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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmHe had gotten Gage in his arms and was most of the way back to Mason Street when a dog began tobark somewhere. No—it didn’t just begin to bark. It began to howl, its gruff voice filling the street.Auggggh-R0000! Auggggh-R000000!He stood behind one of the trees, wondering what could possibly happen next, wondering what to donext. He stood there expecting lights to start going on all up and down the street.In fact only one light did go on, at the side of a house just opposite where Louis stood in the shadows. Amoment later a hoarse voice cried, “Shut up, Fred!”Auggggh-R000000! Fred responded.“Shut him up, Scanlon, or I’m calling the police!” someone yelled from the side of the street Louis wason, making him jump, making him realize just how false the illusion of emptiness and desertion was.There were people all around him, hundreds of eyes, and that dog was attacking sleep, his only friend.Goddam you, Fred, he thought. Oh, goddam you.Fred began another chorus; he got well into the Auggggh, but before he could do more than get startedon a good solid R000000, there was a hard whacking sound followed by a series of low whimpers andyips.Silence followed by the faint slam of a door. The light at the side of Fred’s house stayed on for amoment, then clicked off.Louis felt strongly inclined to stay in the shadows, to wait; surely it would be better to wait until theruckus had died down. But time was getting away from him.He crossed the street with his bundle and walked back down to the Civic, seeing no one at all. Fred heldhis peace. He clutched his bundle in one hand, got his keys, opened the hatchback.Gage would not fit.Louis tried the bundle vertically, then horizontally, then diagonally. The Civic’s back compartment wastoo small. He could have bent and crushed the bundle in there—Gage would not have minded—butLouis could simply not bring himself to do it.Come on, come on, come on, let’s get out of here, let’s not push it any further.But lie stood, nonplussed, out of ideas, the bundle containing his son’s corpse in his arms. Then he heardthe sound of an approaching car, and without really thinking at all, he took the bundle around to thepassenger side, opened the door, and slipped the bundle into the seat.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (283 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM