franco, has told him that you have become a Malagasy, you will make yourself arrest."

"We look for rather to let the thieves to arrest" it told this Pious point "it seems me that there am a serious possibility that the stolen cromite to Brieville ends in the Suisse of Smanzi."

Nobody had suffered the quotation a Spaghetti Western with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, with the sombrero that hid the spy Emiliano.

"We must find Emiliano and to make him/it speak."

"Emiliano?did it " make Sergio that passed from a surprise to the other "and this who is?"

"Nothing, nothing, allows to lose my things. We have to understand instead who the basistis are in the Morarano, as the cromite disappears and as it arrives in the shed of Smanzi."

"Still a thing" Franco looked at them with furbino air that a prank has done and it continued "in the last turn from Morarano they have happened me under the eyes these, it looks, Pious" and Franco extracted from under the battery of papers some sheets in formed A3.

"But they are stratigraphies of carrots" it exclaimed Pious.

"Yes and you read under, it looks from where they come."

"Ankazomotala! They are some of the famous lost stratigraphies."

"Pious, you disappoint me, perhaps it is the emotion. You have not seen all yet, it looks better."

Pious, that was looking question Franco, riabbassò quickly the look on the sheets that it held.

"They are marked to pen of the points on the stratigraphy there, with near one it initials"

"And.?

"And under, with the same biro, someone has written. I find it hard to read.

"It is French, échantillons is written there, troisième de février 2004 or champions, February three th 2004."

"But, but then.

"Already, the carrots exist, and someone has sampled her as soon as some years ago."

"Calm an instant" taken back Pious "too novelties all together. First of all when I have asked you how much the interruption of the production had lasted in the season of the rains, there was a motive. Between January and March they have almost been loaded 20.000 tons of cromite, correct?"

"Yes, are the data here more or less, can you make the sum of the three months Arianna?"

Pious it gave a peek to the sheet and, after having quickly made the calculation to mind, he/she answered.

"I am 18.420 tons."

Arianna put back the pocket calculator that had extracted.

"But the stock of Brieville was, at the most, of 7.000 tons. Another must be us stock from some part."

"Yes, there is" Franco confirmed "you/he/she is to Morarano to the railway station. The ribbon of the assembled one is short for which don't succeed to make very great heaps to Brieville, no more than 10.000 tons, or you/they should move them and then so much is worth to bring them to Morarano. It is a continuous spool of truck"

"Then the big one of the cromite is to Morarano" taken back Pious "how much?"

"You keep in mind that I/you/he/she am to Brieville that to Morarano the cromite is not weighed, he goes to eye, but I assure you that they are wrong of well little. When they want to be more precise they go to truck, they know very well how much hands a full truck. The only weighed it effects him to Tamatave, where the Morarano has one it weighs. They weigh the containers or the trucks, first voids and then full."

"And have you ever seen him the stock of Morarano?"

"The last time that I/you/they have been to Brieville have passed there, but I have not noticed anything abnormal, some that I didn't have suspicions of any type respect to the thefts of cromite."

"We must give us a glance" he inserted Sergio.

"And the carrots that now are reappearances but he/she are not known where? What do you/they enter it?Franco " asked without turning particularly to any.

Arianna to this point cracked the fingers "I also Have me a ciliegina to put on the cake, people."

And now? Where did he/she want to go to protect Arianna? You/he/she had not spoken of ciliegine to Pious.

"Franco, has the general data of the production of Ankazo?"

"Yes I have them, or I have had better the data of the total production since 1974 to today, and in this whole period you/they have always extracted alone from Ankazo."

"Very well, and how much does it do?"

"The data are here, you make the sum."

Pious it was too resentful to help with his/her prodigious speed of calculation. Arianna was held for itself an ace in the sleeve. You looked at him/it and then it extracted again the calculator.

After five minutes it lifted the look from the sheet with triumphant air.

"5.do 230.000 tons, understand?"

"No, don't we understand a beautiful anything" it said angry Pious "that he/she wants to say?"

"You remember that book that we have taken in the library? Les resources minière du Madagascar. It was of 1976."

"Yes, memory."

"On that book the respect of the reserves of cromite of the region of Andriamena was brought, where our mines are, uniforms for layer. The reserves of Ankazomotala, before the beginning of the cultivation, you/they had been esteemed to 8.700.000 tons."

Sergio listened to intent.

"They miss a beautiful of it po' ".

"Yes, exactly they miss of it 3.470.000 tons."

"Three million and a half of tons of cromite! But I am almost a million and a half of dollars!"

"Calm, Sergio" Arianna continued "they are reserves esteemed to a 37% middle way, you/they must be enriched."

"Ah beh, makes only then a million of dollars, are they enough for us, doesn't it seem you?"

What it happened to Sergio? Had you/he/she acquired from where, suddenly, the sense of the irony?

"But have you/they always stolen the cromite from Ankazo then?" resumptions "before you said that they steal her/it from the plant, or even they steal her/it from Bemankevina? I don't understand there void."

To that point the confusion was total, Pious definite that was the moment to throw it spins her some situation: it was his/her habit, when the skein entangled too much him, to stay to make the point, possibly to tall voice, with someone who he/she listened to him/it.

"You are right, Franco, is not understood us void, we try to make the point, also to the light of the novelties of which we have come now only to knowledge" and Pious you/he/she launched a rapids malefic glance to Arianna.

"Stings number one and, I would say, the more main point at least for AM: the quality of the cromite is lowered, from when the production has passed to Bemankevina, of around 3 points percentages, Sergio."

"Already" Sergio interrupted "and we put again there a lot of money, the clients they don't want her/it that stuff to 45% ".

"Well," taken back Pious "rather badly. However it is also true that Morarano will make a discount on the price for the worsening of the quality."

"Macché I discount!Sergio still " interrupted "must respect the contract! What do I do of it of the 10% of discount if then anybody me the purchase?"

"Sergio, please, do you want to finish her/it making the victim that, at least here, nobody believes it? And then as I do to make the point of the situation if you continually interrupt me?"

"You go on" it hissed among the teeth Sergio.

"Thanks" he/she answered Pious.

"Then we said, the quality is worsened by the load of May that certainly it is presumably rather the first load that derives from Bemankevina, to which the small mine of Telomatina is also added. Telomatina, to how much Sam Fox says, you/he/she has been put in production really to improve the low quality of Bemankevina. But then because, if you/they have taken some shrewdness to maintain the quality of the cromite, this you/he/she is lowered equally? This point is very important, because Sam Fox has promised to Sergio that, if we succeed in resolving the problem of the quality, he will keep on selling to AM the assembled one, with the quality restored to 48%, with I discount him/it that, if I have not understood badly, it is of 10% ".

"Here, good, we try immediately to do him/it." Once more you/he/she had been Sergio to intervene.

Pious he became impatient, Sergio didn't succeed really, even for a second, to see the thing in way some detached. Definite to punish his/her pragmatism with a beautiful lesson of history.

"Dear Sergio" it said, after having thrown a depth sigh "during all the most important battles of the history, from Reeds to the Fields Catalauni, from Marengo to Waterloo, the victory arrideva, generally, to whom knew to foresee the movements of the adversary, and you know why?"

"But that it is this? A lesson of history? And that it enters it the history now, while they are stealing me the cromite?"

"It looks that the cromite they steal her/it to Morarano, not to you" Arianna intervened.

"The history is important" taken back Pious, making account not to have felt the words of Arianna "the history is a teacher of life. Therefore the problem of all the battles, up to 1870, it was the difficulty to retrieve information, nobody knew exactly never where the enemy pits and thing you/he/she was doing. Then in 1870 the things started to change."

"Yes? And has thing happened to 1870?" churches, this time I snoop, Sergio.

"In 1870, during the siege in Paris, French, that had just invented the hot-air balloon, used her/it to see the battleground from the tall one and to give, so, precious information to his/her own general."

"From the, strong" Arianna still said.

"And the ethic which would be?this time Franco " intervened.

"The ethic would be" concluded Pious "whether to have a clear picture of the situation and, to succeed in disentangling the skein, needs even, to try to look out her from, Sergio, you are too involved and you always have the tendency to see what you would want to see or what your affairs bring you to see."

"I would want to see! With the money that I put again there."

"It is not matter of money, it is matter that, to understand what it happens to Brieville, we must try to look out at the thing from and, better still, to try to understand the point of view of all those that I/you/they have involved in this matter."

"Really a beautiful lesson, thanks teacher" it told this point Franco.

Pious it was stricken from this affirmation, was you/he/she trying to be a teacher in desk indeed? You/he/she had perhaps exaggerated. Definite to return to the point and to quickly close the discussion.

"We allow to lose the lessons and we return to us. Is the second point that it seems misses different million of tons of cromite of Ankazo thing thought of it?"

"They have perhaps stolen the cromite since 1974" Arianna said.

"In thirty years they would do 120.000 tons a year of tout venant, that is at least 80.000 tons of lumpy and assembled, it seems really so much me" it did Pious shaking the head "however certain we cannot exclude him/it."

"Or, very more simply, in 1974 they hurt the respects of the reserves" Arianna still said.

"This can be another good explanation, some that a 40% error, with all the surveys that have done, it seems really too much. And here we come to the third point: someone hides the carrots of the surveys done to Ankazo, but, in the meantime, someone - presumably the same - few years ago you/he/she has still used her to take of it of the champions."

"You/they have perhaps made to disappear the carrots because you/they would have confirmed the respect of the reserves done in 1974, putting in evidence the theft of 3 million and broken of tons." This time had been Franco to intervene. All listened Pious with attention and in the most absolute silence, now, inclusive Sergio.

"It is possible. Well, in this case, who has stolen the cromite it is the same that has made to disappear the carrots. And here we come to the fourth point: someone is stealing assembled by the laveria, for around 15% in total weight or, at least, it was so last year. Is it the same that has stolen since 1974 and that you/he/she has made to disappear the carrots?"

"According to me, yes" Arianna said "who begins to steal he/she takes us the vice and it always steals."

"To me it seems strange" instead Franco said "the assembled stolen is sold to Smanzi, that he works with the Morarano from no more than 5 or 6 years and then, from the years '70 to today, all the executives of the Morarano are changed more times. Rather, in the years '70 the society was another, the Conima, with French share. You keep in mind then that in the years '90 for a certain period, during the crisis of the chrome, you/they have closed all."

"Beh, would say that the matters to be resolved are these four" concluded Pious "let's think of us on and we try above all to understand whether to do."

"Of Pious accord, today we will see Sam Fox, we feel what it has to tell us and then tonight we will decide whether to do" Sergio said, that had not opened mouth anymore getting further himself/herself/itself to make a phone call from 10 minutes.

Pious and Ariannas passed the rest of the forenoon with Franco to study the papers of the zones of Befaronama and Ranomanano, that were the second purpose of the trip and also, probably, the matters of the theses of Silvia and Ludovico.

The two students introduced that midday had already passed full of packages and packets: to the Digue you/they had not succeeded in stopping. Franco returned home for lunch assuring Sergio that would be done alive in the afternoon to organize the meeting with Sam Fox and the others five they had lunch from Marcello.

In the Pious afternoon and Arianna the eighty steps that separated them from the Plaza of the Colbert went up again again. They were direct to the bookstore, that opened on the principal road of the tall city: here they bought the best road papers in Madagascar that succeeded in finding. Pious you/he/she was impressed by the level of habit already reached in this second trip. They passed once more in front of the mail, climbing over the lean bodies of the lepers and the mendicant. They seemed to belong to the urban landscape of the Malagasy capital, they didn't do us more case. Pious it was aghast, was it aghast from his/her lack of horror, possible that the human being is able, so easily and quickly, to get used to everything?

They continued the turn for the center passing in front of the French embassy, a sumptuous and elegant building, deprived of all the safety systems of which the American embassy was gifted and, going down along a clattered stradina, they reached a little pond, or better, a malodorous pond, on which it towered - on a long penisoletta - a monument with a base surmounted by a kind of obelisk. On the left the hill of the tall city rose, on which detached the building of the queen that Pious it was intended once more to visit. On the steep slope of the hill there was a novelty in comparison to the preceding year: in cubitali characters white holliwoodiani was read the name of the capital, every letter had to be tall at least four meters.

Pious and Ariannas seated on the edge of the pond to meditate on the situation.

"That we do with the students?it " said Pious after, absorbed for ten minutes, you/he/she had thrown pebbles in water.

"You won't want to bring them to Brieville, I hope. This whole history could be very dangerous. It concerns million of however European of thefts, there is who kills for very less, and not to forget you that we are in Africa, where life is worth two money."

"And that we do, do we leave them here?"

"We send them to make a beautiful bibliographical search to the library. To the Chalet des Roseses are very well, the place is calm, the Italian restaurant is nearby there, nothing of which to worry."

"You are perhaps right, we also allow him the papers and the photocopies of the books that last year has taken, with the news of Beforonama and Ranomanano, so they will be busy. I don't believe then that we will be to Brieville a lot of time."

Pious resumptions to throw pebbles in water, where these disappeared, lifting from the fund a cloudlet of mud.

"Pious, do we go?"

"We go? Where?" Pious resurfaced to work by his/her thoughts.

"We go away, don't you feel that foul smell? The air is unbreathable."

In effects the exhalations of the swamp, where they ended who knows what refusals of the city, united him to the issues of the gases of unloading of the traffic of the road retrostante, all autos how much less from European less four down.

The two geologists left the little pond and they returned in the hotel, going up again on a path, partly excavated and partly to disconnected steps, the slope of the hill.

In the hotel they waited for them both Franco and Sergio. Sergio smoked spaparanzato on the couch and Franco you/he/she was giving instructions to Silvia on as to stir in the city.

"You always take a taxi, wherever you want to go, above all the evening."

Franco had evidently reached already the same conclusion of Pious and Arianna: it was not the case to bring the boys to Brieville, at least for now.

"We have appointment with Sam Fox to the center of Morarano at five o'clock" Sergio said, turning to both, "if we go out now we succeed in passing from the Unique."

"From the Unique? What is the Unique?he/she " asked amazed Arianna.

"A hypermarket, must buy some things for my mother and my friends. If I succeed in taking then today her we bring her to Tamatave and we send her with the containers of the cromite."

Was there a hypermarket to Antananarivo? This city is really unpredictable, a continuous contradiction, thought Pious. He/she believed, to the second trip, to already have meeting place Tanà to the cliche of the African capital, made of bidonville, degraded districts, pollution and dirt, where you purchase him they happened in lower case letters and dirty shops or, more often, to the market, if not, at least for the vasàs, in the street directly from the auto, and now here that it sprouted a hypermarket straight.

"We go, we go, I am really curious to see a Malagasy hypermarket" it said Pious to Sergio.

All and six went using the auto of Franco and a taxi, that you/he/she would have accompanied again then in the hotel the students.

It was indeed a hypermarket, entirely analogous to a home Carrefour, and of analogous dimensions, with so much of shops and zone restaurants and fast food, extremely European. Pious, Arianna, Ludovico and Silvia wandered amazed among the shelves, full also them of European products. You succeeded in hardly understanding to be in Africa, and only thanks to some Malagasy products typically, as an endless cinnamons variety, vanillas, tea, coffee and local cocoa, besides an unbelievable quantity of brands of rhum. Clientele was scarce and, primarily, white, even if they didn't miss some Malagasy ones, evidently very rich for the local standards. Pious he/she bought some vanilla, of the tea, of the cocoa and different bottles of rhum, besides a paté of peperoncino, preserved in old boxes of homogenized, of the dehydrated bananas and a bread of sugar of reed, spending around 70.000 aryaries, the one month-old salary for a Malagasy miner. Decidedly the Unique belonged to that category of places reserved to the vasàs and to the local elite as the Colbert and some restaurants of the center. At times they don't serve racial laws to maintain the segregation, enough the discrepancy in the salaries.

