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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmhe thought he was going to throw up.“Louis!”He pushed the blankets back and stumbled to the stairs. Faint light spilled from their bedroom. Rachelwas standing at the head of the stairs in her nightgown.“Louis, he’s vomiting again. . . choking on ft. . . I’m scared.”“I’m here,” he said and came up to her, thinking: It got in. Somehow it got in. From the cellar, probably.Maybe there’s a broken cellar window. In fact there must be a broken window down there. I’ll check ittomorrow when 1 get home. Hell, before I go to work. I’ll— Gage stopped crying and began to make anugly, gargling choking sound.“Louis!” Rachel screamed.Louis moved fast. Gage was on his side and vomit was trickling out of his mouth onto an old towelRachel had spread beside him. He was vomiting, yes, but not enough. Most of it was inside, and Gagewas blushing with the onset of asphyxiation.Louis grabbed the boy under the arms, aware in a distant way of how hot his son’s armpits were underthe Dr. Denton suit, and put him up on his shoulder as if to burp him. Then Louis snapped himselfbackward, jerking Cage with him. Gage’s neck whip-lashed. He uttered a loud bark that was not quite abelch, and an amazing flag of almost solid vomit flew from his mouth and spattered on the floor and thedresser. Cage began to cry again, asolid, bawling sound that was music to Louis’s ears. To cry like that you had to be getting an unlimitedsupply of oxygen.Rachel’s knees buckled and she collapsed onto the bed, head supported in her hands. She was shakingviolently. “He almost died, didn’t he, Louis? He almost ch-ch-ch---oh my God—”Louis walked around the room with his son in his arms. Gage’s cries were tapering off to whimperings;he was already almost asleep again.“The chances are fifty to one he would have cleared it himself, Rachel. I just gave him a hand.”“But he was close,” she said. She looked up at him, and her white-ringed eyes were stunned andunbelieving. “Louis, he was so close.”Suddenly he remembered her shouting at him in the sunny kitchen: He’s not going to die, no one isfile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (143 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM