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"I went into the bathroos I washed my hands Then I ca Raarnet rosary froift I started to say it

"But I couldn't er What if he cae was destroyed, ould he do? I pictured h

im, those fiery dark eyes How perfectly furious he had been, pivoting wild as a dervish as the broken glass assaulted him

"And if I went to sleep, I'd dream of Rebecca "

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"GOBLIN WAS on ti with the panel of psychiatrists He was ain, and the look of contempt and boredom had vanished from his face He put his arm around me and I could see that he was afraid of as to happen with the panel

"As we entered the room -- Goblin, me and Aunt Queen -- I felt for one moment: What could it be like if I were to trust these people? If I were really to make an appeal to them? Could they help nosis but with an active assault on Rebecca and Goblin and on the panic that had driven e? Could they be a party to ht the trespasser?

"My own sheer disloyalty to Goblin, born out of a brand-new fear, putable to read my mind, for all his new attainments, he had no clue of it

"I quietly demanded that a chair be placed beside me for Goblin to sit, and I laid lanced at his profile and found his eyes chilly as he looked at the panel I told the panel that, though they couldn't see hi at the said by us

"As for the panel, I was soon certain that it was i exceptional froely an uneventful half hour

"Two of the doctors were young, sterile and heartless ure, and the one woer to please, and the chair heavyset doctor who see from terminal depression

"Winn Mayfair was there and he studiedface

"I told the except the most recent and private details of my erotic relationship with Goblin Of his heroics IWhen I described my love affair with Rebecca and the burial of her ree and the attendance of the FBI, they looked to Aunt Queen, who confirmed what she could readily

" 'You do realize,' said the heavyset head doctor, 'that no fingerprints whatsoever were found in the bathroo on the walls, the lavatory or on the pieces of glass that could be examined ¡¯