- The captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port.
- Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St. James has things well organized, a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving, if rather more hot-blooded mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
- Henry St. James, Captain of a large ferry that shuttles between the British colony in Gibraltar and the Spanish-ruled peninsula of Ceuta in northern Morocco, is a man who covertly maintains a wife at one port, and a mistress at another. For security reasons, access to Gibraltar is restricted and the only member of the Golden Fleece's crew eligible for shore leave is St. James, so the likelihood of St. James' women meeting is remote despite their relatively close proximity. Each woman represents a different aspect of womanhood that the Captain finds attractive. Maud in Gibraltar is a dutiful wife and housekeeper, a good cook, and a faithful homebody, while Nita in Morocco is a voluptuously sexy siren who appeals to his more hedonistic nature, which loves dancing and drinking until dawn. Trouble in Paradise begins when Maud begins to crave a more carefree existence, and Nita longs to develop her domestic skills.—duke1029
- Claude Ricco, the captain of the Golden Fleece, a small passenger ship that regularly sails the two day trip between the North African port of Kalique, where it is based, and the British territory of Gibraltar, is relaying to Lawrence St. James why his nephew, British national Henry St. James, the Golden Fleece's former captain and Ricco's friend, was just executed by firing squad in Kalique. Both men were aware that Henry had traveled the world in search of what he considered the perfect life, something that he found in his situation in Kalique/Gibraltar. Ricco tells of Henry's marriage to Nita St. James in Kalique, they who lived a life of wild nights out every night, champagne and partying, exotic Nita, a flamenco dancer, the type of woman who shared his want of that hedonistic lifestyle, at least in part on Henry's side. Ricco also tells of Henry's concurrent marriage to fellow Brit Maud St. James in Gibraltar, she a prim and proper woman with who he shared a want for a domesticated lifestyle as tea-totaling homebodies, albeit with the occasional nip of sherry. Henry felt that each woman fulfilled half his needs, each half discrete and thus they in combination fulfilling him wholly. He was able to hide each woman from the other and Maud largely from the crew of the ship due to the restricted access the women would have had specifically to the ship, and he being the only person on the Golden Fleece with a British passport allowing unabated access into Gibraltar. Henry's march to the firing squad was indirectly related to he not being able to see that he was only seeing in each of his wives half a woman.—Huggo
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