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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm“Can I talk to Daddy?” It was Ellie in the background.“Louis? Ellie’s here.”“Okay, put her on.”He talked to Ellie for almost five minutes. She prattled on about the doll Grandma had gotten her, aboutthe trip she and Grandda had taken to the stockyards (“Boy, do they stink, Daddy,” Ellie said, and Louisthought, Your grandda’s no rose, either, sweetie), about how she had helped make bread, and about howGage had gotten away from Rachel while she was changing him. Gage had run down the hallway andpooped right in the doorway leading into Grandda’s study (Atta boy, Gage! Louis thought, a big grinspreading over his face).He actually thought he was going to get away—at least for this morning—and was getting ready to askEllie for her mother again so he could say goodbye to her when Ellie asked, “How’s Church, Daddy?Does he miss me?”The grin faded from Louis’s mouth, but he answered readily. and with the perfect note of offhandedcasualness: “He’s fine, I guess. I gave him the leftover beef stew last night and then put him out.Haven’t seen him this morning, but I just woke up.”Oh boy, you would have made a great murderer—cool as a cucumber. Dr. Creed, when did you last seethe deceased? He came in for supper. Had a plate of beef stew, in fact. I haven’t seen him since then.“Well, give him a kiss for me.”“Yuck, kiss your own cat,” Louis said, and Ellie giggled.“You want to talk to Mommy again, Daddy?”“Sure. Put her on.”Then it was over. He talked to Rachel for another couple of minutes; the subject of Church was nottouched upon. He and his wife exchanged love-you’s, and Louis hung up.“That’s that,” he said to the empty, sunny room, and maybe the worst thing about it was that he didn’tfeel bad, didn’t feel guilty at all.24Steve Masterton called around nine-thirty and asked if Louis would like to come up to the university andfile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (114 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM
file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmplay some racket ball—the place was deserted, he said gleefully, and they could play the whole goddam day if they wanted to.Louis could understand the glee—when the university was in session, the waiting list for a racket ballcourt was sometimes two days long—but he declined all the same, telling Steve he wanted to work on anarticle he was writing for The Magazine of College Medicine.“You sure?” Steve asked. “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy, you know.”“Check me later,” Louis said. “Maybe I’ll be up for it.”Steve said he would and hung up. Louis had told only a half-lie this time; he did plan to work on hisarticle, which concerned itself with treating contagious ailments such as chicken-pox and mononucleosisin the infirmary environment, but the main reason he had turned down Steve’s offer was that he was amass of aches and pains. He had discovered this as soon as he finished talking to Rachel and went intothe bathroom to brush his teeth. His back muscles creaked and groaned, his shoulders were sore fromlugging the cat in that damned garbage bag, and the hamstringsin back of his knees felt like guitar strings tuned three octaves past their normal pitch. Christ, he thought,and you had the stupid idea you were in some kind of shape. He would have looked cute trying to playracket ball with Steve, lumbering around like an arthritic old man.And speaking of old men, he hadn’t made that hike into the woods the night before by himself; he hadgone with a guy who was closing in on eighty-five. He wondered if Jud was hurting as badly as he wasthis morning.He spent an hour and a half working on his article, but it did not march very well. The emptiness and thesilence began to get on his nerves, and at last he stacked his yellow legal pads and the offprints he hadordered from Johns Hopkins on the shelf above his typewriter, put on his parka, and crossed the road.Jud and Norma weren’t there, but there was an envelope tacked to the porch door with his name writtenacross the front of it. He took it down and opened the flap with his thumb.Louis,The good wife and me are off to Bucksport to do some shopping and to look at a welsh dresser at theEmporium Galorium that Norma’s had her eye on for about a hundred years, it seems like. Probablywe’ll have a spot of lunch at McLeod’s while we’re there and come back in the late afternoon. Come onover for a beer or two tonight, if you want.Your family is your family. I don’t want to be no “buttinsky,” but if Ellie were my daughter, I wouldn’tfile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (115 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM
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