5-HELENA RUSSELL

April 1, 1971

Carolyn woke up rather early on this day because she felt something hard at her back. It actually felt as if she had slept the whole night on something very hard. When she opened her eyes, she noticed that she lay on the floor. But how had she landed there? And then Carolyn remembered that terribly wild dream. She had been on board Captain Gregg's ship; the sea was wild and worst of all, pirates all around her.

They had stared at her with wild desire. Just as they had been about to ravish her, Captain Gregg was there and had rescued her. Then both had been washed overboard by a colossal wave. And then she remembered nothing more.

Now she lay on the floor. She wanted to go back to bed again, because she didn't feel very well after that dream. As Mrs. Muir tried to get up from the floor, she noticed that her hands were full of tar. But how had it come on her hands? And then it came to her like lightning bolt. Captain Gregg, that underhanded man of a ghost! She cried in her thoughts because she couldn't bring the words out of her mouth. Somehow her voice had failed.

Carolyn managed to get to her feet again. She ran like a fury from the bedroom in the direction of the bathroom. She wanted to wash up that tar as soon as possible. In her excitement, she didn't notice that a magical hand opened the bedroom door and the bathroom door was opened in the same way.

Somehow Mrs. Muir got off that tar from her hands. She swore terrible revenge on the Captain. Then suddenly her voice was back when she heard a deafening laughter, which she knew very well.

"Okay, Captain, you had your joke and you can count on it that I will find a way to get back at you!"

At this, she only heard a terrible "Blast" and then nothing more.

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At the same time as Mrs. Muir was feverishly thinking up revenge and how she could pay back the Captain Claymore had also awakened. But this condition wouldn't last long. Daniel had, in the meantime, arrived at Claymore's home to carry out his second joke. When Claymore tried to get up, he fell back on the bed and fell asleep again. His body began twitching as he realized that he was on a terrible ship someplace on the high seas. He become very seasick as the waves got bigger and bigger and the ship start to rock even harder. Claymore got greener in the face. He couldn't control himself any longer, leaned across the rail and started to heave.

Suddenly Claymore was awake and found himself in front of his mirror. He had no idea how he had come there. He couldn't remember anything! When he looked in the mirror, he saw that he was green in the face. But how could that be? The only explanation for it was that he had somehow had to have recently been on a ship.

The thought didn't come him right away that it was April 1st and Captain Gregg had gotten him in this mess as an April Fool's joke.

Daniel was fiendishly pleased about Claymore's silly, green face. Then his thoughts went back to Carolyn. What kind of ambush had she thought up in the meantime? He had to reckon with everything when he got back.