At five o'clock they were to the center of the Morarano, in front of the monolite of cromite that it represented the symbol of it. You/they were made to arrange from a secretary in a small study. Pious you/he/she was looked around looking for Emile, but he/she didn't see trace. Sam Fox almost immediately reached them, it was kind and polite as always, he/she spoke English and it made to bring some cups of tea. After all were arranged Sergio it gave a brief speech. The AM was happy to be able to collaborate with the Morarano to the purpose to optimize the output of the mines of Andriamena. The cromite reached with regularity Italy and Sergio it was extremely satisfied of the situation. It hoped only that the small problem of the decrease of quality of the stock of May was temporary and that you/he/she could quickly be resolved, also with the experts' help furnished by the AM.

Here that university was reduced to a branch of the AM, but it was the usual history. After all Sergio was a seller and Pious, although he/she didn't succeed in accepting him/it yet, you/he/she had started to understand him/it and to conform.

Sam Fox warmingly thanked and it said that the Morarano was fully satisfied some collaboration with AM. You excused for the problem risen with the ways of the assembled one, but it underlined that the thing had already been settled, from the commercial point of view, with a strong discount on the lower part stock way. It finally wished that, with the help of the illustrious teacher, this problem would quickly be resolved also.

Anything else other than illustrious teacher, you would want us a beautiful detective rather, he/she thought Pious, always that the thief is not you.

Suddenly Pious he allowed to take from a philosophical problem that had caught him/it by surprise to the moment: but how much time of his/her own life did every individual spend in state of dissociation? Thinking a thing and saying entirely one of them different? He is be liked to tell Sam Fox that it bewared him of the thieves, if he/she wanted to resolve the problem, or that it stopped her/it making the hypocrite, in the case the thief pits him.

Arianna was throwing him some kicks under the chair, to which answered with a kick, that however it struck the leg of the chair clearly making a perceivable noise from everybody. Sam had asked him something. The priority of Pious you/he/she would have been the pain to the alluce and you/he/she would have wanted to simply say "Ahia" but he held back and it prepared him to say some lie. On the other hand him it didn't have the will power of Theodore Nasica sofo, which, wakened up him a morning, you/he/she had decided to live according to veritas and you/he/she had stopped saying lies. Had you/he/she withstood a day at the end of which, after innumerable quarrels, insults and borsettate in head, returning home, had you/he/she started over saying lies, answering to the neighbor that asked him "As is Signor Teodoro? I see you dejected."

"I am very well, thanks."

Pious Theodore set aside, his/her model of life, and you/he/she tried to return to the present, who knows thing had asked him Sam, to go for its road "Dear Signor Fox, as you/he/she will have seen from our relationship, the surrender of the laveria is certainly migliorabile: the tall tables those that enrich the coarse material, work particularly, very bad. Our sampling however you/he/she has been done on the material of Ankazomotala, for which the results cannot explain the decrease of quality followed to the passage by Ankazomotala to Bemankevina and Telomatina."

"In effects I don't even explain me him I, have added a 20% of Telomatina to the material of proper Bemankevina to maintain constant the quality. Telomatina is a small body from 70.000 tons around, of really excellent quality, the data are here" and Sam passed to Pious a relationship bound to rings. Pious it skimmed through her/it detaining himself/herself/itself on the charts with the analytical data and then started over speaking.

"These data are entirely similar to the results that we have gotten in Milan on the material sent us by Franco when you/he/she has been ago to Brieville a few weeks. I don't succeed in seeing an explanation for the decrease of quality, also the different mineralogy slightly among the mines you/he/she cannot explain him/it."

"I beg her then, teacher, to go us together with Brieville to study the situation."

The proposal surprised some all, Franco you/he/she had always said that Sam Fox, in how much commercial manager, didn't interest him any technical problems always saying that the company had the maximum trust in the managers of the mine and the fittings. Perhaps that this trust had come less? Or did Sam Fox perhaps want to hold under control of person the vasàs?

It was Sergio to intervene.

"You will come with us to the mine? We thought about departing morning tomorrow."

"I will come with an auto of Morarano, I hope to reach you evening tomorrow, I will be the day after tomorrow at the most to Brieville."

Pious you/he/she would have wanted somehow to still ask something on the carrots, but Sam Fox dismissed them with his/her usual polite, but definite ways.

19

They departed soon, in five: Sergio, Franco, Pious, Arianna and the driver, that this time was Michel, the personal driver of Franco, with a pulmino from nine places, rented for the occasion but without driver.

"Anything happens better to Brieville not to have witnesses" you/he/she had tenebrously specified some Franco.

Ludovico and Silvia had left des to the Chalet Roses to make a culture on the geology of Madagascar and to study the papers of the areas where then you/they would have had to work.

"We will be back within three days, four at the most" you/he/she had told them Franco handing him a bunch of Malagasy banknotes for the small expenses.

Michel was an experienced driver and succeeded in also holding some notable hourly averages on excavates him/it between Moramanga and Morarano, besides the standstill for the lunch had been reduced to the least one, no more than mezz'ora, to the Coq of Or of Moramanga. They were so reached the lake Alaotra, where the connection lost him with the jail cell, that were not the fifteen yet. After the customary standstill for the phone calls, they divided and in around mezz'ora Moraranos reached, directing himself/herself/itself toward the railway station, hindered, and not few, from a market that it encumbered the whole and only principal road.

The station of Morarano had not been built for the traffic momentary, and he/she was seen. For an incomprehensible motive the only platform of the railroad to Morarano folded up toward west forming a great curve to horseshoe, and it reached therefore the north station, instead that from south. The same station, deprived of box-office and room of attended, you/he/she was constituted by a small building that acted from office for the officials of the Morarano, with an adjoining saletta for the railroaders and the unloaders. For the rest the area was busy from a great spiazzo, on the side north there were enormous heaps of cromite in lumpy, while the south side was busy from the assembled in sand.

To Sergio, as always they shone the eyes:

"They will be at least 15.000 tons, well: the next loads are insured."

"No, badly" Franco replied "this means that, if we also resolved instantly the problem of the quality, they would still give us for a piece this cromite, that is that ugly."

"Already it is true," Sergio still said, to which the smile was extinguished on the lips.

At that time it went out from I build him some station an elderly Malagasy limping. It seemed hesitant whether to approach or I lead that group of vasà, but they were too much certainly neighbors to his/her cromite, for which to the end to slow footstep and dragged, it reached them.

"The gentlemen desire?it " told a best French than its aspect would have made to imagine.

"We are here on behalf of Doctor Fox, an inspection to the load of cromite" he/she answered with air bored Franco "when the next load departs?"

Franco evidently knew whether to exploit the being vasà: some arrogance, a pinch of supponenza and, above all, an air of command they were generally the key to make to be said or to make to do to the Malagasy that that was wanted, more or less. In the specific case, Franco, for sovrappiù, you/he/she had put us middle the name of one of the highest executives of the company.

The Malagasy one made a half bow and he/she answered "Mr., the train should arrive tonight and he/she will divide morning tomorrow."

"Then you will load him/it tonight?"

"Yes, gentleman, loads at night always, the train arrives every evening, we load him/it and he/she leaves again later the morning."

"They load at night" it said Pious "because?"

"I don't believe there is void strange" Franco answered "to Tamatave manpower costs more, for which prefer to unload to the I bring in the daytime and to make to work here at night, instead."

"But do they have a train only? And how much does it bring?"

"The wagons bring up to 40 tons every" Franco said, then, turning to the custodian "of how many wagons you/he/she is made the train?"

"Oh it depends, gentleman, we perform what is ordered us to do: when the train arrives we break him/it in two stumps, the first one we put him/it on that dead platform" and it pointed out a parallel platform to that, what was born from an exchange, around 150 north meters "instead the second goes on this platform and you/he/she is loaded. When all the wagons are full we move there this trunk of and we bring here other wagons from the first trunk for the load, it is the capocantiere that says how much wagons to fill."

"I have asked you a precise question" Franco insisted, making show to bother him "not to wander, how many wagons are you/they usually loaded?"

"You excuse, gentleman, but it depends, as I have told her."

"But does this do us or there is?Sergio " asked to low voice turning to Franco.

