He shook his head. “No, no. It has nothing to do with me. Please just throw it away if it’s no trouble.”
It wouldn’t do for Frau Hauswald to read what was written on the list, he thought. She might think he was a miserable skinflint.
“We’ve been neighbors for some time now,” said Seibert. “And yet I still don’t know your first name. Mine is Henrich.”
“I’m Gertrude. Please to meet you.”
Seibert grinned from ear to ear. In the USSR, the name Gertrude had a particular meaning—it was short for “Geroinia Truda” or “Heroine of Labor.”
I’ll wait for my uninvited guests to leave, he said to himself, and then I’ll ask her in for cocoa.
RUSSIAN TREASURES SERIES
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Translated from Russian by Rose France
Book cover illustration by Olga Tereschenko
This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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