Subject:  DS:Smart Shadows 6
From: Aesgaard
Date:  Sat May 18, 2002  9:15 am

It was late that night when the charter bus finally reached Collinsport. The bus driver stopped on the corner of Parker and Dock Streets as the bus driver hurriedly opened his doors and let go of two of his passengers. There was screaming in German as the two obnoxious travelers disembarked.

"Oh yeah, well, the same goes for your mother !" The slender one with a scar on his face yelled at the driver. He shook an annoyed fist as the disappearing tail-lights of the bus and grunted before turning to his heavier brunette companion. "Imagine, KAOS forcing us to travel second rate because we botched that last mission. Sitting behind that obnoxious kid....." He turned to scream in the direction of the bus. "I will have my revenge !"

"I'm sorry, Siegfried, you had to sit behind the baby."

"Well, I had the last laugh," Siegfried and his companion, a huge Bavarian known only as Schtarker, crossed the street and continued through the dark dimly lit street. "I took his lollipop !" He thrust it into his mouth.

"Boy, Siegfried," Schtarker looked around the dark shadows up and down the street as they walked alongside the local cemetary. "This Collinsport is a spooky town. I bet it has lots of ghosts. Ooooooooo-oooo- oooooooo..." He mimmicked a ghost.

"Schtarker ! This is KAOS. We do not Oooooooo here !!! We are here to get back that dummkopt microfilm."

"Sorry,Siegfried," Schtarker looked a little dumber than usual as they looked for an abandoned house to make into a base. "Tell me truth, everyone says you were one who bumped off this Paul Stoddard. Is it true ?"

"Nein," Siegfried looked over the cemetary wall. "But I wish it was."

"Why ?"

"Because Stoddard was a POW at that idiot Stalag 13." He remembered the stories his father had passed down from the war. "The prisoners there were tunneling there like prairie dogs ! And right under the nose of the stupid commodant !"

Siegfried and Schtarker stopped suddenly at a truck parked in the gates of the cemetary. Two men were carrying a huge coffin toward the flat end of it.

"Barnabus, we got witnesses !" One called with a Brooklyn accent.

"Willie !"

"What ?" Siegfried looked at the two of them. "Here let me help." He popped open the back of the truck and motioned to Schtarker to help the two strangers with the coffin.

"Ein, zwei, drei !!!!" The four of them heaved the thing into the truck. Siegfried patted the coffin.

"Nice coffin," He turned to Barnabus. "You know, as a boy, I used to do some grave robbing myself."

"Thank you very much." Barnabus quietly excused himself as Willie and him entered the cab. They had to get the coffin to the Old House and the truck back to the caretaker's shack.

"Excuse me, " Schtarker turned to Willie. "We need place to stay. Where hotel in your beautiful town ?"

"What ?" Willie started the pick-up. "Oh, uh, up the street."

"Danke." Siegfried and Schtarker watched them drive off. "Such wonderful warm people. Just like my family in the Fatherland."
"Germany, Siegfried ?" Schtarker asked.

"No, Argentina."

Dark Shadows is a Dan Curtis Production.