"That can be arranged. But where is your companion? I understood there were to be two of you."
"He is, shall we say, taking a stroll around Moscow."
"But he can't do that!" the Ambassador said. "The President said he was the most valuable man on Earth! He might get arrested."
"That is the chance we have to take. Now if you'll show me to that room, I'll go about my business."
Some distance away, on the opposite side of the Kremlin from the American Embassy, Philip Merriwether, the most valuable spy that ever existed, waited patiently for the ray that would be generated inside the Embassy to strike his head. In a few seconds, he would know even more than he already did.
He smiled happily. This was the life!
THE END