Subj: DS:Legends 6
Date: 2/18/02 10:00:16 AM Central Standard Time
From: Aesgaard

Isaac Collins (johnathan frid) walked over the docks as he consulted the plans of his builders and made the decisions of his town. He was preoccupied in business as Christopher Stockbridge (roger davis) approached him.

"Mr. Collins ?"

"Yes,"

"I am looking for my uncle." The younger man replied. "Where is he ?"

"If you find him," Isaac barely looked up. "Let me know." Stockbridge made a face as he turned on his heel. He tramped back along the loose wood boards of the dock as he peered through them to the water below. He was hoping Collins was a better ship-builder than a dock-builder as he noticed the movement of men under the boards.

"What do you do with a drunken sailor..........Malloy, what's the rest ?" A drunken voice mumbled under the influence of alcohol. He stepped off the planks and turned to look under the bank under the dock. He noticed his Uncle Lionel(jerry lacy) sharing a bottle of rum with Seamus Malloy(frank schofield).

"Uncle !" He scolded them. "You promised me you stopped drinking! Father will be upset !"

"I promised not to drink ale." Stockbridge staggered out. "I said nothing of rum. 'Sides, it gets cold working in these waters."

"But you will get terminated."

"Correction." Isaac stood over them on the docks with his long coat flapping in the breeze. "He has been terminated. Good day." He continued on his way.

"Collins !" The elder Stockbridge pushed his younger brother's son out of the way. "You can't dismiss me......" He clumsily swayed as he sloshed on to land. "I know what you've done. I know your secrets. You can't fire me !"

"I just did." Isaac ignored him as he continued his business.

Grace Collins (lara parker) had a different sort of day as she dismissed her students and closed the school house. As he turned, she was surprised by the visage of a woman concealed under a hood.

"Oh !" She shrieked.

"Mrs. Collins ?"

"Yes."

"Valerie Esmerelda DuVal." Angelique's mother (kathryn leigh scott) pulled down her hood. "How dare you tell my daughter ghost stories !"

"Now see here......."

"No, you see here." Valerie glared back with eyes of fire. "She is a harmless child. A bit free spirited, perhaps, but weren't we all at that age ? I will not allow you to teach her...............witchcraft !"

"Mrs. DuVal," Grace beamed back. "Your daughter is an incorrigible little witch who needs a good spanking ! And if you cannot do it........"

"Do you presume to tell me how to be a parent ?" Valerie glared back to her. "It is not easy to be a single parent here in the middle of this wilderness. Especially for one not born on a silver spoon ! Now, where is my child ? I will take her now !"

"Your child......" Grace smiled. "Is following your habits.......out on the docks !" She was slapped upside the head.

Free to her vices, Angelique (sara smythe) was looking for free food or anything she could steal and sell for it. She was chewing on a piece of dried meat her tiny hand had pulled out of the barrel she was on as Amadeus Collins (john karlen) arrived to catch up with his brother. He grinned at her naiveté innocence and handed her a coin as he looked for Clara, Grace's sister to meet him. Not yet his wife and she was already leaving him waiting.

"Excuse me." Aloysius Stokes (thayer david)was standing about looking for his brother as he too arrived from Boston. He stopped one of the workers as he nervously looked around. "Where can I find Magistrate Stokes ? Did he make it ?"

"No," Angelique spoke up out of no where as she chewed her free meal. "He did not." She spit a piece of gristle. "He's dead."

"Now," Amadeus turned to listen to her. "Where would a little girl get such unholy ideas ?"

"From the ghosts of Collinsport." She continued chewing. "They say he was killed by Isaac Collins." She continued her tall tale to her audience as Clara (nancy barrett) eavesdropped from a few feet away.

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