The Secret Sharer

The Secret Sharer is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909. As dusk begins to fall, the unnamed narrator of the story, the new Captain of a British vessel currently anchored at the mouth of the Meinam River in the Gulf of Siam, stands on the deck of his ship before joining his crew for supper. The time is approximately eight o'clock. At supper, the Captai...