Chapter 22: Stoking the Collinwood hearth, a'course
Be monocle'd and vested Professor Stokes got behind the wheel of his automobile in the parking lot of Maine University prepping himself to voyage back to Collinwood as he once ventured in his own days as a college student vying for the attentions of Elizabeth Collins.
"The lovely Elizabeth," he thought as he smiled through the windscreen, reving the engine of the car, pulling backward he removed his auto from the park spot of his classroom parking period. Off he drove the car to the highway bound for Collinwood as he recalled steering his cars in the past toward it. What had his soundtrack of adventure been back in those years? Elvis? The Andrews Sisters? Musical numbers from the 1940s? [Suggestions from the audience ARE WELCOME!]
All incantations from the professors teenage days echoed back to him as he drove forward toward the Collinwood estate he remembered from his youth of dating the splendid Elizabeth so long ago and later on feeling inadequate having her as a student in his own classroom at the same university he currently taught at so famously, as he drove it almost made the monocle fall from his brow-hold and he was so practiced to hold it there by now. Tilting his chin irreverenetly to this same task in challenge of his abilities he drove forward unknowing the two whohad beckond his interest earlier were on a motorbike behind him until his noticed them in his rearview mirror and nodded. Buzz Hacket nodded in response behind him.
Elliot kept thinking of the young Elizabeth Collins he knew both as a student and as afriend prior to her college career in university. Elliot recalled Elizabeth well in her youth as a concerned teenager from a reknown family, The Collins, THEE Collins, well known, famous for establishing the town Collsinsport of Maine in the history of Colonialism historians of the University recognize the name Collins well! They all recalled that even the nasty Trasks of Massechusetts delved into Collinwood for the sake of the Bouchards and Stokes was well acquainted with that history as well. The importance availed him to this very day. Bouchards and Trasks had pitted against each other overseas since the days of Luther decades before. Trask and Bouchard would war once more either side had sworn in England. Was it in Hampshire or Sheffield? WHO knows? Elliot couldn't tell you, he was just trying to ster this car tonight in front of the kids who pressed his interest in class today.