The next day I went to Fenner’s camera store and bought the camera and tape recorder. When I got back to the apartment there was a package for me. It contained several cartons of cigarettes and a pen. All I had to do now was cool my heels. While I was waiting, a messenger arrived with two checks from the Brotherhood Coin Vending Company. By picking up the phone and asking, I discovered I could cash the checks without leaving the building. The service was great.
It was about two o’clock when the phone rang. I picked it up and said hello.
“I am calling,” a man’s voice said, “to tell you that Mr. Kirilenko wants you to know that your plane will leave from New York tomorrow afternoon.”
“I’ll be there,” I said, “at the same hotel I was before.”
He hung up. I called the hotel in New York and
