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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmsee what’s on the other end of that leash, Louis, I really don’t think you do, so don’t answer that phone,run, run now, the car’s in the garage, get in it and take off, but don’t answer that phone— He crossed theroom and picked it up, standing there with onehand on the dryer as he had so many times before, and it was Irwin Goldman, and even as Irwin saidhello Louis saw the tracks crossing the kitchen—small, muddy tracks—and his heart seemed to freeze inhis chest, and he believed he could feel his eyeballs swelling in his head, starting from their sockets; hebelieved that if he could have seen himself in a mirror at that moment he would have seen a face out of aseventeenth-century painting of a lunatic asylum. They were Gage’s tracks, Gage had been here, he hadbeen here in the night, and so where was he now?“It’s Irwin, Louis. . . Louis? Are you there? Hello?”“Hello, Irwin,” he said, and already he knew what Irwin was going to say. He understood the blue car.He understood everything. The leash . . . the leash going into the darkness . . . he was moving fast alongit now, hand over hand. Ah, if he could drop it before he saw what was at the end! But it was his leash.He had bought it.“For a moment I thought we’d been cut off,” Goldman was saying.“No, the phone slipped out of my hand,” Louis said. His voice was calm.“Did Rachel make it home last night?”“Oh yes,” Louis said, thinking of the blue car, Church perched on top of it, the blue car that was so still.His eye traced the muddy footprints on the floor.“I ought to speak to her,” Goldman said. “Right away. It’s about Eileen.”“Ellie? What about Ellie?”“I really think Rachel—”“Rachel’s not here right now,” Louis said harshly. “She’s gone to the store for bread and milk. Whatabout Ellie? Come on, Irwin!”“We had to take her to the hospital,” Goldman said reluctantly. “She had a bad dream or a whole seriesof them. She was hysterical and wouldn’t come out of it. She—”“Did they sedate her?”file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (316 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM