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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmResurrection. . . ah, there’s a word(that you should put right the fuck out of your mind and you know it).When the funeral director said “Amen,” Louis took Rachel’s arm and guided her away. Rachelmurmured some protest—she wanted to stay a bit longer, please, Louis—but Louis was firm. Theyapproached the cars. He saw the funeral director taking umbrellas with the home’s name discreetlyprinted on the handles from the mourners who passed and handing them to an assistant. The assistant putthem in an umbrella stand which looked surreal, standing there on the dewy turf. He held Rachel’s armwith his right hand and Ellie’s white-gloved hand with his left. Ellie was wearing the same dress she hadworn to Norma Crandall’s funeral.Jud came over as Louis handed his ladies into the car. Jud also looked as if he’d had a hard night.“You okay, Louis?”Louis nodded.Jud bent to look into the car. “How are you, Rachel?” he asked.“I’m all right, Jud,” she whispered.Jud touched her shoulder gently and then looked at Ellie. How about you, dear one?"“I’m fine,” Ellie said and produced a hideous smile of sharklike proportions to show him how fine shewas.“What’s that picture you got there?”For a moment Louis thought she would hold it, refuse to show him, and then with a painful shyness shepassed it to Jud. He held it in his big fingers, fingers that were so splayed and somehow clumsy-looking,fingers that looked fit mostly for grappling with the transmissions of big road machines or makingcouplings on the B & M Line—but they were also the fingers that had pulled a bee stinger from Gage’sneck with all the offhand skill of a magician. . . or a surgeon.“Why, that’s real nice,” Jud said. “You pullin him on a sled. Bet he liked that, didn’t he, Ellie?”Beginning to weep, Ellie nodded.Rachel began to say something, but Louis squeezed her arm— be still awhile.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (224 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM