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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm“Yes, but I can’t remember . . . Mommy, you’re hurrrrting me—”Rachel looked down and saw that her free hand was clamped around Ellie’s lower forearm like amanacle.“Was it Victor?”Ellie drew sharp breath. “Yes, Victor! He said his name was Victor! Mommy, did you dream of himtoo?”“Not Paxcow,” Rachel said. “Pascow.”“That’s what I said. Paxcow.”“Rachel, what’s wrong?” Dory said. She took Rachel’s free hand and winced at its chill. “And what’swrong with Eileen?”“It’s not Eileen,” Rachel said. “It’s Louis, I think. Something iswrong with Louis. Or something is going to be wrong. Sit with Ellie, Mom. I want to call home.”She got up and crossed to the telephones, digging in her purse for a quarter. She made the call collect,but there was no one to accept the charges. The phone simply rang.“Will you try your call later?” the operator asked her.“Yes,” Rachel said and hung up.She stood there, staring at the phone.He said that he was sent to warn but that he couldn’t interfere. He said that he was. . . that he was nearDaddy because they were together when his soul was dis—dis—I can’t remember!“Discorporated,” Rachel whispered. Her fingers dug at the fabric of her handbag. “Oh my God, was thatthe word?”She tried to catch at her thoughts, to arrange them. Was something going on here, something beyondtheir natural upset at Gage’s death and this queer cross-country trip that was so much like flight? Howmuch had Ellie known about the young man who had died on Louis’s first day at work?file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (255 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM