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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmBeyond the head of Louis’s hot-topped driveway there was a field that stretched up a long, gently risinghill. The timothy grass, although still green, had grown high already this May, but Steve could see apath, almost as neatly mowed as a putting green on a golf course. It wound and meandered its way upthe slope of the field, rising to meet the woods that began, thick and green, just below the horizon. It washere, where the pale green of the timothy grass met the thicker, denser green of the woods, that Stevehad seen movement—a flash of bright white that seemed to be moving. It was gone almost as soon ashis eye registered it, but it had seemed to him for that brief moment that he had seen a man carrying awhite bundle.That was Louis, his mind told him with sudden irrational certainty. That was Louis, and you better get tohim quick because something damn bad has happened and pretty quick something even more damn badis going to happen if you don’t stop him.He stood indecisively at the head of the driveway, shifting one foot for the other, his weight jitterybetween the two of them.Steve baby, you’re scared shitless just about now, aren’t you?Yes. He was. He was scared shitless and for no reason at all. But there was also a certain. . . a certain(attraction)yes, a certain attraction here, something about that path, that path leading up the hill and perhapscontinuing on into the woods—surely that path had to go somewhere., didn’t it? Yes, of course it did.All paths eventually went somewhere.Louis. Don’t forget about Louis, you dummy! Louis was the man you came out to see, remember? Youdidn’t come out to Ludlow to go exploring the goddam woods.“What you got there, Randy?” the would-be hero cried. His voice, still shrill and somehow optimistic,carried well.Randy’s reply was almost but not quite obscured by the growing wail of the fire sirens. “Dead cat.”“Burnt up?”“Don’t look burnt,” Randy returned. “Just looks dead.”And Steve’s mind returned implacably, as if the exchange across the street had something to do withwhat he had seen—or what he thought he had seen: That was Louis.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (328 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM