I started thinking it through from the beginning.
For safety’s sake, I sat on the grass at the side of the Kiev highway – waiting for a lift was time well spent.
What difference did it make to me how Dovid literally came by the gold?
The difference lay precisely in whether or not Laevskaya was involved.
Miron claimed she was.
Most importantly, unreservedly and categorically – the knot was tied first by Evsey. Which meant Evsey also brought along the pouch. Miron was a stranger to him but not to Laevskaya. Evsey wouldn’t have delivered such a burden to a stranger. Whereas Laevskaya had gone to a relative, and what’s more one who was dependent in every sense, with the confidence that everything she ordered done would be done. Miron didn’t know Evsey. Conjuring him up from what Laevskaya
