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deto Aunt Queen, and I read the letter out loud to hi Aunt Queen thank you for her recent offer that Lynelle could always use her bedrooe clothes or spend the night

"When I got to the bottorabbed my left hand as always and typed without spaces, 'IamGoblinandQuinnisGoblinandGoblinisQuinnandweloveAuntQueen ' He stopped He dissolved

"I kneithout question that he'd exhausted hi off the coht was mine

"Another ti to a Tchaikovsky waltz -- really cutting up in the parlor after all the guests were gone to bed -- Goblin socked me in the stomach, which took the breath out of me, and then dissolved, not as if he wanted to but as if he had to -- gone in a puff, leavingand sick

"Lynelle was quite astonished by this, but she never doubted me when I told her Goblin had done it, and then ere sitting, talking in our intimate way, adult to adult, she confessed to me that she had several tinore it the first couple of times, but now she was certain he did it

" 'This is a strong ghost you have,' she said And no sooner had she spoken those words than the gasolier up above us began to ht lass cups, but it was dahed Then she uttered a startled sound She said she'd been pinched on her right arh he wasn't visible tohim that she was as fond of him as of me

"I saw Goblin -- now fourteen, you understand, because I was fourteen -- standing by the bedroo proudly at me I realized keenly that his face had more definition to it than it used to have in the past, principally because that slightly contemptuous expression was new He was quick to dematerialize, and I was confirmed in my earlier opinion that when he affected y to 'appear' for very long

"But he was getting stronger, no doubt of it

"I vowed at once 'to kill' Goblin for hurting Lynelle, and after Lynelle took off in her shining Mazda, I wrote to Aunt Queen that Goblin was doing the 'unthinkable' by hurting other people I told her about the sharp punch in the stoet it in two or three days though she was in India at the time

And to keep Goblin amused that weekend I read aloud to hiy that had been a gift from Aunt Queen

"Aunt Queen called as soon as she'd received my letter and she told me that I must control Goblin, that Inot to look at him or talk to him, and that I had to make these declarations stick

" 'You mean to tell me, Aunt Queen, you finally believe in him?' I asked

" 'Quinn, I'ht now,' she answered 'I can't argue with you about what Goblin is What I' is you have to contain him, whether he's real and separate, or simply a part of you ¡¯

"I agreed with her and I told her I kne to control hi more than I knew

"Meanwhile I was to keep her apprised of things