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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmThinking such troubled half-dreaming thoughts, Louis Creed slipped away, unplugging his connectionsto waking reality line by line, until all thoughts ceased and exhaustion dragged him down to blackdreamless unconsciousness.Just before the first signs of dawn touched the sky in the east, there were footsteps on the stairs. Theywere slow and clumsy but purposeful. A shadow moved in the shadows of the hail. A smell came with it—a stench. Louis, even in his thick sleep, muttered and turned away from that smell. There was thesteady pull and release of respiration.The shape stood outside the master bedroom door for some little time, not moving. Then it came inside.Louis’s face was buried in his pillow. White hands reached out, and there was a click as the blackdoctor’s bag by the bed was opened.A low clink and shift as the things inside were moved.The hands explored, pushing aside drugs and ampules and syringes with no interest at all. Now theyfound something and held it up. In the first dim light there was a gleam of silver.The shadowy thing left the room.PART THREEOZ THE GWEATAND TEWWIBLEJesus therefore, groaning inside of himself and full of trouble, came to the grave. It was a cave, and astone had been raised against the mouth. “Roll away the stone,” Jesus said.Martha said, “Lord, by this time he will have begun to rot. He has been dead four days.”.And when he had prayed awhile, Jesus raised his voice and cried, “Lazarus, come forth!” And he thatwas dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes; and his face was bound about with anapkin.Jesus said to them, “Loose him and let him go.”—JOHN’S GOSPEL (paraphrase)file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (304 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM