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"She sat down on the last step and began to cry piteously

" 'You can't co for you God's waiting for you I believe in the Light ¡¯

"The living rooain, and I could hear the cadence of the Rosary rising like a tide, the Hail Mary, Full of Grace, and then I saw Virginia Lee sit up froain, her hands clasped, and at once she raceful ballet step to the floor, her skirts billowing, and she ca through the front door of the house, the two ghosts, Virginia Lee and Rebecca, and I heard Virginia Lee cry out, 'You co ht!¡¯

"Rebecca screamed A life for my life A death for my death

"All was silence I sat on the steps in the drea I could wake up and be back upstairs in bed where I belonged, but I couldn't

"A life forI'd done had satisfied her It wasn't enough

"Soinia Lee, very lively and pretty, though she wore her funeral blue dress

" 'Get away from this place, Tarquin,' she said Her voice had such tender resonance 'Go on, Tarquin, leave this place There is an evil here That evil wants you ¡¯

"I woke, sitting up, covered with sweat, staring forward I saw Goblin in the corner near the co me

"Mona slept soundly beside me

"I got into the shower and when I saw Goblin's shadow outside the glass I finished up and dried off and dressed quickly He stood behindat me in the mirror over my shoulder His expression was not as mean as it had been before, and I prayed he couldn't sense my apprehension He didn't seem as solid here, even with the rateful for that

" 'You love Mona, too?' I asked as if I meant it

" 'Mona is good Mona is strong,' he said 'But Mona will hurt you ¡¯

" 'I know,' I said 'You hurt s We have to love each other ¡¯

" 'You want to be with Mona alone,' he said