"Not to worry you, is alone terrorized by the possession before four vasàs, you/he/she has not seen together probably never so many everybody of it, for more inspectors come for a control or something of the kind. It allows to do to me."

"How many wagons you have loaded last night?"

"I don't know, gentleman, but in the office there is the register, if he/she wants to come to see."

"Hands him/it here that I give him a glance."

The oldie got further the more in possible hurry, for how much they allowed you him his/her battered legs, in direction of the office.

"Better that we don't enter the office to snoop, nobody has authorized us" Franco said.

"Now you worry yourself about the authorizations?Sergio " replied, evidently had a good time.

The Malagasy one returned with in hand a register compiled to pen, open on a page with a chart, of which you/he/she was pointing out a column. It brought the number of wagons of which the train was constituted in departure by Morarano.

Pious quickly it said to Arianna to take note and Arianna it extracted from the backpack paper and pen, trying not to let from the custodian to be noticed.

"Then" Franco said "yesterday the convoy was constituted by 22 wagons; in the preceding days, to bashful, the wagons have been 20, 23, 15, 20, 21 and ago a week. Why only 15 here?" churches, again turning to the custodian and pointing out the figure on the register.

"But, gentleman, was the load of Friday evening, you/he/she reaches Tamatave on Saturdays morning and the Saturday the I unload you/he/she must end within midday, you/he/she is always so."

"And how many wagons were you/they of sand and how much of rock?Franco still " asked.

"Also that is in the register, gentleman, here" and it turned page "to the left the rock and to the right the sand."

"Well, then" Franco taken back to tall voice and articulating well the words, to allow to Arianna to take note "in the same days, to bashful, the wagons of sand have been 8, 7, 9, 5, 7 and 6."

"It is all right, it seems me that is everything in order, you have worked well, this is a bonus prize for you" Franco still told the Malagasy one, putting him in hand a banknote from 5.000 aryaries "we will often return to make controls, but you/they must be surprising, for which not to tell anything anybody, if you will keep on working so you will receive every time a bonus."

The four got further and they reached the fuoristrada, where the driver attended them. They climbed and they divided.

"You have taken note?Sergio immediately " asked to Arianna.

"Certain, they make 42 wagons of sand in a week."

"Test to calculate how much cromite ago, to 40 tons for wagon."

"Ago 1680 tons" it anticipated once more Pious "it seems me that I/you/he/she count them returns" and it appeared him once more the image that had obsessed him/it from child, the death in black mantle, skull and crossbones face and scythe, that Brancaleone threatened, for then, when Lucilla, Spiritilla or as devil called the in love girl of Brancaleone, its place was sacrificed to, to get further pronouncing the prophetic sentence: 'you count them they return.'

Sergio was doubtful.

"How much it does a month?"

"If we consider four weeks a month" it still said Pious "they make 6720 tons, something in more than the average of the first months of this year. Jaw Jaw Jaw Leon Leon Leon tatatatataratatatata" oddio, didn't succeed in holding for itself its obsessions anymore, now the little song of Brancaleone would have obsessed him/it for a piece, but the serious thing was that you/he/she had started singing her/it to tall voice, in the pullmino, in presence of everybody.

"That Brancaleone enters it now?it " said Franco smiling. They were after all fortunately almost contemporary 5 or 6 years of difference, for which Franco knew the films of Brancaleone.

"Beh, counts them they return" it repeated Pious.

"Already Pious, a big beautiful film that."

The two remaining hours of the trip, up to Brieville, they passed with Pious, Franco and Sergio that recalled film, programs and music of the years '70, singing her in choir, for the desperation of Arianna that felt him cut out, and the perplexity of the driver, that certain it confirmed the Malagasy idea that the vasàs are all crazy ones.

To the guesthouse of Brieville, that you/they reached while it was doing dark, Sam Fox already found to attend them, but the surprise was that you/he/she was accompanied by Emile.

"Welcome, have you taken good trip? We have arrived two hours ago, we have decided to depart this morning soon."

"Excellent trip, thanks" he/she answered for all Sergio without mentioning to the deviation toward the station of Morarano.

"Your rooms are ready, do we wait you to supper among a hour, is it all right?"

"It is all right, thanks" Sergio still responded.

Pious it directed him in room with his/her light baggage. Opening him/it, it discovered to have forgotten the slippers, besides it had an alone shirt of exchange. You intended to shop in the bazaar of Brieville the next day.

It took a shower, necessarily strengthening in how much cold: it was already naked, in fact, when you/he/she had come him to mind that you/he/she would have had to fill the bucket of warm water in kitchen, for which it abdicated us. To withstand the frozen throw sang Jaw to squarciagola Jaw Jaw Leon Leon Leon until it didn't feel to bossily knock to the wall. You azzittì of hit, went out of the shower, it was dressed again and it reached the room from lunch. Here it found a big number of Malagasy table companion that, waiting for the supper, they took a base appetizer of cashews and beer Three Horses.

Pious at he looked around, had you/they surely felt it shouts her madwomen from the shower, did it feel him catch fire from the shame, the only one it was to pretend of nothing, after all who could say that you/he/she had been him? You looked around, Sergio and Franco there were not yet.

Again Sam greeted and then the other agreements, among which the only ones of which he/she remembered the name were Josephine, Emile and Romeo. There were then the engineer manager of the mine and the general manager of Brieville. In short the arrival of Sam Fox had mobilized the whole managing staff of the Morarano to Brieville.

Sergio, Franco and Arianna had just come also, they put on to table where you/he/she was served an excellent and abundant meal, whose principal dish was constituted by rice with meat of zebu.

At the end of the supper Sam gave a brief speech of welcome addressed to the guests, during which it made to observe that the collaboration with AM and the university in Milan was initiated under the best auspices.

After supper Pious you/he/she had approached from Josephine, the only other person, besides Sam, that spoke English. You/they could easily talk this way.

Josephine thanked Pious for the relationship on the laveria, that had received in March. It said to agree with Pious and to have prepared a technical relationship, supporting himself/herself/itself to that of the university, to propose the substitution of the idroclassificatoris with sieves. Fox had approved the relationship and you/he/she had added then a financial enclosure with the anticipated costs and the formalities of amortization of the expense. To this point for the signature of Mozamoranado was waited only, the sumptuous man of the president that you/they had met the preceding year to the supper of the last evening to Tanà. Pious it gave his/her own availability to follow the operation assuring that, for how much in his/her power - always better protecting the hands - you/he/she would have performed a new sampling of verification after the substitution.

To that point however Josephine, that in the meantime, slowly walking, had you/he/she brought Pious in an angle set apart of the room, did he/she ask him "Thing thinks of it of the decrease of quality of the cromite? The manager Malavanoitra is very angry, you/he/she says that I have not known how to adjust the plant to the new mines, but in February, with the closed mines, I have made to make different tests with the material of Bemankevina and Telomatina and I assure her that the results were good. I wanted to send some champions of the tests for the analyses, but you/he/she has not been allowed me, even them I can give to her."

"Also I don't succeed in understanding the cause of the decrease of quality, the incoming sand, with it mixes her/it that you have done between Bemankevina and Telomatina, it meaningfully is not different from that of Ankazo."

"Note, has tried to explain him/it, but there has been no anything to do."

"And the surrender?" churches Pious "you/he/she has been unchanged?"

"Here is the surrender. Josephine seemed embarrassed and doubtful whether to continue or less to speak.

"I know that the surrender is the principal priority of the Morarano, because the contracts are based, everything, on the quantities that must be respected, and only secondarily on the quality" it said Pious, hoping to induce Josephine to keep on speaking.

"It is true" Josephine confirmed "and here the biggest problem is" an instant looked around him with its quivering eyes and then it continued, slightly lowering the tone of the voice "Also this year, as always, to the closing of the mine you/he/she is emptied completely the stock of Brieville. Also to Morarano nothing has not almost remained, so you/he/she has been done the accounting of the produced cromite last year. This year has come Sam in person to make the accounts and the accounts they don't return."

Count them they don't return, he/she thought Pious, Jaw Jaw Jaw, started to move the lips, but he/she succeeded in staying an instant before a sound went out from there.

