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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm“How late did you think it was?” Jud asked.“Later than that,” Louis said.“I’ll see you tomorrow, Louis,” Jud said and began to move away.He turned toward Louis, mildly questioning.“Jud, what did we do tonight?”“Why, we buried your daughter’s cat.”“Is that all we did?”“Nothing but that,” Jud said. “You’re a good man, Louis, but you ask too many questions. Sometimespeople have to do things that just seem right. That seem right in their hearts, I mean. And if they dothose things and then end up not feeling right, full of questions and sort of like they got indigestion, onlyinside their heads instead of in their guts, they think they made a mistake. Do you know what I mean?”“Yes,” touis said, thinking that Jud must have been reading his mind as the two of them walked downhillthrough the field and toward the house lights.“What they don’t think is that maybe they should be questioning those feelings of doubt before theyquestion their own hearts,” Jud said, looking at him closely. “What do you think, Louis?”“I think,” Louis said slowly, “that you might be right.”“And the things that are in a man’s heart—it don’t do him much good to talk about those things, does it?”“Well—”“No,” Jud said, as if Louis had simply agreed. “It don’t.” And in his calm voice that was so sure and soimplacable, in that voice which somehow put the chill through Louis, he said: “They are secret things.Women are supposed to be the ones good at keeping secrets, and I guess they do keep a few, but anywoman who knows anything at all would tell you she’s never really seen intoany man’s heart. The soil of a man’s heart is stonier, Louis—like the soil up there in the old Micmacburying ground. Bedrock’s close. A man grows what he can. . . and he tends it.”Jud— “Don’t question, Louis. Accept what’s done and follow your heart.”file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (109 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM