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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmLouis kneeled. The wind blew through his hair, tumbling it. The sky was almost entirely dark now. Itraced with clouds.No one has shone a light in my face and asked me what I’m doing here. No watchdog has barked. Thegate was unlocked. The days of the Resurrection Men are past. If I came up here with a pick and a shovel— He came back to himself with a jerk. He was only playing a dangerous mind game with himself if hepretended that Pleasant-view stood unwatched during the night hours. Suppose he was discovered bellydeepin his son’s new grave by the caretaker or the watchman? It might not get into the papers, but thenagain it might. He might be charged with a crime. What crime? Grave robbing? Unlikely. Maliciousmischief or vandalism would be more likely. And in the paper or out of it, the word would get around.People would talk; it was a story too juicy not to be told:Local doctor is discovered digging up his two-year-old son, recently killed in a tragic road accident. Hewould lose his job. Even if not, Rachel would be chilled by the wind of such tales, and Ellie might beharried by them at school until her life was a misery of chanting children. There might be thehumiliation of a sanity test in exchange for dropping charges.But I could bring Gage back to life! Gage could live again!Did he really, actually believe that?The fact was that he did. He had told himself time and time again, both before Gage’s death and after it,that Church had not really been dead, only stunned. That Church had dug his way out and come home. Akiddie story with gruesome undertones—Winnie the Poe. Master unwittingly piles a cairn of stones over a living animal. Faithful beast digs itselfout and comes home. Fine. Except it was not true. Church had been dead. The Micmac burying groundhad brought it back to life.He sat by Gage’s grave, trying to place all the known components in an order as rational and logical asthis dark magic would allow.Timmy Baterman, now. First, did he believe the story? And second, did it make a difference?In spite of its convenience, he believed most of it. It was undeniable that if a place like the Micmacburying ground existed (as it did) and if people knew of it (as a few of the older Ludlowites did), thensooner or later someone would try the experiment. Human nature as Louis understood it made it moredifficult to believe that it had stopped at a few pets and valuable breed animals.All right, then—did he also believe that Timmy Baterman had been transformed into some sort of allknowingdaemon?file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (229 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM