A Romance Of The Steppe

Contained in the collection A Secret Service.
Anton Prehznev was on a secret mission to the little Russian town of Lebiazhia when an old friend in the Tsar's Dragoons asked if a friend of his could travel with him to Irkutsk. Prehznev was quite surprised when that friend turned out to be Mariana Nestoff, "an exceedingly handsome, dark-eyed young lady of about 22". The long journey would reveal they both had secrets.