Page 75 (1/2)

"Upstairs, I found Big Ra chair by the cold fireplace with her rosary beads in her hand Her full white hair was already braided She was in her best rose-flowered flannel nightgown She gave e

"After we said our night prayers and I let it be knoas too da spoon fashion and I was reht of the broken moon

"Then I heard the coht emanated from the monitor

"What a nuisance, I thought 'Goblin, why do you do these things?' I e sound It was the clicking of the computer keys

"I shot up out of bed and came into this parlor and stared at the coe:

QUINN, DANGER EVERYWHERE; I'M AFRAID

"I was stultified Never had he done this before Turn it on and off, yes, but to write on it without my hand? I sat down at the computer and I wrote out the words as I recited them aloud:

" 'Goblin, I love you I couldn't have coer ¡¯

"I moved ly ical depression of the keys as he wrote out:

I SEE IT NEAR AND FAR GO AWAY I LOVE YOU DON'T LOVE REBECCA

"I began to whisper my response to him, that is, to talk aloud to him as I had always done -- that he needn't worry -- when the keys started firing again, and I saw the writing on the screen:

THROUGH THE COMPUTER, QUINN I AM STRONG IN THE ELECTRICITY, NOT STRONG NOW IN ANY OTHER WAY TOO TIRED FROM SWAMP QUINN, GO

"This all but du of him, and so I hammered out:

" 'Goblin, as the stranger? Who were the bodies?¡¯

" 'I don't know,' came his answers 'The bodies were dead ¡¯