Volume 1, No. 1

Banquet / Tyrras ... 41 

to the ambulance and helped him into the passenger seat. Bellamy, now feeling more empathy, had walked with the doctor and Bondarenko, and had held the door while the bruised director of the Amur Machine Works climbed in. Tanaka knelt beside his boss inside the ambulance. Morozin, Bellamy was astonished to see, slipped the doctor several American bills.
The ambulance drove away. Morozin watched it for a moment and then went over to Misha and Yury. They began talking in hushed voices. Bellamy couldn¹t understand anything anyway, so he returned to Vera, still sitting on the steps.
"I saw Boris put some American money into that doctor's pocket," Bellamy said with a hint of protest in his voice. "What was that for?"
"And without doubt, he slipped some dollars to the two men as well," Vera answered with annoyance. "It is