DALE CLARK’S DARK SHADOWS- RESOLUTIONS IN TIME

 

DALE CLARK’S DARK SHADOWS-

RESOLUTIONS IN TIME

 

Chapter One

I’m not sure yet how these people fit into the story but a strange man named Simon who rents out a room from Timothy Green has killed Simon’s wife Janet and son Eric. Before Tim can attack Simon, the man uses a doll of Tim to cause Tim to go on fire and die. Simon says that Mr. Green paid the price for what they did. Simon catches a train for Ellsworth.

 

 

Chapter Two

Julia had run into one of her old college classmates and his wife who were vacationing in Maine. He asked her what she has been doing. How could she answer? “Fighting witches and warlocks, oh yes, then there were some Leviathans and my latest escapade was changing the course of history, all the while trying to cure a vampire who I’ve fallen in love with.”  She felt a little girl who peeked  into the living room and saw mom and dad assembling baby brother’s tricycle. You’ve just found out a secret but who do you tell?

 

She reads Liz’s mother’s diary entry on Sept13, 1929. Liz’s mom and Jameson, her father, have reconciled their differences. Roger is four years old. Cousin Cynthia will not make it because of the dreadful weather. They are having a party and Mrs. Drew and house guest Mr. Gatz will attend. The diary mentions Gimbels.

 

Barnabas comes in and they discuss his recovery to becoming human. The curse he suffers from is Angelique’s even though the Leviathans are responsible for his condition. Huh? I thought the Leviathans happened first, then Angelique lifted the curse and then died saving him?

 

Liz’s mom is named Maureen.

 

It starts to snow when the two go to Collinwood to show Liz the diary. “Good evening,” Barnabas says to Liz.

 

Though in the TV show I believe he did at times, drink, it is implied he never takes a drink when offered. He takes Roger up on a sherry and Julia wants one, too. The entry is about Roger’s birthday party. “You know sometimes I wonder if you were ever four years old,” Liz jokes.

 

Julia adds, “I was thinking exactly the same thing.”

 

“I’ll have you know I was an absolutely adorable child.”

 

Neither Liz nor Roger remember a Mr. Gatz. Liz gets an IDK. She wonders why her mother would stop writing about the party mid sentence.

 

Roger reads the newspaper and finds out that Tim Green was burned to death while his wife and boy were both decapitated in Bangor yesterday.

 

Mrs. Johnson tells them the food is ready.

 

Maggie returns. Hallie is living with them at Collinwood since the death of her Uncle Elliot Stokes. At last, to Barnabas things seemed to be going well. Outside, a cold wind blew against the house.

 

Chapter Three

Barnabas held down food hoping no one would notice how he was eating. He also has cold vapor coming from his mouth. Barnabas tells Willie that Maggie is back. Willie wants to go to the Blue Whale as it is night. After Willie leaves, Barnabas envied Willie in a way, his life was less complicated. Barnabas wonders how he could have done the things he did to Maggie. After that he realized that with Victoria there was no love but affection and delusion. If there was no car wreck, Vicki would have been as he was now. He thinks of Roxanne, too, and Josette. He’s not certain his declaration for Angelique was love or just to hold onto something.

 

Maggie wakes up from a horrible nightmare. She had moved to London and the nightmares faded but now are back. She and a friend had opened a boutique three miles from Westminster Abbey. She met Chuck who she professed love for. The life of Spring of 1967 was over but Chuck convinced her she had to go back to find out what was behind the dreams.

 

Darrell Pate ran Collinsport Inn for over 20 years (he has?). A Simon Gatz checks in and uses two dolls to switch Maggie and Josette in time. Carolyn and Maggie was talking (Maggie gets in an IDK) when Carolyn suggested a game of cards and when she turns, Maggie vanished. Carolyn tells Liz. Liz gets in an IDK.

 

When Liz tells Julia, Julia suspects to herself that Barnabas may be behind this! Josette appears before Barnabas in the Old House.

 

 

Chapter Four

Maggie spies Angelique and Ben from hiding in a closet. Maggie in the room Vicki stayed in and Angelique is checking up on Vicki, feeling Mrs. Collins is far too trusting. Maggie soon reunites with Vicki who helps her try to fit in as Josette. Maggie gets and IDK. Vicki tells her it is mid December 1795. Maggie didn’t want to tell Vicki that Vicki will return to 1795 or 1796 with Peter, her husband but for Vicki that hasn’t happened yet.

 

Julia finds Barnabas with Josette and assumes he is remaking Maggie into Josette again. Barnabas gets an IDK. Julia explains Maggie vanished but Barnabas explains that the woman before them is Josette in their own time of 1971. Barnabas wonders how Julia could think such a thing of him. Julia says, “I…I don’t know what you’re talking about.”  She is lying. Julia gets another IDK.

 

Sheriff Sam McDonald has five of his men looking for Maggie. Sam is the youngest sheriff the town ever had. He is medium sized with straight blonde hair and boyish face. They found a secret panel in Carolyn’s room. They assume Maggie’s been abducted and by Willie Loomis!

 

Vicki gets a dress for Maggie and fills her in on the family members. Joshua, Jeremiah and Abigail are siblings. Joshua’s wife is Naomi, mother to Barnabas and Sarah. Maggie meets Sarah. Andre hugs Maggie, believing her to be his daughter Josette.

 

Barnabas tells Julia in her place, he would have thought the same thing. She asks if he is going to tell Josette everything. “I…I don’t know,” he says. When Vicki switched places with Phyllis Wick, Phyllis Wick stayed for two minutes but Josette has been here for hours.

 

Roger and the young sheriff go to the Old House to question Willie, who, drunk, returns. Simon Gatz does an incantation at the Inn.

 

Willie pulls a gun and exclaims no one is going to keep him from Maggie this time. “My God!” Roger declared. Willie laughs, “God has very little to do with this, Roger!”

 

Willie runs out the door and unable to catch Willie, puts out a bulletin for his arrest over the squad car radio. Julia and Barnabas suspected that Sam McDonald’s words, “Willie ran off, he must have run like a man possessed…” is literally true.

 

 

Chapter Five

A storm was brewing. Carolyn does not believe Willie is responsible for the abduction of Maggie. She was not certain what was normal for herself let alone Willie. Last week, she ran into Willie at the Blue Whale and they at in the booth and talked for two hours, drinking wine coolers and watching the other people. They laughed.

 

“Julia, I didn’t even know you were in the house.”

 

Day: Carolyn even went searching in some of the closed off wings of the house. Julia cautioned, “IDK if that’s a good idea.”   Julia gets yet another IDK when Carolyn asks her if she believes Willie is innocent. When Roger joins Carolyn is trying to get Julia to share what she suspects, Julia gets yet another IDK. Julia called Quentin in NY. He promised to catch the first plane back. Roger has a silver Oldsmobile and will drive Julia back to the Old House on his way to work.

 

Simon has stolen Roger’s handkerchief from the washroom at the Fish Packing Plant. He uses it on a doll and it has Roger’s initials on it. Simon makes Roger drive into a telephone pole and Roger dies!

 

Simon laughs.

 

Josette, innocently tells Barnabas that Julia informed her of many things that have happened over the last two centuries. Barnabas says, “I can’t think of a more qualified person to be an instructor than Julia.”

 

“IDK about that,” Julia said, nervously. She feels awkward around the love that is evident between Barnabas and Josette.

 

 

Quentin arrives. He meets Josette for the first time. Quentin informs them that Roger is dead. Quentin will stay with Josette, while Julia and Barnabas go to Collinwood to be with Liz. Quentin asks if he thinks Roger’s death has anything to do with…Barnabas answers IDK.

 

Deputy Donald Bunton looked through Eagle Hill Cemetery. Willie hides in the northwest corner of the secret room in the mausoleum. He thinks about Jason. Simon comes into the room and makes sure no one will bother Willie.

 

Barnabas checks on David but David faked being asleep. Julia tries to calm Carolyn but she was at the limit of human endurance. Barnabas planned to go looking for Willie but didn’t want to leave Carolyn and Liz. In the kitchen, Willie gets a knife and knocks out Mrs. Johnson, who Simon instructs must live as a clue to the others.

 

David in his room wonders why he didn’t cry. He feels totally alone. David goes to the playroom where the music has started again. He finds Hallie there in a trance from Simon. At last tears of pain and anguish fell across David’s cheeks. He would give them everything: toys, books, games, peace of mind. They will never leave.

 

Liz dreamed about David and Hallie in a deep pit of poisonous snakes and vipers. Willie confronts her in the hallway.

 

Willie stabs Liz over and over and her screams bring Barnabas, Julia, Carolyn and Sam McDonald to the hall. Liz dies. Barnabas blocks the sheriff from shooting Willie but Willie attempts to stab Barnabas. “I’m going to kill you just like you killed all the other people and this time you’re gonna stay dead.”

