Chapter 44 Forty-four

As Lewis left the Bangor International Airport building, a chill passed through his mind, and he began to realize what he wanted to accomplish.His brain had already considered it, and he wanted to take this as his biggest exam and pass it with perfect marks. Driving through Brewer, a small city on his way to Bangor, he parked across the street from a hardware store, got out, and walked into the store.The clerk asked him, "What do you want?" "You need a big flashlight and a cover that blocks the light from the flashlight," Lewis said. The clerk was a thin man with a large forehead and sharp eyes. He smiled and said, "For hunting?"

"what?" "You want a flashlight for deer hunting? Tonight?" Louis said without a trace of a smile: "Not at all, I don't have a hunting license yet." The clerk blinked, then laughed and said, "Oh, in other words, just do my own thing and don't meddle in my own business? Ah, look... this big flashlight doesn't have a cover, but you can use a felt Dig a small hole in the middle of the cloth so that you can shine the light of a small pen-like flashlight." Louis said, "Sounds good, thanks." "Of course, what do you want today?"

Louis said, "Ah, yes, I need a pick, a shovel, and a shovel. A short shovel and a long shovel. A sturdy eight-foot rope, a pair of work gloves, and There's a tarpaulin, 8 feet long and 8 feet wide." The clerk said, "We have all of these." Lewis said: "I'm going to dig a septic tank, as if I might be breaking city planning regulations by doing so, and my neighbors are very snoopy, don't know if it would help to cover the torches, but I think it's worth it Give it a try. I might have to pay a hefty fine." The clerk said, "Oh... oh, you'd better put a clothes peg on your nose, or else it's smelly enough."

Louis laughed out loud.These things cost a total of $58.60, and Louis paid in cash. Because of rising gas prices, Louis and the others used the station wagon less and less, but one wheel of that car was worn out, and Louis never fixed it.Now he wants to use this car, but he dare not bring a shovel and shovel to Lutherou Town to exchange for that car.Chad's eyes were sharp, his brain was on point, and he'd know what Louis was up to.Suddenly it occurred to Louis that he didn't have to return to Delou.He drove across the Chamberlin Bridge to Bangor, checked into a motel close to the airport and the Pleasant Cemetery, checked in under the name Ramon, and paid cash.

He tried to sleep first, thinking that the time before dawn would be exciting, because he had a lot of work to do tonight that would affect him throughout his life. But Louis's mind couldn't calm down. Lying on the bed with his hands under his head, he felt far away from his family, and images of his son kept flashing through his mind.He mulled over his plan.Feel like I'm going crazy.His plan was to go to the cemetery tonight at about 11 o'clock and dig his son out of the coffin, wrap it in tarpaulin and put it in the trunk of his car, then put the coffin and fill the grave.Then he'd drive back to Delou and get Gage's body out of the trunk—he was going to walk, yes, he was going to take a walk.

If Gage came back, there might be two possibilities.One was that Gage was still Gage, maybe a little unresponsive, maybe even demented, but he was still Louis' son, Rachel's son, Elle's brother. Another possibility is that he turned into a monster, or even a demon, a ghost that possessed Gage. In either case, he would be alone with his son.he can-- He could diagnose his son, and yes, he was going to do that.He wants to see his body, but also to examine his brain.He can see if his son has symptoms of dementia.He could check to see if it was possible to let Gage into his family again.He has anywhere from 24 hours to 72 hours to observe his son.If Gage changed too much, like Dim, and turned into a monster, he could be killed again.

As a doctor, he felt he could kill Gage, easily, if Gage was just something evil attached to his body.He will not heed the cries and howls of the monster, he will kill him like a rat with the plague.It's not too much trouble, a pill or two or three pills will solve it, if necessary, an injection, he has morphine in his medical kit, and the next night he can return the dead body to the coffin in the cemetery, the second time Good luck going back too.He also thought about burying him in a pet cemetery, but he didn't want to do that.The kids might just stumble upon it when they go there 5 or 10 years after they buried their pet, and it's too close to home.

After Gage was reburied in the cemetery, he flew to Chicago to be with his family, without Rachel or Elle needing to know about his experiment. If Gage was revived properly, he would leave Luther Hall overnight with Gage after the period of examining him, and he would bring some papers with him, but he planned on never coming back.He and Gage would first live in a motel, probably the one he was staying in now. The next day, he would cash all the deposits or exchange them for travelers checks, and then he and his son would fly somewhere else, probably to Florida.From there he called Rachel again and told her to take Allie on a plane without telling her parents where she was going.Louis believed he could convince his wife to do this, and he would tell her, Rachel, don't ask anything, just come, come now.

He will tell his wife where he lives, some motel.Rachel and Allie would come to him in a taxi, and when they knocked on the door, he would answer it with Gage, probably in a bathrobe. then…… Ah, but he didn't dare to think about it anymore, and he recalled his plan again in his mind.Imagine yourself saving a new life, something Goldman couldn't buy back with a check.He seemed to see himself wearing a white coat and rescuing a pregnant woman. He seemed to be saying, stand back, stand back, let her breathe some air.He heard himself saying these words.He seemed to see the woman open her eyes and smiled gratefully at him.

Louis fell asleep with these strange thoughts in his head. While Louis fell asleep, his daughter woke up screaming from a nightmare on a plane flying over Niagara Falls.With her hands clasped and her eyes staring in horror, the stewardess ran down the aisle of the plane to see what was going on; Rachel was anxiously reassuring her daughter.But Allie yelled over and over again: It's Gage!Mother!It's Gage!Gage is alive again!Gage grabs a knife from Dad's medical bag!Don't let him catch me!Don't let him catch Dad! As Louis fell asleep, Ellie finally settled down, trembling in her mother's arms, her eyes wide but without tears.Mrs. Goldman thought about how terrible all this was for Ellie, and she thought about Rachel after Zelda died.

Louis slept until a quarter past five, as the afternoon sun began to set and night fell. Crazy work, Louis thought foolishly as he got up.