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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmforging right now. Eventually he would tell her. But not over the phone.“Rachel, how come you to be on the turnpike instead of in a plane?”She explained how she had missed her connecting flight at Boston. “I got an Avis car, but I’m notmaking the time I thought I would. I got a little bit lost corning from Logan to the turnpike, and I’veonly got into Maine. I don’t think I can get there until dawn. But Jud. . . please. Please tell me what’shappening. I’m so scared, and I don’t even know why.”“Rachel, listen to me,” Jud said, “you drive on up to Portland and lay over, do you hear me? Check intoa motel there and get some—”“Jud, I can’t do th—.”“—and get some sleep. Feel no fret, Rachel. Something may be happening here tonight, or somethingmay not. If something is—if it’s what I think—then you wouldn’t want to be here anyway. I can takecare of it, I think. I better be able to take care of it because what’s happening is my fault. If nothing’shappening, then you get here this afternoon, and that will be fine. I imagine Louis will be real glad to seeyou.”“I couldn’t sleep tonight, Jud.”“Yes,” he said, reflecting that he had believed the same thing— hell, Peter had probably believed thesame thing on the night Jesus had been taken into custody. Sleeping on sentry duty. “Yes, you can.Rachel, if you doze off behind the wheel of that damn rent-a-car and go off the road and get yourselfkilled, what’s going to happen to Louis then? And Ellie?”“Tell me what’s going on! If you tell me that, Jud, maybe I’ll take your advice. But I have to know!”“When you get to Ludlow, I want you to come here,” Jud said. “Not over to your house. Come here first.I’ll tell you everything I know, Rachel. And I am watching for Louis.”“Tell me,” she said.“No, ma’am. Not over the phone. I won’t. Rachel, I can’t. You go on now. Drive up to Portland and layover.”There was a long, considering pause.“All right,” she said at last. “Maybe you’re right. Jud, tell me one thing. Tell me how bad it is.”file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (286 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM