in bread,
and cover it with a liberal portion of caviar. Good? Then you eat your
little sandwich and drink another glass of vodka. Then you start all
over again."

"I can see it could be fairly easy to get stoned, eating caviar Russian
style," Paul laughed.

They went through the procedure and the waiter wandered off.

Paul said, "I can take several days arranging the camera deal with you.
Then I can take a tour of the country, supposedly giving it a tourist
look-see, but actually making contact with more of your organization. I
can then return in the future, supposedly to make further orders. I can
assure you, these cameras are going to sell very well in the States.
I'll be coming back, time and again--for business reasons. Meanwhile, do
you have any members among the interpreter-guides in the local Intourist
offices?"

Shvernik nodded. "Yes. And, yes, that would be a good idea. We'll assign
Ana Furtseva to you, if we can arrange it. And possibly she can even
have a chauffeur assigned you who'll also be one of our people."

That was the first time Paul Koslov heard the name Ana Furtseva.

* * * * *

In the morning Leonid Shvernik came to the hotel in a Mikoyan Camera
Works car loaded with cameras and the various accessories that were
available for the basic model. He began gushing the advantages of the
Mikoyan before they were well out of the hotel.

The last thing he said, as they trailed out of the hotel's portals was,
"We'll drive about town, giving you an opportunity to do some snapshots
and then possibly to my country dacha where we can have lunch--"

At the car he said, "May I introduce Ana Furtseva, who's been assigned
as your guide-interpreter by Intourist for the balance of your stay?
Ana, Mr. John Smith."

Paul shook hands.

She was blond as almost all Russian girls are blond, and with the
startling blue eyes. A touch chubby, by Western standards, but less so
than the Russian average. She had a disturbing pixie touch around the
mouth, out of place in a dedicated revolutionist.

The car took off with Shvernik at the wheel. "You're actually going to
have to take pictures as we go along. We'll have them developed later at
the plant. I've told them that you are potentially a very big order.
Possibly they'll try and assign one of my superiors to your account
after a day or two. If so, I suggest that you merely insist that you
feel I am competent and you would rather co