Story
A beautiful Russian widow in San Francisco wishes to return to Russia after her American husband loses everything in a speculation and shoots his brains out. Along with her personal maid she is given passage to Hong Kong aboard a Russian naval vessel.
Writer
Having been wounded during the exercises, the sailor Fedos Chizhik is sent as a orderly to the house of Captain Luzgin. The captain's wife - a young, beautiful, and spoiled woman - is very hard on the orderly.
Novel
Saved by Russian sailors black boy turned out to be the smart and kind nipper.