On the Monday Erdbahn’s Prague office opened for business, Wilderness met Helmut Kruger. The man might have been a carbon copy of Voigt, a small, pocket-sized edition, wispy red hair, a fondness for bow ties. But he was a cheerier soul, refrained from stating his anti-Communist principles and seemed in no hurry to pack Wilderness off on his way.
He showed Wilderness a printed invitation to a British Embassy reception being held for the representatives of “Foreign Trade & Culture in Czechoslovakia” …
His Excellency requests the pleasure and blah blah blah …
RSVP Janis Bell, First Secretary
So—her knees were under the table.
“We should both go,” Kruger added.
Of course.