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we should comply with keeping the secret as they asked; in fact she was more of a believer than her husband. Of course, to tell the truth, he didn't say it wasn't the truth, but only that he doubted it before he finally admitted it. At this point other gentlemen from UMMO came to our house. I knew one who did not speak, and another one who was older and who had spent a lot of time in South America. These days we have had a lot of work. In addition to which I know they are also dictating letters to another gentleman who is an administrative assistant. I wrote under dictation to other gentlemen to whom 1 4 ror wood a ed sowrd re we had not written before, all of them in Madrid except one in Valencia, this last one also a doctor, and the others are an engineer of the I.C.A.L., a writer, a university professor of Exact Sciences, and two others whose professions I don't know. I talked by phone with the professor of Exact Sciences and he was quite intrigued and asked me a lot of questions, but finally told me that he thought I was the one who had been writing the papers covering some questions he asked about a thing called THEORY OF RETICULA in its application to stochastical processes. If you could have seen how surprised he was by the answer they gave him! It took a lot of work to make him see that I had not studied mathematics and was not a professor as he said I was. On the other hand, they have stopped writing to some of the gentlemen, for example the industrial engineer On account of all this, my brother- in-law, who had been told what was happening, had a quarrel with me because he thought the affair could get us into serious trouble, but when they don't give any reasons, I don't accept advice, so I answered by asking him to tell me what kind of trouble could happen to me. Because when I type things they dictate to me, I am not doing anything against the law. The truth is that he was more scared than I was because he finally became convinced that they were telling the truth in saying they came from UMMO. But from having dealt with them I am convinced they are the best people I have ever seen in my lifetime. We of Earth would like to be as free of malice (ondskap)as they are, and so understanding and impartial in comprehending the most intimate things. Just to hear the gentleness and earnestness with which they reprehend and say things makes their portrait. And don't think they are fools; even when they glance at you, they seem to be looking through you. But toward the close of last year they dictated some things to me in which they said to one of their correspondents that one of their interplanetary ships was going to come between Janary and May. 45