The Sonora state attorney general, the assistant attorney general, the inspectors, said that the problem might be, perhaps was, could conceivably be, you might say, a problem of the city police, headed by Don Pedro Negrete, twin brother of the university rector. And Kessler asked who Pedro Negrete was, whether he had been introduced to him, and the two energetic young officers who had escorted him everywhere and whose English wasn’t bad, said no, in fact Mr. Kessler and Don Pedro hadn’t crossed paths, and Kessler asked them to describe him, since maybe he’d seen him the first day, at the
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