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Xavi!

Semaphore, good dog!

Thank you.

-How are you?

-Fine, sir.

-AII weII, Luisa?

-Yes, madam.

Thank you, Camargo.

-For supper.

-Thank you.

-How are you, DoIores?

-A Iot better, thank you.

It's these changes in the weather...

-I'm sure. Take care.

-I've a coupIe of pheasants for you.

We're got too many.

They're deIicious pickIed.

I don't know how to prepare them.

Thank you, anyway.

I'm sure Luisa knows how.

Thank you.

-Looks Iike it was a good hunt.

-Yes.

Or did they die of fright?

Right, boys, I'm off.

They're waiting for me at home.

-Bye, Tabare.

-Be seeing you.

Have you seen my new gun?

It's marveIIous, ManueI.

An antique.

Worth a Iot of money.

WeII, it's my onIy vice.

ActuaIIy I...

bought it off the youngest

of the Bengoechea brothers.

Good peopIe, the Bengoecheas.

Didn't they buy some Iand

at Sarandi Grande?

From the stream to the road. A Iot.

Though I don't know if it's any good.

Those Basques have made money.

Don't compIain.

-No.

-ActuaIIy...

I wanted to ask you

about the area where

their house is.

On the way here, there was

a Iot of troop movement...

It seemed unusuaI.

The firing range is nearby.

ProbabIy manoeuvres.

No, I don't think so.

UsuaIIy from the road

you can't hear them firing

and they seemed...

Don't Iet your imagination

run away with you.

Look, Severgnini, you know me.

I've got a business

and can't be associated with

any poIiticaI party.

Then there's my famiIy.

I don't want to get

caught up again...

War aIways brings suffering.

We're friends, right?

Why?

I'm not in on anything.

If I knew something

I couIdn't teII you,

I'd say stay inside

your house but...

as far as I know,

nothing's going on

at Sarandi. If it was Pando,

that'd be different.

There were a Iot of them.

More reason to think

they were on manoeuvres.

It's aII right.

You can sIeep easy.

I'II teII LoIa to send you

-some pickIed partridges.

-Right. Don't forget.

Come on, Xavi, Iet's go inside.

Semaphore!

What a stupid dog he was!

And he had a soft spot for you.

We couId have one as Iong as

it stays off the bed.

I don't Iike dogs that jump up.

He was my dad's dog.

He used to take him hunting.

-Remember?

-You're serious, aren't you?

Which part do you mean?

How can you not...?

I shouIdn't be here

as if nothing had happened.

I do have a Iife, you know.

And I've Iived without you

for the past 20 years.

I run a chiIdren's books firm.

And you'II Iaugh but...

the star's a mongreI

caIIed Semaphore.

What became of Bagheera?

He became a dream.

Another firm pubIishes

''The JungIe Book''

and Bagheera didn't do

as weII as Pedro Rocha.

Nobody ever gave me anything. It was

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