 

It is the first time the sheriff ever had to kill a man: he shoots Willie and Willie dies. Barnabas laments Willie’s death while Carolyn laments Liz’s.

 

Chapter Six

Julia explains to Barnabas that Carolyn has had a complete mental breakdown and she had to send her to Wyncliffe. Mrs. Johnson will be all right and went into the village to stay with some friends for a while. Barnabas and Julia believe that Willie did not do this on hi sown, some evil force is at work, eliminating “us” one by one. Julia thinks this is all too familiar. Sam McDonald’s men, two of them, found the children strangled in a room where music emanated from.

 

Julia says, “There’s no other explanation, Barnabas, Judah lives. Judah lives!”

 

They defeated Judah while he was in the body of Gerard but his spirit might have someone survived. Throughout the night, Barnabas checks on his three friends: Quentin, Julia and Josette.  Barnabas thinks about Julia and his reliance on her, how she’s given him strength during some of the darkest times of the curse. She love him; he knew that now. He had known it for some time perhaps but chosen to ignore it, hoping she would also. He loved her but he was not in love with her. He could never love Julia the way she wanted.

 

Judah enters the house and claims to have Collinwood and will have the Old House destroyed soon. He never liked it and it never appealed to him the way Collinwood did. Judah seems to say he’s been in hell where the Master took care of his chosen one. He’s not the same as the warlock that they defeated 130 years ago. Judah claims to have taken care of Miranda permanently. Judah also claims since Stokes is dead, there is no knowledge on how to defeat him.

 

Judah asks Barnabas to join him and the Master, the master has been pleased with him. He taunts Barnabas about Barnabas himself wanting to bite Josette. Judah’s power influences Barnabas to follow what Judah wants and bites Josette!

 

 

Reverand Trask and Abigail accuse Vicki of being the witch while Barnabas and Maggie watch. Maggie, during the others’ confrontations, screams, “Oh, my dear God!”  She remembers it was Barnabas who kidnapped her and not Willie.

 

In 1971, at that moment, Josette died from blood loss.

 

Maggie dies from wounds on her neck. Abigail and Trask use this to force Riggs to get a rope to hang Vicki who says, “No! You don’t understand!”

 

Abilgail demands they hang her. Riggs has already fashioned a noose. “Now, you will feel the pain that you have caused so many others,” Trask smirked as he placed the rope around Vicki’s neck.

 

Chapter Seven

Julia is having a selfish thought, a foolish thought and Quentin wanted to ask her a question but didn’t. Maybe she was almost glad Josette died? They move the coffin from the mausoleum to the Old House. Then, they have breakfast at the diner Maggie used to work at.

 

Barnabas had never liked anyone seeing him step out of that thing (Frid, after a short time, refused to film any scene of him stepping out of a coffin!). Josette is in the coffin in the secret room behind the mantle in the library (in the drawing room?). Julia thinks she can cure Josette. Barnabas thinks the experiments are failing but Julia assures him that the tests she ran show he has progressed to and is at the same level, thus Judah Zachery caused the flare up in the vampire condition. According to the tests she ran, he is still on the road to recovery, though a long way to go.

 

Quentin gives Barnabas a moment with Josette; knowing how Julia feels.

 

From within the coffin, Josette pleads to be let out and she will make Barnabas strong again…by making him a vampire again. He has lost his vampire strength because the injections are succeeding.

 

Simon lets Darrell keep the change as a tip as he leaves the hotel/inn. Darrell thinks he had been wrong about Simon after all.

 

The funeral home: workers from the packing plant and associates of Roger, friends of Liz, and three or four teenagers, friends of Hallie and David. Julia had come to love these people and now they were dead.

 

Julia had treated Darrell Pate’s wife’s leg after she fell from a ladder. He is sorry to hear about Barnabas and Quentin’s family, “They were nice people.”

 

They question him about Simon Gatz aka Judah Zachery who they saw leaving the hotel.

 

Julia had several papers Elliot wrote about Judah after they returned from 1840. She has them at the Old House. Julia thinks her ideas about good and evil have changed since Davd Woodard called her about Maggie’s case those many years ago.

 

Julia tells a questioning Barnabas that Elliot had his doubts about Judah dying when Gerard was killed. Judah had lived so long as a disembodied spirit, he feared that Judah might have survived.