"They don't return? In that sense they don't return?"

"According to my calculations, kept account of the feed that we measure in the storage bin of accumulation of the sand and the surrender of the plant, had appraised the production of assembled to 68.000 tons and instead the accounts of March say that the production has been of sun 56.400 tons. I had never been wrong of so much. Anymore of 1500 tons and always for defect, never for excess"

Josephine was evidently mortified for how much it had happened and the mortification to have done badly its job also prevailed on the fear to be dismissed or, straight, to be accused some shortages.

Pious, in an instant, it calculated to mind that the shortage corresponded to around the 15% of stolen cromite, from him esteemed. You/he/she was strongly tried to tell everything to Josephine but it feared so to make to burst the scandal and to give the possibility to make to disappear the traces to the thief. And then Josephine could always lie, had to not you/he/she forget that everything confirmed the hypothesis that the cromite was stolen in the laveria and her it was the manager of the laveria, as it was able not to know anything of it? Pious it looked at sottecchi Josephine, to try to understand if it were sincere. Difficulty to say him/it, Pious it was not very good not to even appraise his/her fellow citizens, let's show up us people of such a distant culture from his.

"But the strangest thing is another" Josephine taken back.

"Thing?it " did Pious, slightly approaching himself/herself/itself.

"It seems that this year the shortage has disappeared. You/he/she can be known only obviously with certainty next year, when all the stocks will be exhausted, in the period of closing of the mine. Me however I have attentively appraised the production after what has happened to March. I have held the account of the wagons of sand envoys to Tamatave, of the product in stock to Morarano and of that in stock here. It results me that the production of April, May and June has been of 22.500 tons that, to constant rhythm, in the nine months of opening ago 67.500 tons, the same one that I had esteemed for last year."

"Really strange" it joined in conversation Pious, but Josephine by now you/he/she had started to speak and you/he/she had to arrive until after all.

"And I have also held the account of the feed introduced to the laveria: the surrender, that last year had been low, that usual has returned"

"The problem has perhaps been resolved" it risked Pious.

"But as it is possible? The surrender is the same one of the tests of March but the very worse quality."

"I don't know" it told this Pious point "we can see the laveria tomorrow?"

"Certain, I have also talked already to Sam of it, I wait you for morning tomorrow."

Josephine got further and Pious it went to spill some tea. You/he/she would have appreciated some coffee but, inexplicably, while the tea, the chocolate, the rhum and the vanilla, all local products, in Madagascar they are exceptional, coffee is very bad. The preparation evidently counts before more than the quality of the subject.

The Malagasy ones left the guesthouse to the spicciolata. The first one was Sam Fox, while the last one was Josephine, that seemed to delay. Pious he/she thought he/she wanted to still tell him something, but she finally greeted him/it with a simple invitation to see the next day again.

The four vasàs were finally alone, or better, together with the inevitable custodian and of its skullcap of yellow wool. You/he/she had passed the whole evening behind the counter to observe the two gentleman that you/they were troubled to serve in table and then to clear before.

The four seated in the angle with the divanettis and the television, it was Arianna to break the silence.

"Pious, did all look you, trying not to make to be noticed, but has thing told you Josephine?"

"It says that the last year to the closing of the accounts results a shortage of cromite of 11.600 tons, that she doesn't explain at all him. It says that the laveria works as always and that in February you/they have made some positive tests with the new cromite of Bemankevina and Telomatina. And then it says that according to her this year the shortage there is not."

"Yes, however there is the quality that is disgusting" Sergio intervened "I don't trust that woman."

"Silvana would want us to brake your misogyny now" you/he/she commented Pious."

"The problem is another" Franco said "all know, at least from tonight, that are here for resolving the problem of the quality of the cromite. Who steals, therefore, he/she will take all the provisions to make to disappear the traces of the theft."

"We immediately must move us, then: tomorrow morning, in four, we will look in every angle of the laveria."

"You/he/she could be too late tomorrow" Franco still said, almost lowering the tone of the voice to a whisper.

"Thing you have in mind?he/she asked " him Pious.

"That we must act before someone makes to disappear the traces, hoping that has not known in advance of our arrival and has already made her disappear."

"Tonight?he/she " asked this time Arianna.

"It doesn't seem you to exaggerate with your behaviors to the limit of the legality?Sergio " asked.

"One question at a time, thanks" Franco taken back "thing there is of illegal in to take a nighttime walk?"

"You always find an excuse, you" Sergio still said.

"Sergio, by now we are in dance. We are here for helping Morarano to resolve the problems with the cromite, by now they know him/it everybody. If we don't resolve the matter of the thefts, those that have involved, will do later in way to cut out us. We will lose the contracts and all the earningses."

Franco knew whether to sting on the alive Sergio, which immediately reacted.

"We go, we are aware, and if he/she sees us someone we say that didn't succeed to sleep."

"Yes, four sleepless vasàs that turn for the laveria, would you believe it?Arianna " said.

"We will go only in two" Franco added "me and Pious"

"Ah" it did Pious, that had kept silent till now "thanks, Franco."

"Pious, we must go us two, in four it will be easier to be seen and we would not succeed in coordinating us in the movements and, if they see us, it would be difficult to explain even more what we were doing, in two insomnia can be more reasonable."

Sergio found the most reasonable proposal and guaranteed her/it in full, while Arianna tried to protest, but at the end he also surrendered her to the proposal of Franco.

"Is careful however and don't do madness, we don't know with whom have to whether to do and how much dangerous can be."

"We will bring with us Michel" Franco said "besides being my driver you/he/she is also an ex jailbird, and you/he/she would make him cut the veins for me, we have been working together for the times of the mine of tormalina to the north."

"Six a Malagasy truth" concluded Sergio shaking the head.

"Well we agree all, now they are the ten and we go all how much in room. Pious, we see us next to the old swimming pool at eleven o'clock. Useless to go late at night: before it is, it is better."

"It is all right, if you tell him/it that it is the best thing, we go" it not said Pious entirely convinced "I hope only that your man is not armed."

"No, Pious, it is not him/it. Rather, when you go out of the room not to turn on lights and it tries not to make you see from the custodian, it will also have an imbambolato air but I don't trust me."

"Of accord" it still did Pious and it got up showily yawning "then good night."

20

In the following mezz'ora Pious it made the spool among the bed, where he/she sat thoughtful, and the door of his/her room, always in procinto to go out for going from Franco to tell him that it didn't do anything. Was it a madness, and, was it dangerous above all, but that the next day to do if every trace had been made to disappear? It was him that you/he/she had put in mean the whole matter, him that, from months, you/he/she was convinced that someone stole the cromite to the laveria and you/he/she had convinced first Arianna, then Sergio and finally also Franco. You/he/she would be had to withdraw in good shameless order, the AM would have lost the contracts, the theses would be jumped, as the whole collaboration with AM. It needed to gamble away all in a night, to the fortune, Jaw Jaw Jaw Leon Leon Leon and Pious it got up, ploughing to long footsteps in the dark the space between the bed and the wall of forehead. No, no, no, no, this is not a game, it deals with money, of so many money and me I come here to play to the detective in the den of the wolf, he/she doesn't even speak, it is all right to put on in the troubles, but here it is exaggerated. It is Pious it drew near to the door, but as soon as it appropriated the handle a mixture of shame and curiosity it stopped him/it, it calmed down and it went to sit on the bed. The cycle restarted.

A quarter of now before the eleven Pious it started to get ready, it also helped him/it to become distracted. The night was rather cold on the ten or twelve degrees, for which he/she wore a plush and it leaned on the bed the red jacket. Immediately after having leaned him/it on the bed it turned him to look him/it aghast: a red jacket! Just the ideal to make to be seen late at night. At least I won't see the blood when they will shoot on me, he/she thought, taken by a raptus of tragicità. No, no, he/she doesn't speak, Pious it put back the jacket on the chair and takings from the suitcase the batteries, that he/she wore above to the sweater. The batteries however it didn't have pockets, Pious then it changed him the pants, wearing those from job full of pockets. In a pocket it put the torch, together with two batteries of exchange, in a second pocket put back the flexible coltellino, certain not for defense, but there would have been even to cut something, who knows. In another pocket it put the binoculars and the small stellar atlas. You/he/she would not perhaps have served, but the excuse that you/they had gone out for seeing the stars seemed him more reasonable than the insomnia. Did it finally weigh more times the geologist hammer, to bring him/it or not to bring him/it? To the end it decided to leave him/it in the room, to thing you/he/she would have served a hammer to look at the stars?

Just before the eleven, Pious it drew near to the door approaching the ear, some noise he/she was not heard, it slowly opened her/it and it looked out, anybody in sight, any movement. Closed again the door and it went for a stroll back, still taking in hand the hammer, it gave him safety. Then he/she was seen in the action to take someone to hammered. The image was so improbable that, again on the threshold, it slowly leaned the hammer inside the room and dams. It started us one minute locking, it seemed that this, turning in the patch, you/he/she could do an infernal noise. Everything went smooth and Pious it reached the swimming pool. Here it frightened him to death perceiving an it shades, but it was Franco: obvious that was there, you/he/she had given him appointment. Pious it put on the hand on the breast to listen to the heart, it beat too strongly decidedly.

"Eccoti finally" Franco whispered taking Pious for the arm "soon we go, Michel waits us more before."

"As, finally? they are not the eleven yet" it did then Pious wriggling himself/herself/itself, it was really nervous.

"From the, we go" it still made Franco, starting himself/herself/itself to quick footsteps along the road, in the most absolute dark, entirely illuminated by a thin scythe of moon, that a trembling silvery light infused to the landscape.

They reached shortly time the pullmino, where Michel waited for them, already sat to the steering wheel. The laveria distava around 3 kilometers, that crossed to out lighthouses risking more than once to end out road. Franco made to stop Michel near the square of accumulation of the tout venant coming from the mine, less than one hundred meters away from the plant of enrichment, that however was hidden from the heaps of rock. The choice had decidedly been prudent, to about ten meters from them a big generator produced a deaf and continuous noise, that surely had covered that with the motor of the pullmino.

"Compliments" it said Pious to Franco, while Michel extinguished the motor "six better of a mercenary in secret mission, but where have you learned?"

"From any part, I am improvising everything" it was the answer of Franco, that didn't not at all reassure Pious.

The light of the moon came once more in them help, was enough to succeed in seeing where they put on the feet, but all it took is far for easily making them individuabili from, or at least so it hoped Pious.

They made a breadth turn to the left of the first and bigger crusher, reaching the area of accumulation of the lumpy. From there you/they could continue following to bashful the ribbon that transported the lumpy and then what transported the feed of the sand up to reach the silos of accumulation of the sand. From there you/they would be been able to enter the laveria from the tall part passing next to the office of Josephine. In alternative you/they could continue in the area of stoccaggio of the lumpy, to make a breadth turn and to reach the area of stoccaggio of the assembled in sand. There was here a scaletta from which you/they could climb to the laveria and to reach the inferior border, from which the ribbon of the assembled one stretched out him of it. Franco churches to Pious what street thought pits the best.

"You think that there am a nighttime keeper?" churches of rhyming Pious to Franco.

"I don't have the least idea of it, but I don't believe and, however it doesn't worry me: always that is awake, we are able, from good vasà, to arouse him fear, to say that it is a nighttime sopralluogo, in short something I can invent me. What worries me, would be instead to find me confrontation, with whom wants to make to disappear the traces of the thefts."

"Then we pass from the lower part" it said of Pious impetus "if there is someone who wants to make to disappear the traces it is someone that, you/he/she can officially have however access to the laveria, for which he won't make problems to arrive from the most comfortable part, or from the tall one."

"It is all right, does go for the lower part, but. thing we are looking for?

"This is a beautiful question, and they is months that I set her/it to me. How do you/they steal her/it the cromite? Does the theft happen between the last mill and the ribbon of the assembled one, but where?"

"Certain not before the tables, as do they do to steal the assembled one before this is produced?"

"Correct. The assembled that it goes out of the tables you/he/she is carried with some pipings that pass under the laveria to the tub of decantazione and, from here sent to the ribbon, that makes him/it fall in the underlying square. They are not able that to divert someone of the pipings, is 24 of them, one for every table."

"Then we must not go in the laveria but under the laveria" concluded Franco.

"Yes and you/he/she can be entered by the low part, where the pomps that make to circulate the water are, I was penetrating there last year when I/you/they have been jammed" Pious to that point it jammed really and it made an aghast look.

"Thing there is?did it " tell a whisper Franco looking around himself/herself/itself worried "you have seen something?"

"No, I have remembered what you/he/she had stopped me last year, a constellation of cobwebs with enormous black spiders that occupy the whole space under the laveria, there was only a kind of gallery among the cobwebs from where, presumably, the workers passed."

"And the thieves" concluded still Franco "if they pass them we can also pass us."

"To you the precedence" it did Pious to which the idea to cross that net of repugnant spiders and, even, also poisonous, in the most absolute dark, only with the help of his/her small torch, it hurt him/it star. At least you/he/she had had some glasses to rays infraragni, that allowed him to individualize the dear bestioles as red dots, some as in the films on the famous thefts, to the Louvre or to the Topkapi.

Franco decided that needed to break the delays and you/he/she made sign to Michel to precede them. The three set out, walking furtive behind the heaps of stones. They had then to cross an ample open space where, however, they were glimpse some dark outlines, which revealed him to be parts of ribbons, mills and other abandoned equipments and you allow to rust.

The gruppetto of two vasàs and a Malagasy it employed few less than five minutes to cross that space with caution, trying to hide behind the rusted equipments. They finally reached the two containers that were found to the limit of the zone of unloading of I discard him/it mixed to water. There Pious he/she remembered that it began a real swamp, but he/she also remembered that some heaps of material of dry discard were out of the swampy zone and next to the containers, behind which were found now. Pious it made sign to Franco to continue in that direction. The three abandoned the containers and, quickly crossing a space open of around about ten meters, they reached the first heap and they hid behind you. There dark was absolute, since the heaps of sand covered the moon. Did Franco extract from the pocket a lower case letter torch and was about to turn on her/it, but Pious you/he/she stopped his hand whispering him "Fermo, thing you do?"

"I make some light, it is too much here dark, if we stumble in some piece of metal we make too much noise. Easier than feels the noise rather than sees the light of this torch, that is to led and it has a course of ten meters maximum."

"Bushels calm, memory very well this place and there are no metallic wrecks, on I go."

Pious it was started in the dark I crush, the outline of the heap of sand was seen only, tall about ten meters, individuabile as a black space, deprived of stars, that it impended on them. It didn't have the time to do more than four or five footsteps that it stumbled in something and it fell in before, making not little noise and, above all, cursing to tall voice.

"Pious, Pious you have hurt?Franco was saying, while you/he/she was frantically looking for and, then you/he/she turned on his/her torch. Michel was helping Pious to rise again.

"Nothing serious, must be does me a cut to the shin bone, I feel the blood strain, and then I am me some stortato the wrist, it hurts me, but as. Do you say that we have wakened up someone?"

"I hope of no" Franco answered.

"Excuse, and would that be the torch that makes little light?it still " said Pious, blinded by a bundle of light.

"You are not you to have turned on the torch?Franco " replied.

It followed an instant of spine-chilling silence. The two turned toward Michel, that was barehanded, the light originated from a torch that it stirred in the saddle among two heaps of sand partly overlapped, you/he/she had to be us someone on the other side of the heaps, which, to the noise, the two or three meters that brought to the saddle and you/he/she were now illuminating them had climbed.

"Pecked at" it said Pious, with an extreme calm, that opposed with the pulsations gone crazy of his/her heart. In the same moment it lowered the eyes, not to have blinded from the bundle of light and he/she saw on thing stumbles: a series of boxes containing carrots of surveys, the mysterious disappeared carrots!

"The carrots, Franco" it did Pious pointing out the boxes "I am here, they have been here always."

