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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmLazarus, come forth.For the first time in months he remembered the dream he had had after Pascow’s death—the dream, andthen waking up to find his feet dirty and the foot of the bed caked with pine needles and muck.The hairs at the nape of his neck stirred.“Just dreams,” he said to Ellie, and his voice sounded, to his ears at least, perfectly normal. “They’llpass.”“I wish you were coming with us,” she said, “or that we were staying here. Can we stay, Daddy? Please?I don’t want to go to Grandma and Grandda’s . . . I just want to go back to school. Okay?”“Just for a little while, Ellie,” he said. “I’ve got”—he swallowed—“a few things to do here, and then I’ll be with you. We can decide what to do next.”He expected an argument, perhaps even an Ellie-style tantrum. He might even have welcomed it—aknown quantity, as that look was not. But there was only that pallid, disquieting silence which seemedso deep. He could have asked her more but found he didn’t dare; she had already told him more than heperhaps wanted to hear.Shortly after he and Ellie returned to the boarding lounge, the flight was called. Boarding passes wereproduced, and the four of them got in line. Louis embraced his wife and kissed her hard.She clung to him for a moment and then let him go so he could pick Ellie up and buss her cheek.Ellie gazed at him solemnly with her sibyl’s eyes. “I don’t want to go,” she said again but so low oniyLouis could really hear over the shuffle and murmur of the boarding passengers. “I don’t want Mommyto go either.”“Ellie, come on,” Louis said. “You’ll be fine.”“I’ll be fine,” she said, “but what about you? Daddy, what about you?”The line had begun to move now. People were walking down the jetway to the 727. Rachel pulledEllie’s hand and for a moment she resisted, holding up the line, her eyes fixed on her father—and Louisfound himself remembering her impatience last time, her cries of come on—come on—come on.“Daddy?”file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (246 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM