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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmbut it never came to much. Losing the post was enough punishment for him anyway; his whole life wasplaying the big cheese.“But there was good in those men too. That’s what I mean; that’s what folks always find it so hard toremember. It was Hannibal got the fund started for the Eastern General Hospital, right before the war.Alan Purinton was one of the most generous, open-handed men I ever knew. And old George Andersononly wanted to go on running the post office forever.“It was only the bad it wanted to talk about though. It was only the bad it wanted us to rememberbecause it was bad . . and because it knew we meant danger for it. The Timmy Baterman that went off tofight the war was a nice, ordinary kid, Louis,maybe a little dull but goodhearted. The thing we saw that night, lookin up into that red sun. . . that wasa monster. Maybe it was a zombie or a dybbuk or a demon. Maybe there’s no name for such a thing asthat, but the Micmacs would have known what it was, name or no.”“What?” Louis said numbly.“Something that had been touched by the Wendigo,” Jud said evenly. He took a deep breath, held it for amoment, let it out, and looked at his watch.“Welladay. The hour’s late, Louis. I’ve talked nine times as much as I meant to.”“I doubt that,” Louis said. “You’ve been very eloquent. Tell me how it came out.”“There was a fire at the Baterman place two nights later,” Jud said. “The house burned flat. AlanPurinton said there was no doubt about the fire being set. Range oil had been splashed from one end ofthat little house to the other. You could smell the reek of it for three days after the fire was out.”“So they both burned up.”“Oh, ayuh, they burned. But they was dead beforehand. Timmy was shot twice in the chest with a pistolBill Baterman kept handy, an old Colt’s. They found it in Bill’s hand. What he’d done, or so it lookedlike, was to kill his boy, lay him on the bed, and then spill out that range oil. Then he sat down in hiseasy chair by the radio, flicked a match, and ate the barrel of that Colt.45.”“Jesus,” Louis said.“They were pretty well charred, but the county medical examiner said it looked to him like Timmyfile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (218 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.htmBaterman had been dead two or three weeks.”Silence, ticking out.Jud got up. “I wasn’t exaggerating when I said I might have killed your boy, Louis, or had a hand in it.The Micmacs knew that place, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they made it what it was. The Micmacsweren’t always here. They came maybe from Canada, maybe from Russia, maybe from Asia way backin the beginning. They stayed here in Maine for a thousand years, or maybe it was two thousand—it’shard to tell, because they did not leave their mark deep on the land. And now they are gone again. . same way we’ll be gone, someday, although I guess our markwill go deeper, for better or worse. But the place will stay no matter who’s here, Louis. It isn’t as thoughsomeone owned it and could take its secret when they moved on. It’s an evil, curdled place, and I had nobusiness taking you up there to bury that cat. I know that now. It has a power you’ll beware of if youknow what’s good for your family and what’s good for you. I wasn’t strong enough to fight it. Yousaved Norma’s life, and I wanted to do something for you, and that place turned my good wish to itsown evil purpose. It has a power. . . and I think that power goes through phases, same as the moon. It’sbeen full of power before, and I’m ascared it’s coming around to full again. I’m ascared it used me to getat you through your son. Do you see, Louis, what I’m getting at?” His eyes pleaded with Louis.“You’re saying the place knew Gage was going to die, I think,” Louis said.“No, I am saying the place might have made Gage die because I introduced you to the power in theplace. I am saying I may have murdered your son with good intentions, Louis.”“I don’t believe it,” Louis said at last, shakily. Didn’t; wouldn’t. Couldn’t.He held Jud’s hand tightly. “We’re burying Gage tomorrow. In Bangor. And in Bangor he will stay. Idon’t plan to go up there to the Pet Sematary or beyond it ever again.”“Promise me!” Jud said harshly. “Promise.”“I promise,” Louis said.But in the back of his mind, contemplation remained—a dancing flicker of promise that would not quitego away.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (219 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM
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