The waiter appeared almost immediately. They both ordered the Wiener schnitzel and, at the waiter's recommendation, two bottles of Gambrinus, which he said came from eastern Bohemia and he personally preferred over the better-known Pilsner Urquell.
The beer was served immediately.
Three minutes later, as the waiter approached their table with the food, Berezovsky and party rose from their table and walked down the aisle.
Castillo waited until they were almost out of the dining car before asking, "Well, Jack, what do you think?"
"Nice ass on the sister."
"Nice boobs, too, but that wasn't exactly what I had in mind."
Davidson sipped thoughtfully from his beer, then said, "We'll just have to see what happens. I have the feeling that guy's a heavy hitter."
"Yeah. I think he is. And I think I'm in over my head with this. I wish Delchamps was here."
[THREE]
Castillo and Davidson had been in their compartment no more than five minutes when there was a knock at the door.
Davidson opened it a crack, then slid it fully open.
The sister moved gracefully through the door. She held four beer glasses by their stems in one hand.
Max stood up and looked at her, wagging his stump of a tail.
"Hello," the sister said.
"Hello," Davidson said.
Berezovsky stepped into the compartment. He held two foil-cap-topped bottles of Gambrinus in each hand. Max stiffened, showed his teeth, growled deep in his throat, and looked poised to jump at Berezovsky.
"Sit, Max," Castillo ordered sternly in Hungarian.
Max sat down but continued to show his teeth.
Berezovsky, who had frozen two steps into the compartment, smiled uneasily.
"Well, you know what they say, Tom," Castillo said in English, "about dogs being good judges of character."
"But I come bearing gifts," Berezovsky said, raising--slowly--the beer bottles.
"And you know what else they say, 'Beware of Russians bearing gifts'--or is that 'the Greeks'?"
"It's the Greeks and you know it," the sister said in English.
Nice voice. Nice teeth.
She sat down and crossed her legs.
Nice legs.
"Let the nice man in, Max," Castillo said in Hungarian. "I'll let you bite him later."
"Your Hungarian is very fluent," Berezovsky said in Hungarian. "You could be from Budapest."
"Yes," Castillo agreed.
The sister smiled.