"Yes, they are the carrots of the surveys of Ankazomotala" it made a voice in English, to his/her shoulders, while two Malagasy Michel got further speaking to him in their language.

Pious you/he/she had recognized the voice, it was the unmistakable polite and velvety voice of Sam Fox. Who others if not him? For a long time you/he/she had understood him/it, it was him that it threw it spins her of everything. You now felt oddly calm, it looked for confirmation the hand putting himself/herself/itself on the breast, but it immediately got further her/it, the heart didn't not at all confirm, and it kept on beating madly.

"Good evening signor Honeys, good evening signor Geco" Sam continued.

"Good evening signor Fox" Franco answered, with great presence of spirit in comparison to Pious.

Pious he/she remembered the excuses to which you/they had thought of the case you/they had been amazed, a nighttime walk because of the insomnia or a turn to see the stars, and both ridiculous seemed him.

"Good evening, signor Fox" it also said him.

"You have been really good to stumble in the carrots that you were looking for, but I would want to kindly ask you: why do you care so much?"

"Oh, it is only a scientific interest" he/she answered Pious "we would like to have a complete sampling of the layer, or better of what was the layer before it was exhausted."

"I see that you don't want to tell me the truth" frowning Sam Fox taken back, "this is not kind from guests. But it is not the case to speak here, follow me please."

The two vasàs, to which he was assistant again Michel, Sam Fox and his/her men followed - Pious it counted four of them - to a third container, more distant than the others two. Sam made them enter to the dark and followed them with the torch. In the container it turned on only the light after you/he/she had carefully closed the door.

Pious it was stricken from two things: in first place from the presence of Emile, that sat in silence on a chair behind a small table, on which you/they were leaned some papers, then from the fact that the windows of the container were darkened, some light didn't probably slip out to the outside. Bad sign.

Sam made them arrange on other two chairs. Pious it realized at that time that Michel had not entered. Franco had finally extinguished his/her torch and he sat in silence. It was once more Sam to break him/it.

"Dear friends, considering that you don't want to unbalance I will be you me to make the first movement. I don't believe, as Josephine, that cannot be trusted you. And, above all it is a good, that there am not the signor Sirtori. You are scientists and you don't race behind the profit."

Unlike you, thievish, he/she thought Pious, being careful not to make to slip out his/her thoughts.

"The carrots of the surveys I have made her hide me five years ago around" Sam taken back "and I had my good motives."

Let's know him/it very well, he/she still thought Pious.

Sam, that was looking at them with the usual furbino look, seemed to hesitate; then Emile looked, that a sign did with the head. To the end it started over speaking.

"I want to trust you, rather I want to trust Emile, that says that I can trust you. It seems has had a good impression, above all of her teacher, when you/he/she has been at his/her home with his/her assistant."

What does he/she want? did he/she still think Pious, that are his/her accomplices? And it gave a glance of escaped Franco, which seemed petrified.

"You don't perhaps know" it had meanwhile started over saying Sam "that the reopening of the mine there was four, years ago shortly after a landslide to Ankazo. Two miners died. Do you know from thing the landslide you/he/she was caused?"

"I have seen her that landslide, when we have visited the mine last year" it said Pious "and, frankly I think, that has been a folly to make so tall terraces, the mine it is dangerous, the slopes too much in inclination."

"Exact, teacher. And the engineer of the epoch put us his/her part, pretending to follow the lenses of cromite anywhere, without keeping in mind of the safety. I did so that you/he/she was dismissed, of trials obviously he/she didn't even speak. It arrived so the ingegner Ranakotsobo, that is very good, and you/he/she has succeeded in maintaining the mine in production up to last year, without causing other landslides, but the situation was dangerous however. This way we have started to work to Bemankevina and, this year has finally, entered production and so we have been able to close Ankazo."

"But Ankazo is exhausted" Franco intervened, breaking the silence in which was entrenched.

Pious you/he/she had started to understand and the following words of Sam didn't catch him/it by surprise.

"Ankazo is not exhausted, doctor Honeys, are still there around 3 million tons of reserves, but you/he/she have been managed badly since the beginning, and now it is too much dangerous."

"And the carrots, with the stratigraphies, I am the test that I/you/they are still there a lot of reserves to Ankazo" it continued Pious.

"Exact, professor Geco, and it is well that disappears, otherwise you/they would not have allowed me to close the mine. It is for this that I have made her hide under these heaps of sand and I am now making her bring away, in a place that I only know. Now, with the closed mine, that three million of tons will remain as resource for the Malagasy people. One day, when we will have less rapacious executives, you/he/she can still be exploited her/it."

"As, if it is too much dangerous?Franco " asked

"In gallery" Sam immediately responded "the rock is hard, the other three million of tons could be extracted in gallery, with some shrewdness. Only that costs very more and when I have looked out upon the idea, after the landslide, you/he/she has been me said that didn't speak even: too elevated costs, very easier to risk the life of the miners."

Who had spoken so with Sam Fox? Necessarily someone that was him superior, Pious he/she thought about that stiff poppy of Mozamaranado.

"Then it is not true that steal cromite to Ankazo from 1974" it said, to this point, Pious.

"Whoever is that steals cromite?Sam " asked then. Also Emile did him more careful although nothing didn't say.

Pious, to a line, him made account that there was no Sam behind the thefts of cromite, rather Sam was trying only to safeguard the wealths of his/her people and the safety of the mine. You/he/she had to speak and immediately, even really at that time, to few footsteps from them, someone was making to disappear the traces of the thefts.

"Sam" it said, skipping the doctor and professor of his/her interlocutor "someone steals the cromite from the laveria, we have the tests."

Also the reaction of Sam, as you/he/she had been that of Franco to Tanà, surprises Pious. Sam Fox didn't decompose him and said calm.

"The I already suspect from a piece but I don't have the tests and, above all I have always thought, that the cromite was stolen to Morarano or, straight, to Tamatave. For this Emile it is with us, with the excuse of the gold layers you/he/she is investigating on the disappearance of the cromite. But, later more than one year of controls and investigations, it says to be sure that neither to Morarano neither to Tamatave nothing is stolen."

"For strength, the thefts happen in the laveria, the incoming feed doesn't return with the sum of assembled and discard, the accounts return only if it is considered that a 15% at least of the assembled one disappears between the idroclassificatoris and the tub of decantazione. We are only aware of it because besides making the sampling last year we have also measured the courses."

To this point Emile intervened.

"But Josephine is not able not to be to the current one of it"

"It is true" Sam pursued "and on Josephine I can appropriate the fire that would not steal an alone grain of cromite."

"Perhaps Josephine doesn't know him/it and the thing is organized from the capotecnico or from somebody else that has free access to the laveria. Last year, when we wanted to sample the laveria, there were a lot of inexplicable incidents and on the most beautiful the plant was stopped."

"Then it is it Wins" Sam almost shouted beating the fist on the table, it was the first time how Pious he/she saw him/it altered.

"And us" Franco intervened "tonight we have come for looking for the tests of the thefts to the laveria. We fear that is made to disappear, because who has hindered us last year you/he/she could suspect that we know something."

"We immediately must intervene" it added Pious.

Sam went off standing, immediately followed by Emile, then he stopped.

"We don't lose the calm, if what you say them is true we can gather on the fact. We must quickly move us, but with prudence."

After these words Sam extinguished all the lights and opened the door of the container. He/she spoke in Malagasy with the four men that waited out. Franco, from his/her song, he/she quickly explained the situation to Michel.

"We wait here, soon we will be ready" Sam finally said.

"Thing intends to do?he/she " asked then Pious.

"My men have gone to take the weapons, it is better to be prudent, it deals with million of dollars, and our executives are too much avid."

"Not only yours" then Franco said.

"Two of my men will hide him next to the entrance of the laveria, where the silos there is, the other ones will come here. Pious, where does he/she think that the theft happens?"

"I believe that devino some of the pipings that bring the assembled by the tables to the tub of decantazione, under the plan of the laveria."

"Then we will intervene from the lower part, we will enter from where the pomps are situated, if there is someone we will catch him/it."

