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"At sole to get the with me not to make a fool of myself -- Pops walked in and I reiterated the whole story for him

"He sat at the corner of the table listening with his dull eyes, and then said under his breath that he'd go back there to this island with me if I wanted, and when I said I did want this, that it was exactly what I wanted, he seemed surprised

"All the while, Goblin stood over by the sink listening to this conversation and looking from one to another of the crowd at the table as this or that one spoke Then he caht shoulder

"I said, 'Goblin, get away, I've got no time for you now ' And with a profound will I pushed at hione

"Then Patsy i fun of et away,' she repeated, 'and now you're telling us there's a old chair ¡¯

"I fired back at her that those details were of the least importance and then I positively demanded to see the sheriff and tell him what I had seen

"Pops said No, not until he'd gone out there withfor over a hundred years a day or touldn't matter now

" 'But so there, Pops,' I said 'Somebody who must know these chains are up there and erous situation here ¡¯

"Patsy snickered 'It's a da that you believe yourself, Quinn, because nobody else does You've been crazy since you were born ¡¯

"Aunt Queen did not look at her It struck me for the first time in my life that Aunt Queen didn't like Patsy any more than Pops did

" 'So as your drea not to bristle at her insults 'Jasmine told me you came home today because you had a dream ¡¯

" 'Oh, it can't compare to your story,' she said ironically and coldly, her blue eyes hard as glass 'I just woke up all scared for you There was so to hurt you, and Blackwood Manor was burning, and this group of people -- they had you and they were going to hurt you, and Virginia Lee was in the dreaet hi with her embroidery, and you know all the embroidery we still have that she did, and there she was in the drea, and she put it aside and toldnow But Blackwood Manor was on fire I woke up scared ¡¯

"I looked at Pops and Jas about Rebecca or the oil-lamp scare, I knew by their faces I looked up at Goblin, as standing in the corner toat Patsy, and he seehtful if not a little scared himself

"At this point, Aunt Queen called for the end of the Kitchen Co in, supper had to be prepared, Lolly and Big Ra for us to clear out, and Aunt Queen wanted to talk to me later in her room We'd eat supper in there, just the two of us

"Nobody was calling the sheriff until Pops had gone to the island with o lie down The heat was bad and he'd been working on the flower patches in the full sun; he didn't feel good at all