 

Judah was in Collinwood, thinking about how the judges families would die but how Amadeus Collins and his family would have a special fate. Judah told him that evil shall plague him and his family throughout their lives and all that take his name will fall victim to the powers of darkness no matter where or when they live. He said this to the man through his prison cell bars.

 

Once they were all dead and vengeance had been cleansed from his renewed body, he would prepare Collinsport to be the site of his own eventual return, a return that would bring all the horrors of hell on Earth.

 

Quentin cuts wood and wonders if his own attempts to raise the devil had been a failure or maybe he succeeded and never known about it.

 

Julia stakes Josette and laughs, under Judah’s control.

 

Judah wanted them to be converted to the Master’s side. Judah does a spell, burning cards, in order to burn down the Old House.

 

The trio escape and plan to go to Collinwood for a direct attack on Judah, whose body is still human.

 

They find the burned cards in the drawing room. Quentin asks where Judah could have gone. Barnabas’ answer is IDK.

 

Julia figures that Judah thinks he killed everyone of them in this time so now he’s gone back to destroy them in another time, too…the diary gives them the clue: 1928. Sept 13^th. They think Judah must have used the Staircase through time even though Desmond was supposed to have destroyed it. The trio rush to the east wing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER EIGHT

Simon Gatz, actually Judah Zachery (spelling?) uses the stairway through time to go to September 11, 1929. He waits for Jameson in his office and meets Ron Simpson who is waiting for Jameson, too. He will try to pull off a deal for his company with Collins Fishery. As he shakes hands with Judah, Judah thinks, “Why was there always some fool waiting to shake hands with every stranger who comes along?”  This shows Judah’s evil and negativity.

 

Judah gets Ron to leave with him for a drink. The receptionist will never see Ron again.

 

Jameson gives Simon aka Judah a room….at Collinwood. Mrs. Drew is the housekeeper and will show him to his room. Simon uses the info he stole from Ron. Drew feels this man was the perfect gentleman but his eyes were laughing at her. Cook here is a male and Mrs. Drew says he is good with food. Dinner is at 6:30.

 

 

Maureen Collins was born in NYC. She was last there eight or nine years ago. She met Jameson at a business gathering her father had given. They drove through Central Park as soft moonlight guided their way. She and Jameson try to talk things out. They’ve been distant to each other and so Jameson started seeing someone else. He explains they only had dinner a few times, nothing more. Maureen says that is not the official word from the village gossipers. He explains he thought that she did not love him anymore.

 

She asks him how he could ever think that. His answer: IDK. And, “I thought I failed you in some way and I needed someone to talk to…there was nothing more.”

 

Maureen knows that her life is not made complete by being his wife and mistress of Collinwood. She feels an emptiness. Jameson promises to come home before 5pm starting today. Judah was walking the children and they return from their daily walk. Maureen has grim thoughts about how Judah/Simon could kill four year old Roger with one blow. Cynthia’s boyfriend got sick and she cannot make it into the office tomorrow.

 

At the party, the phone rang and Maureen, ill, left to answer it. She heard terrible screams and raced back into the library. She finds them dead: Roger, Jameson and Liz though Dale avoids, for the first time ever, the gory scene and doesn’t really explain to us what Judah did to them. Marueen runs away but Judah searches for her. Maureen throws herself out of the French windows after opening them as she is cornered by a vengeful Judah. The cold, hard pavement rushed up to greet her.

 

NOTE: Nasty but almost not nasty enough. No details on the murders are given at all.

 

 

Chapter Nine

Barnabas, Quentin and Julia go to September 14^th, 1929 via the Staircase Through Time. Julia thought that in order for the staircase to be destroyed, it would have to be eliminated in every time period in which it ever appeared, a virtual impossibility. Using Stokes’ info, they focus on the time they want to go to and arrive.

 

Quentin finds Jameson reaching out to child Liz dead in a lot of blood. Roger had a blood streaked face and open eyes staring at the ceiling.

 

Quentin finds Judah in the drawing room calmly reading a book. Judah considers Quentin a worthy opponent. “You bastard!” Quentin yells at him. Judah says Quentin knows Judah’s father and will see him again long before Judah does. They fight and this leaves Quentin on the floor with a bump on the head. Judah flees when Barnabas and Julia arrive, part of his plan is to leave Quentin alive?

