As the first pale promise of sunrise touched the waters of Little Raccoon, Richard rode his black horse down the lane and out through the grove to the turnpike... Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for The Final Episode Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) The End... This has been The Dark Fantastic Written by Margaret Echard, Directed, produced and narrated by Valerie Moss and a collection of voice over artists from around the world...thanks for listening.

Judith thought, "He must be stopped. Else he'll leave tonight" Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 27 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) James Seabrook (Dr. Caxton) Garret Odle (Will Tomlinson) Sam Sprunger (Jessie Moffat)

There was a first and second supper table at Timberley that evening, for among the people who had come out from Woodridge were a number to whom the Tomlinson hospitality was a matter of course. John Barclay, Dr. Caxton, Doc Baird, and the loquacious war veteran, Mitch Rucker, were among those who put their legs under the long table that night. Mitch declared he had not seen anything since Bull Run to equal the day's excitement. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 26 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London Moss (Thorne aka Cricket) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) James Seabrook (Dr. Caxton) Garret Odle (Will Tomlinson) Ava Eames (Pennsylvania Women) Jack Hewson (Mitch Rucker) Sam Sprunger (Jessie Moffat) Matt Senn (Doc Baird) Rod Lechelt (John Barclay)

The torment of the bricks began again the next day. Judith was seated at her dressing table in nightgown and wrapper, when she heard the unmistakable thud in the room below. She had slept late that morning. The rest of the family were already at breakfast. She hurried downstairs to investigate, and as she passed the open dining-room door she called excitedly, "It's begun again," and sped down the hall to the south bedroom to view the brick. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 25 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London Moss (Thorne aka Cricket) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) James Seabrook (Dr. Caxton) Garret Odle (Will Tomlinson) Ava Eames (Pennsylvania Women) Jack Hewson (Pennsylvania Man)

Judith's screams brought Richard's mother hurrying down the hall. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 24 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London Moss (Thorne aka Cricket) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) James Seabrook (Dr. Caxton)

It was several days later that Richard came upon Thorne dragging a small hair trunk out of the back hall closet. He had been out in the fields all day and his boots were mired with spring mud, so that he entered the house through the kitchen and went straight to the back closet for dry shoes. There he found Thorne shoving and pushing at the trunk. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 23 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London Moss (Thorne aka Cricket) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) Angele Black (Marth Shook)

From an upstairs window Judith watched Otis Huse drive away and knew that her hope in the quarter had failed. He had spent a night at Timberley; he had witnessed her discomfiture, but he had not come to her support. If this shrewd, not disinterested attorney had failed to see anything on which to base an accusation of Thorne, there was nothing left to Judith but her fear. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 22 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London Moss (Thorne aka Cricket) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) Peggy Davis (Millie) James Seabrook (Dr. Caxton) Matt Senn (Doc Baird)

Prayers were over. The fire was low, the backlog covered with ashes for the night. Candles brought from the kitchen waited in a row upon the table to light the way to bedrooms. In the corner near the alcove a feminine caucus was being held. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 21 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London Moss (Thorne aka Cricket) Ava Eames (Cousin Lutie) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) Jack Rhysider (Otis Huse) Joseph Muranyi Jr. (Henry Shook) David Boisvert (Lucious Goff)

The Square in Woodridge was a sea of mud. Wagons and buggies, mired to the hub, crept sluggishly. Horses and mules, flat-eared and streaming, stood resignedly at hitching posts. The host spell had broken with an equinoctial storm. It had rained for a week. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 20 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London Moss (Thorne aka Cricket) Sam Sprunger (Jesse Moffat) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) Garret Odle (Will Tomlinson) Jack Rhysider (Otis Huse) Joseph Muranyi Jr. (Henry Shook) David Boisvert (Lucious Goff) Raine Cruz (Abagail)

It was the hottest summer in years: the greatest corn weather, the most bountiful harvest since the war. It seemed to Judith that she never saw her husband any more. He was out of doors from daybreak till dark and at night he was asleep, from sheer healthy exhaustion, as soon as he touched the bed. She grew to hate the summer before it was over. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 19 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London Moss (Thorne aka Cricket) Sam Sprunger (Jesse Moffat)