In the ten minutes that attended the return of the armed watches, Pious he/she thought more times than to give her/it for him to legs, and quickly also. You/he/she had always hated the films of the horror, in which it seemed that the protagonists did to competition in to chase him in the troubles, following assassins and maniacs in the darkest and isolated places.

When the watches arrived however, some for the curiosity, some for the shame and very because the thefts you/he/she had discovered them him and he/she didn't want to have put aside really in the moment clou, Pious it followed, together with Franco, the gruppetto of Malagasy that, revolving the marshy area, it directed him toward the laveria, to the dark and in the most absolute silence.

They were in seven: the two armed watches, Sam, Emile, Michel, Pious and Franco. They reached the area of the pomps and they hid behind you, trying to sharpen the sight and listening in absolute silence. Pious it tried to individualize the spiders and the cobwebs, not so much for the terror of the spiders, was not aracnofobico, even if certain it didn't appreciate them, rather because it feared not to succeed in holding back a cry if, to the dark I crush, you/he/she was felt wound by a cobweb, that he/she knew populated of enormous spiders and, who knows, perhaps poisonous.

Suddenly the noise of a motor felt him that was turned on, it had been originating for a two weeks of meters in front of them, really in the more rent than the tangle of pipes. The gruppetto divided him: one of the watches, immediately quickly followed by Emile, Franco and Michel him fiondò in the direction from which noise originated, really in the beautiful mean of the tangle of pipes and cobwebs. Well soon owed turn on the torches not to go to beat from some part to every footstep.

Pious, Sam and the other watch stirred toward left. If some automezzos it owed, unbelievable to tell him, to go out of that tangle, would not be certain gone out to the right, where the swamp there was with the heaps of the sand of discard.

Some instant after the first group had turned on the torches the motor it felt him roar, it was a very strong noise, it seemed a truck.

Was a truck! Suddenly a wall of rusted plate lifted him on the left side of the laveria and a big truck it slowly emerged out of the tangle of pipes. You/they had drawn an intercapedine, perfectly hidden in the tangle of pipes, plates, pomps and machineries you launch, that could entertain straight a truck. The pipes were evidently diverted directly in the large case of the truck, which, at night it went out then through that mechanism of lifting of the side plate of the laveria.

The truck was to no more than five or six meters from the gruppetto constituted by the watch, from Pious and from Sam, but he didn't succeed in seeing who drove him/it, also because the three had not turned on the torches.

"It shoots to the rubbers" suddenly Sam howled.

Really at that time the left anterior rubber of the truck passed in front of the watch, it was impossible the target to miss.

You heard a shot, immediately followed by a second and by the explosion of the rubber. The truck jolted and perceptibly tilted him on the left. At that time Pious it realized that it was full of sand of cromite up to the edge: the bump had made to fall a po'facendola of it to slip down along the side of the truck.

It was Emile to shout something in Malagasy. Pious you/he/she could not intend the language, but the peremptory tone was enough to make him to understand that you/he/she was imposing him halt, or something of the kind, to the driver of the truck.

The mighty mean still roared one time and, for an instant, Pious he/she thought that they wanted to try a desperate escape, but really at that time a third hit of gun was heard, followed by a new explosion and by to also get flabby some back rubber. The truck as a defeated giant, stopped him and the motor was extinguished.

Emile still shouted something in Malagasy and turned on Sam a torch. Oddly nobody opened the door of the truck. Then Pious it understood: Emile had told the driver to be firm, in attended that the others arrived - you/he/she could not be said that it was not prudent. In less than one minute you/they were reached by the two watches lain in ambush himself/herself/themselves to the superior entry of the laveria and from the four that you/they were penetrated under the laveria between pipes and spiders.

Only to that point, following another peremptory order of Emile, the door of the truck opened. Two individuals went out from there that in a first Pious moment it didn't recognize for the too dark.

Only when Sam illuminated them with his/her torch, Pious it recognized the frightened faces of it Wins, the capocantiere of the laveria, and of Roger Manalavoqualcosa, the manager of Brieville.

21

Pious he/she a pasta of almost Neapolitan dimensions, trabordante of chocolate from all the parts and, inevitably he.

"I knew him/it" it said some whipped cream licking himself/herself/itself from the fingers "this pasta is really ingestibili."

All smiled, inclusive Sam Fox that you/he/she had come to find them to the Chalet Des Roses. Two days had passed by the agitated facts of Brieville. It wins it was to the arrests to Tanà, while Manalavoitra, the manager of Brieville that had contrived the whole system of the thefts, had been, for now, only dismissed in trunk. Sam doubted that you/he/she would have been tried and, even more, that could be condemned.

"And everything this despite we have picked him/it with the hands in the sack up" it said Pious, more desolate than irritated.

"There east the Afrique" Sam responded widening the braccias "however the main point is that cannot make damages anymore."

"Perfect, everything is well that that it ends well" Sergio said, parodying, he/she is not known if knowingly, the Nick Carter of the TV of the boys.

Sergio was gloating, mountains of cromite it was foretasted to 48% and with the 10% of discount, better of so you/he/she would not be been able to go for him. Without keeping in mind that between AM and Morarano to this point they were firm.

"You think that Manalavoitra had made to systematize to expenses of the Morarano the road that brings toward west up to the Route from Brieville 1. And you/he/she had done him for his/her trucks of stolen cromite. These reached the Route 1 and from here the I bring of Mahajanga to the north. This system has worked up to last year, when someone, to the I bring of Mahajanga, you/he/she has acknowledged the traffic and you/he/she has started to blackmail Manalavoitra. Besides Josephine had acknowledged the shortages and you/he/she had told me. Manalavoitra felt him hunted. Then last year, taking advantage of the change of mines, you/he/she has contrived a new system. It replaced the stolen cromite with an equivalent quantity of the sand of I discard him/it. This way the accounts of the tonnages returned, while the quality was worsened. But this worsening could be attributed to the change of mine. Besides you/he/she had started to it stuffed to pass the cromite under the nose, the trucks they traveled at night toward Moramanga and Tamatave, where the cromite came stab in the new well closed store and checked of Smanzi, which obviously was accomplice and he/she practically bought the stolen cromite to half price."

"Then the carrots and the lost stratigraphies nothing don't have anything to do with it?it still " did Pious, watching out well that Sergio felt, since nothing of the three million of tons of cromite had not told him that, to Ankazo, they were waiting for best times.

"No, they have been really lost. He/she knows, teacher, there east the Afrique" Sam responded, making the occhiolino, not seen by Sergio, to Pious.

"Then to Beforonama and Ranomanano" concluded Pious turning to the students "and. attention, _there east the Afrique_."

## Thanks

I desire to thank all those people that have helped me in the layout of this book: in first place Katia that has sustained me always supported and that you/he/she has been the my believer reader and proofreader before, I add then Andrew and Teresa with their suggestions and suggestions.

I still desire to thank the marvelous people of Madagascar that has inspired good part of the adventures here described and, particularly, Michael, Malagasy of adoption and irreplaceable guide, to which I owe, besides, also the title of the novel.

## The author

Giovanni Grieco was born to Cernusco on the Shipping (Me) in 1966.

Graduated in Sciences Geologiche near the university of the Studies in Milan, you/he/she has continued the first academic career with the Doctorate of Search and then with Check of Search. From 2002 it is researcher near the Department of Sciences of the Earth, where titular is of the desk of mining Layers and prospecting. Beginning from 1994 you/he/she has participated in numerous projects in mining and environmental field, that you/they have brought him/it to mature a long working experience, over that in Italy, in different Countries, among which Turkey, Albania, Romania, Russia, USA, Madagascar.

Teacher of Sciences in the second degree middle school from 1994 to 2000, has been also teacher of the Schools of Specialization for the teaching, for which you/he/she has been titular of the desk of Didactics of the Sciences of the Earth from 2003 to 2008. Impassioned inventor of table games, has been for a long time partner founder of the EPTA, publishing house of table games, for which you/he/she has written screen-plays of games of role and fantasy. The game Trixi, from him invented, you/he/she has received the special mention for the innovation from the jury of Lucca Games 1995.

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