 

Barnabas thinks that Judah did not kill Quentin because he feared the stairway would vanish and Judah wants to use it to go to another time. HUH? Isn’t this Quentin the Quentin from 1897 and NOT from 1840? Didn’t the 1840 Quentin make the stairway through time?

 

Maybe Judah just thought this was the 1840 Quentin? OR maybe I missed something?

 

Barnabas finds the book Judah was reading that Quentin noticed. It was a family history up to this time and open to Kathleen Collins. She was the daughter of Quentin and Daphne Collins. Her birthday is October 10, 1842. The staircase will not appear for another couple of hours. The magical staircase took Judah to a long awaited reunion.

 

Chapter Ten

Judah poses as Nathan Beaty and pretending to want to be a new groundskeeper for Collinwood. He approaches Quentin. Judah claims to have worked three years as a blacksmith as the job would need to have someone with blacksmith skills. Quentin never liked to hire strangers but he does hire Nathan aka Judah. Daphne is pregnant and wants to name the baby David or Edward if a boy and Kathleen if the baby is a girl. Flora will come sit with her while Quentin has to go to the village for errands.  

 

Daphne feels uneasy.

 

17 year old Tad meets Nathan aka Judah and is going for a horse ride. It will be snowing soon. Tad will ride Lightning. Judah, his shirt off, is going to use the black horse to try to kill Tad in the stable stall, trampling Tad. He does not get his chance as Flora arrives and calls Tad out. Flora was asked by Quentin to stay at the main house until the baby is born. Flora is in the middle of a book about Judah Zachery. Carrie is with Daphne and Flora. It was a hot Autumn sun.

 

Desmond and Leticia love NY but will visit for some of the holidays. Judah overheard about the book and talks to himself, “It is I who will write the final chapter.”

 

Dusk settled over the countryside and a cool October breeze blew in form the ocean.

 

Judah goes to the playroom but the children were too old to use it now. He starts the music in the carousel.

 

Carrie Stokes goes to Tad and they go to the playroom. Judah has an axe but we never learn if he really used it on them or killed them some other way. He showed them the cool beauty of hell.

 

Flora finds Judah in Tad’s room as she looked for Carrie who suddenly grew rude and left her, quite unlike Carrie. She finds Judah in Tad’s room. As he tells her who he is and she realizes he is dead, he chokes her to death.

 

62 years old Dr. Phillip Matter checked on Daphne and he practiced medicine for half his life. He is pulled into the hallway by Judah who goes into Daphne’s bedroom to confront her only, and alone. He leaves the doctor in the hallway. Judah tells her, “We never did consummate our marriage, did we, Daphne?”

 

Daphne cries of horror and pain were not only for herself but for the dying child inside her.

 

NOTE: we don’t know what he did to her but it’s horrible that it is perhaps that he sexually abused her and/or raped her?

 

 

 

 

Chapter Eleven

 

Daphne had been bludgeoned. His eyes traveled down her mutilated, ravaged body. In lip rogue was written a message on the mirror, “Your turn in the lab. Judah.”

 

Judah beats up Quentin in the lab and tells him he might keep Tad and Carrie, dead, in the playroom to frighten away curious strangers. Barnabas and the other Quentin arrive with Julia, who goes to the first Quentin who was beaten on the floor but alive. Judah escapes onto the staircase through time. Daphne’s body was butchered. Quentin, the first one, will be okay.

 

The funerals were held at 2 in the afternoon so only Julia could attend. There is a Reverand Hankins. “Julia felt Quentin’s hand tighted…” seems to be a typo.

 

Quentin I gives Barnabas Amadeus Collins’ (Collins’s) diary and Judah’s journal. Flora found the journal at Rose Cottage and gave it to Quentin I with the diary.

 

Oddly, Quentin wants them to stay and not go after Judah. Huh?

 

Barnabas is amazed that Julia in 19^th century clothes seems as if she had always worn them. But then, there were so many things about her that amazed him.

 

Barnabas find out from the books that Judah placed a curse on Amadeus, that all his descendants would be hounded by the force of evil. “But it would explain why Collinwood had always been a site for the supernatural, something I’ve wondered about for years,” Julia commented.

 

“Then everything that ever happened at Collinwood dealing with the supernatural was because of Judah’s curse on Amadeus,” Quentin observed.

 

“It would seem so,” Barnabas said, Of course, there might have been an occasional occurrence by chance but since 1692 the majority has been because of Judah.”

