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"After that she raved about the coherence and style of my letter, which showed a vast iress correctly to Lynelle

"I followed Aunt Queen's directions regarding Goblin, and Lynelle did too If Goblin did so inappropriate, we lectured hie him until his weak and puny assaults came to a halt It worked

"But Goblin wanted more than ever to write, and he es on the co my left hand

"It gave , this takeover of ht hand, and so a strange rhyth the entire keyboard occurred Lynelle would watch this with a mixture of trepidation and fascination, but shediscovery

"And this astounding discovery was that she could co out on the co words On that day she wrote so on the order of:

" 'Our gallant and ever vigilant doppelg?nger h the cerebral organ of his much cherished and sometimes misused Tarquin Blackwood ¡¯

"And it was plainly obvious from Goblin's nearby duht Goblin, for all his early gains on es Lynelle typed outlike this:

" 'Coh once he absorbed all that you absorbed, may have reached the limits of his power to master fine distinctions, and this allows you a luxurious measure of freedom from his demands and intentions when it is desired ¡¯

"I took over the keyboard and, as Goblin watched suspiciously, being very solid and curious, I wrote that I comprehended all of this, and thathad the computer for very rapid communication of two kinds

"It could be used for Goblin's tapping out si er vocabulary than Goblin could grasp

"About this time in my adventures with Lynelle, she tried to explain these mechanisms to Patsy but met with a flat-out 'You're crazier than Quinn is, Lynelle; both of you ought to be locked up ' And when Lynelle approached Pops and Sweetheart they appeared not to understand the significance of Goblin not knowing everything that was in my mind

"Because that was it: Goblin didn't necessarily read hts! When I look back on it now it see discovery, but one that I should havetime before

"As for Pops and Sweetheart, I think they caught on that Lynelle believed in Goblin, which ithheld fros that this 'side of h-quality teacher like Lynelle ought to agree Pops got tough about it and Sweetheart started to cry

"I took ti her dry her tears on her apron and assuring her that I was not insane

"The moment is deeply inscribed in my memory because Sweetheart, as always pure kindness, said softly towith Patsy' and she didn't want for things to go badly for me