ntinue with me."

"Of course," Paul said. "Now then, how quickly can our assistance to you
get underway?"

"The question is," Shvernik said, "just how much you can do in the way
of helping our movement. For instance, can you get advanced type weapons
to us?"

The .38 Noiseless slid easily into Paul's hands. "Obviously, we can't
smuggle sizable military equipment across the border. But here, for
instance, is a noiseless, recoilless hand gun. We could deliver any
reasonable amount within a month."

"Five thousand?" Shvernik asked.

"I think so. You'd have to cover once they got across the border, of
course. How well organized are you? If you aren't, possibly we can help
there, but not in time to get five thousand guns to you in a month."

Ana was puzzled. "How could you possibly get that number across the
Soviet borders?" Her voice had a disturbing Slavic throatiness. It
occurred to Paul Koslov that she was one of the most attractive women he
had ever met. He was amused. Women had never played a great part in his
life. There had never been anyone who had really, basically, appealed.
But evidently blood was telling. Here he had to come back to Russia to
find such attractiveness.

He said, "The Yugoslavs are comparatively open and smuggling across the
Adriatic from Italy, commonplace. We'd bring the things you want in that
way. Yugoslavia and Poland are on good terms, currently, with lots of
trade. We'd ship them by rail from Yugoslavia to Warsaw. Trade between
Poland and U.S.S.R. is on massive scale. Our agents in Warsaw would send
on the guns in well concealed shipments. Freight cars aren't searched at
the Polish-Russian border. However, your agents would have to pick up
the deliveries in Brest or Kobryn, before they got as far as Pinsk."

Ana said, her voice very low, "Visiting in Sweden at the Soviet Embassy
in Stockholm is a colonel who is at the head of the Leningrad branch of
the KGB department in charge of counter-revolution, as they call it. Can
you eliminate him?"

"Is it necessary? Are you sure that if it's done it might not raise such
a stink that the KGB might concentrate more attention on you?" Paul
didn't like this sort of thing. It seldom accomplished anything.

Ana said, "He knows that both Georgi and I are members of the movement."

Paul Koslov gaped at her. "You mean your position is known to the
police?"

Shvernik said, "Thus far he has kept the information to himself. He
found out when An