 

NOTE: this seems to lift the blame from Angelique, Magda for the werewolf curse, Nicholas, Petofi and the Leviathans? Not sure I like that.

 

Quentin I tells them he stopped Desmond from destroying the staircase. Julia tells him that that may be best for the entire family. He will not remember them if the three : Barnabas, Julia and Quentin II are successful in their plan.

 

Elliot understood Quentin’s staircase in ways that Quentin didn’t even know about. Julia explains Stokes was a very dear friend and he would have liked him.

 

Barnabas and Quentin figure if someone could go back in time and cause some change in history another person not affected by the changes might not be affected by the changes and still remain in the present IF they just held onto the staircase but not actually went back in time themselves. The time displacement field would cover them and they would retain their memories of their lives before the changes caused by the person going up the staircase.

 

 

Chapter Twelve

 

Where they arrive there is no lighthouse and no village. It is 1661. The staircase appears in a field where the future site of Collinwood is. Collinwood has not been built yet. The staircase will reappear in about four hours.

 

Barnabas turns into a bat.

 

New Bedford. The bat dematerialized and Barnabas appears inside a three room shack. Julia’s failure to cure him of the curse –a curse Judah caused in a roundabout way (very as it was Angelique), would lead to Judah’s own death.

 

Barnabas also thought the filthy environment Judah lived in was what caused him to crave power and control over people.

 

Basically, the next bit is the reason I didn’t like this fic the first time I read it, despite all the other murders adding to m distaste for it. Barnabas, basically, murders a baby. He squeezed the baby’s throat quickly. Barnabas hated himself. Evil was not within the baby yet. He hadn’t turned his soul over to Satan yet. Barnabas remembered all the murders and killed the baby by choking him.

 

Mother of Judah, Constance Zachery came into the room. He handed the lifeless body of her son to her. “It was necessary,” was all he said to her.

 

Chapter Thirteen

The trio go back to Collinwood and leave it by one of the deserted sections of the house and looking back, they see lights in the rooms, proving they were successful. They also arrive at the Old House, which did not burn down.

 

They missed their arrival date by one day.

 

They drove back to Collinwood in the station wagon.

 

Roger is still at work, David and Hallie are studying, and Carolyn greets them. Julia lies to Carolyn about where she was; Carolyn wanted to go shopping with her. Julia makes up something about going to Ellsworth.

 

Later, Julia confirms Barnabas is cured. The curse is over. Barnabas gets a IDK how to thank her. Julia used three weeks to perfect the cure.

 

NOTE: If Judah were destroyed, wouldn’t Barnabas have NOT been a vampire OR would being on the staircase make him still a vampire because he was unaffected by the change? Is that what that awkward conversation was?

 

In any case, it seems Julia has cured Barnabas. In a rushed bit, Julia and Barnabas go to dinner but then he’s back at the Old House.

 

Barnabas and Quentin talk. Barnabas does not want to hurt Julia. The three of them go to Collinwood where the staircase is.

 

Barnabas had to say goodbye. She promises she will not regret setting him free from the curse. He never meant to hurt her and she knows that. “This isn’t my time, Julia. It never has been. I realize now that I have the means to go back to where I belong, to a very different life. Seeing Josette again only made me realize how very much I want that life…and her. With no Judah Zachery to give Angelique her powers, there is nothing to stop Josette and I from marrying as we were meant to.”   He wants Julia to save her words for someone who can give her the kind of rich life she deserves. “If  you would rather forget me, then stand clear of the staircase when I leave. It might be easier that way, Julia.”

 

“No, I want to remember.”

 

He always admired her strength. He kissed her. They cry. He says goodbye. Quentin tells him to be happy. “I will be, at last,” Barnabas says.

 

Quentin read the family history while they were at dinner. “It was a time paradox. Barnabas was doing as history demanded that he do.”

 

Julia pushed away from Quentin’s arms and walked down the corridor and looked out at the rising sun coming up over the ocean and the waves pounding against the shore.  

 

 

NOTE: Despite the baby murder which is disgusting, this almost works but doesn’t quite. I am not sure I understand about the time paradox and the family history. Did Barnabas leave because he really wanted to be with Josette or did he leave because he wanted to set time right? What?

 

This almost worked and I’m not sure it does at all.

 

Still, while inferior to Dale’s later serial of seven (eight? More?) books, it is worth reading but feels, compared to that, rushed. Some of the same premises occur: Judah for one but that serial has much, much more.