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"
On
my
way
,
"
he
said
and
hung
up
.
It
had
not
been
a
heart
attack
.
It
had
been
a
cerebral
accident
,
sudden
and
probably
painless
.
When
Louis
called
Steve
Masterton
that
afternoon
and
told
him
what
was
going
on
,
Steve
said
that
he
would
n't
mind
going
out
just
that
way
.
"
Sometimes
God
dillies
and
dallies
,
"
Steve
said
,
"
and
sometimes
He
just
points
at
you
and
tells
you
to
hang
up
your
jock
.
"
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Rachel
did
not
want
to
talk
about
it
at
all
and
would
not
allow
Louis
to
talk
to
her
of
it
.
Ellie
was
not
so
much
upset
as
she
was
surprised
and
interested
--
it
was
what
Louis
thought
a
thoroughly
healthy
six-year-old
reaction
should
be
.
She
wanted
to
know
if
Mrs.
Crandall
had
died
with
her
eyes
open
or
shut
.
Louis
said
he
did
n't
know
.
Jud
took
hold
as
well
as
could
have
been
expected
,
considering
the
fact
that
the
lady
had
been
sharing
bed
and
board
with
him
for
almost
sixty
years
.
Louis
found
the
old
man
--
and
on
this
day
he
looked
very
much
like
an
old
man
of
eighty-three
--
sitting
alone
at
the
kitchen
table
,
smoking
a
Chesterfield
,
drinking
a
bottle
of
beer
,
and
staring
blankly
into
the
living
room
.
He
looked
up
when
Louis
came
in
and
said
,
"
Well
,
she
's
gone
,
Louis
.
"
He
said
this
in
such
a
clear
and
matter-of-fact
way
that
Louis
thought
it
must
not
have
really
cleared
through
all
the
circuits
yet
--
had
n't
hit
him
yet
where
he
lived
.
Then
Jud
's
mouth
began
to
work
and
he
covered
his
eyes
with
one
arm
.
Louis
went
to
him
and
put
an
arm
around
him
.
Jud
gave
in
and
wept
.
It
had
cleared
the
circuits
,
all
right
.
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Jud
understood
perfectly
.
His
wife
had
died
.
"
That
's
good
,
"
Louis
said
.
"
That
's
good
,
Jud
,
she
would
want
you
to
cry
a
little
,
I
think
.
Probably
be
pissed
off
if
you
did
n't
.
"
He
had
started
to
cry
a
little
himself
.
Jud
hugged
him
tightly
,
and
Louis
hugged
him
back
.
Jud
cried
for
ten
minutes
or
so
,
and
then
the
storm
passed
.
Louis
listened
to
the
things
Jud
said
then
with
great
care
--
he
listened
as
a
doctor
as
well
as
a
friend
.
He
listened
for
any
circularity
in
Jud
's
conversation
;
he
listened
to
see
if
Jud
's
grasp
of
when
was
clear
(
no
need
to
check
him
on
where
;
that
would
prove
nothing
because
for
Jud
Crandall
the
where
had
always
been
Ludlow
,
Maine
)
;
he
listened
most
of
all
for
any
use
of
Norma
's
name
in
the
present
tense
.
He
found
little
or
no
sign
that
Jud
was
losing
his
grip
.
Louis
was
aware
that
it
was
not
uncommon
for
two
old
married
people
to
go
almost
hand-in-hand
,
a
month
,
a
week
,
even
a
day
apart
.
The
shock
,
he
supposed
,
or
maybe
even
some
deep
inner
urge
to
catch
up
with
the
one
gone
(
that
was
a
thought
he
would
not
have
had
before
Church
;
he
found
that
many
of
his
thoughts
concerning
the
spiritual
and
the
supernatural
had
undergone
a
quiet
but
nonetheless
deep
sea-change
)
.
His
conclusion
was
that
Jud
was
grieving
hard
but
that
he
was
still
compos
mentis
.
He
sensed
in
Jud
none
of
that
transparent
frailty
that
had
seemed
to
surround
Norma
on
New
Year
's
Eve
,
when
the
four
of
them
had
sat
in
the
Creed
living
room
,
drinking
eggnog
.