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531
He
got
up
,
headed
for
the
stairs
,
and
suddenly
detoured
down
the
hall
to
Ellie
's
room
.
She
was
sleeping
peacefully
,
mouth
open
,
wearing
her
blue
baby-doll
pajamas
that
she
had
really
outgrown
.
My
God
,
Ellie
,
he
thought
,
you
're
sprouting
like
corn
.
Church
lay
between
her
splayed
ankles
,
also
dead
to
the
world
.
You
should
pardon
the
pun
.
532
Downstairs
there
was
a
bulletin
board
on
the
wall
by
the
phone
with
various
messages
,
memos
,
and
bills
tacked
to
it
.
Written
across
the
top
in
Rachel
's
neat
caps
was
THINGS
TO
PUT
OFF
AS
LONG
AS
POSSIBLE
.
Louis
got
the
telephone
book
,
looked
up
a
number
,
and
jotted
it
on
a
blank
memo
sheet
.
Below
the
number
he
wrote
:
Quentin
L.
Jolander
,
D.V.M.
--
call
for
appointment
re
Church
--
if
Jolander
does
n't
neuter
animals
,
he
will
refer
533
He
looked
at
the
note
,
wondering
if
it
was
time
,
knowing
that
it
was
.
Something
concrete
had
to
come
out
of
all
this
bad
feeling
,
and
he
had
decided
sometime
between
this
morning
and
tonight
--
without
even
knowing
he
was
deciding
--
that
he
did
n't
want
Church
crossing
the
road
anymore
if
he
could
help
it
.
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534
His
old
feelings
on
the
subject
rose
up
in
him
,
the
idea
that
neutering
would
lessen
the
cat
,
would
turn
him
into
a
fat
old
tom
before
his
time
,
content
to
just
sleep
on
the
radiator
until
someone
put
something
into
his
dish
.
He
did
n't
want
Church
like
that
.
He
liked
Church
the
way
he
was
,
lean
and
mean
.
535
Outside
in
the
dark
,
a
big
semi
droned
by
on
Route
15
,
and
that
decided
him
.
He
tacked
the
memo
up
and
went
to
bed
.
536
The
next
morning
at
breakfast
,
Ellie
saw
the
new
memo
on
the
bulletin
board
and
asked
him
what
it
meant
.
537
"
It
means
he
's
going
to
have
a
very
small
operation
,
"
Louis
said
.
"
He
'll
probably
have
to
stay
over
at
the
vet
's
for
one
night
afterward
.
And
when
he
comes
home
,
he
'll
stay
in
our
yard
and
not
want
to
roam
around
so
much
.
"
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538
"
Or
cross
the
road
?
"
Ellie
asked
.
539
She
may
be
only
five
,
Louis
thought
,
but
she
's
sure
no
slouch
.
"
Or
cross
the
road
,
"
he
agreed
.
540
"
Yay
!
"
Ellie
said
,
and
that
was
the
end
of
the
subject
.