The Second Class Passenger

Dawson sets out through Mozambique with a ten-pound bronze idol—and soon the rain has swallowed every street he knows. Lost in the dark, he knocks on a stranger’s door with the heavy curio in his hand.

In the brief night between a ship’s sightseeing tour and dinner aboard, the second-class passenger has one small errand for Miss Paterson: retrieve the idol she left behind. Instead, Dawson finds himself in a room with strangers whose welcome may not be the refuge it seems. Across these fifteen stories, Perceval Gibbon turns chance encounters into tests of nerve, manners and human nature, in settings where a person’s place in the world can matter—and appearances can mislead. What has Dawson stumbled into, and what will it take to get back to the ship?

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