The radio reports of the sudden tropical storm into which the freighter was heading caused the captain to order a change of course. The news made little difference to the four passengers, but to the dining room steward who was traveling under a false passport it came as a sickening shock. It he could not jump ship in Rio the next day as he intended, the fortune that waited him there would be lost.
The radio reports of the sudden tropical storm into which the freighter was heading caused the captain to order a change of course. The news made little difference to the four passengers, but to the dining room steward who was traveling under a false passport it came as a sickening shock. It he could not jump ship in Rio the next day as he intended, the fortune that waited him there would be lost.