A Swin (Roald Dahl)

William Botibol is a passenger of a British ship, where is done bets every night based on a riddle made by the captain of the ship to guess the kilometers traveled by the ship in a period of 24HR, they call it the boat competition where the winner would win six thousand dollars. All passengers on the ship bet on a greater or lesser number that the one guessed by the captain. Botinol bet almost all of his wife Ethel's two-year savings and the next day realizing that he was going to lose the bet and his savings, he executes a plan that doesn't go as he planned.

Main Characters
-William Botibol
-The women leaning over the rail

Secondary Characters
-Captain: He is the captain of the ship and guess the race of the day
-Maggie: A know of the women leaning over the rail
-The purses’s: Leads the night bet
-Mrs. Renshaw: Passenger

¿But what was the plan?

The number Botibol bet was of less kilometers than the captain guess, so he’s losing but he thinks that if the ship started to go backward the kilometers of the ship would increase and he can win, and for that to happen, he would have to throw himself into the sea faking an accident and when they rescue him, the ship would have to return for him and could win the bet.

If Botibol is going to throw himself into the sea it is very important that someone is watching the “accident” so can ask for help and rescue him. So, before he threw himself into the sea, he thinks of all the possibilities of not being rescued and he only found two reasons why the woman who was watching him wouldn`t ask for help. First, she might have bad hearing and bad eyesight and second, the women might be the owner of one of the high numbers in the competition so to be sure he went to talk to her. After a short conversation he realized that she saw and listened perfectly and that she didn`t know anything about the competition, so he threw himself into the sea

Botibol jumped up and out as far as he could go, and at the same time he shouted 'Help!, and he arm raised above it, waving, once, twice the women for a moment looked as if she were not quite sure what she ought to do: throw a lifebelt, run away and find help because the situation wasn’t clear, but second later she seemed to relax and he sat down, then another women call Maggie came out, and walk over the first women and said “So there you are, I’ve been searching for you, you know you’re meant to wait me” and the first women said “It’s very strange, a man jumped off the deck just now, with his clothes on, such a nice man, he waved to me”

So, nobody will rescue Mr. Boltibol and he probably is going to died and the women or have mental problems or she thought he just want to swim