The fear was always there since one summer three years before, when providence played an ill trick by providing suddenly a picnic party among the beech woods who had brought with them an expensive cat with a blue collar round its neck on a scarlet silk leash.
Uda batean-hiru urte lehenago-bere baitan piztutako beldurra ez zitzaion artean iraungi: patuak ziplo ataka gaizto bat ekarri zion pagoen artean picniczale batzuk ezarri zituenean, garranga urdin batez lepoa inguraturik eta zetazko lokarri gorrimin bati loturik zihoan katu ponpoxo bat lagun zutela.