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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm“Was it his idea that you should go out there?”“Well. . . yes. Jud, what’s wrong? Something is wrong, isn’t it? And you know something about it.”“Maybe you ought to tell me the child’s dream,” Jud said after a long pause. “I wish you would.”After he and Rachel were done talking, Jud put on his light coat—the day had clouded up and the wind had begun to blow—and crossed the road to Louis’s house,pausing on his side of the road to look carefully for trucks before crossing. It was the trucks that hadbeen the cause of all this. The damned trucks.Except it wasn’t.46He could feel the Pet Sematary pulling at him—and something beyond. Where once its voice had been akind of seductive lullabye, the voice of possible comfort and a dreamy sort of power, it was now lowerand more than ominous—it was threatening and grim. Stay out of this, you.But he would not stay out of it. His responsibility went back too far.He saw that Louis’s Honda Civic was gone from the garage. There was only the big Ford wagon,looking dusty and unused. He tried the back door of the house and found it open.“Louis?” he called, knowing that Louis was not going to answer, but needing to cut across the heavysilence of this house somehow. Oh, getting old was starting to be a pain in the ass—his limbs felt heavyand clumsy most of the time, his back was a misery to him after a mere two hours in the garden, and itfelt as if there was a screw auger planted in his left hip.He began to go through the house methodically, looking for the signs he had to look for—world’s oldesthousebreaker, he thought without much humor and went right on looking. He found none of the thingsthat would have seriously upset him:boxes of toys held back from the Salvation Army, clothes for a small boy put aside behind a door or inthe closet or under a bedfile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (258 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM