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"I helped Patsy load all her things in the van so Goblin would know Ithat she was never co to stay in the big house because she ran out of o but home

"That night, as soon as Patsy was safely away, I demanded of Goblin, 'What did you do? You alot no answer fro, and when I went back upstairs to rabbed my hand and typed out,

" 'Patsy hurt you I don't like Patsy ¡¯

" 'That doesn'tthe words aloud

"At once my left hand was snatched up with extraordinary force

" 'I made Patsy stop,' he answered

" 'You almost killed Patsy!' I countered 'Don't ever hurt anyone It's not fun ¡¯

" 'No fun,' he wrote 'She stopped hurting you ¡¯

" 'If you hurt other people,' I answered, 'I won't love you ¡¯

"There came a silence and a chill in the room, and then by his power the computer was tur

ned off Then ca war of the pleasure this embrace produced in me, and a sudden fear that it would beco that fear before

"Patsy had called ht Maybe I was steered in that direction Maybe Goblin knew Goblin and ether Fear stole over me It seemed like mortal sin

" 'Don't be sad, Goblin,' I whispered 'There's too much sadness as it is, at home Go off, now, Goblin Go off, and let me think by myself ¡¯

"In the weeks that followed, Patsy never looked at me in quite a fa the event on the staircase, so I couldn't ask her what she had felt

"Meanti house she was vo about the kitchen, saying that all the food disgusted her, and Pops, driven away fro hours in the shed