Subj: HAWAIIAN HONEYMOON Part Eight
Date: 8/2/00 10:31:44 PM Central Daylight Time
From: N.E. Collins

Julia comforted Barnabas as he tried to regain himself. He was visibly shaken at his IChing experience. Try as he might he couldn't quite make Julia understand why this young girl frighten him so much, and now Julia was thinking that maybe this wasn't such a crazy idea after all! Maybe she ought to give it a try! She picked up the bamboo wands and threw them on the table and came up with Hexagram Number 45, GATHERING TOGETHER. She placed her hands on the table and started to close her eyes when the wands suddenly burst into flames!

Julia and Barnabas pulled back painfully from the small explosion on the table and when the smoke cleared there was Angelique Collins all dressed in black! She had a wild look in her eyes and her mouth was smiling like she had just eaten something innocent. She started to laugh that annoying, grating laugh of hers and Julia had had ALL she could stand of this bitch! She lunged forward screaming, "I'LL KILL YOU!"

She grabbed Angelique and threw her to the ground before the witch finally vanished and rematerialized a few feet away! Julia was left groveling like an animal in the sand while Angelique's hair was a mess and she had a bleeding scratch mark on her beautiful face! She was livid! "You will be SO SORRY that you did that! I will make your lives before now seem like PARADISE in comparison!" She vanished in a gust of wind and smoke!

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Both the Professor and Dr. Collins agreed that Gilligan had died from the fall and that all the blood was due to a jagged rock that he must have landed on when he hit the ground. Gilligan had been up a very tall coconut tree, and he was throwing them down to Mary Anne below when all of the sudden he had screamed in pain and flailing his arms wildly he had fallen! He had dropped like a stone in front of the terrified farm girl whose screaming could probably have been heard on one of the neighboring islands.

They wrapped him for burial and placed him in a bamboo coffin and instead of burying him in the sand they decided to use one of the larger caves as a crypt. The Professor had stated that in the event of a rescue they wouldn't be able to transfer the body as well if it and the coffin had decomposed in the sand. This way they would both be better perserved. The body would be mummified and the coffin wouldn't rot at all in the tropical air.

The Skipper served as minister as they placed the coffin containing his little buddy in the island family crypt. Ginger sang Amazing Grace, and the rest of the castaways were respectfully griefstricken. Poor Gilligan!

If only Julia had inspected the body more thoroughly they might have been able to put off what was to be inevitable. Gilligan had not died from any fall. He was dead before he even hit the ground from a magically inflicted vampire bat bite! If only Julia had been more professional they may have been able to prevent what fate had in store for them all!

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