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           Exceptthatitwasn’t,andLouisknewitwasn’t,andthreebeerswasn’tgoingtocurethatknowing,andthirty-threebeerswouldn’t.

           Churchhadbeendead,thatwasonething;hewasalivenowandthatwasanother;therewassomethingfundamentallydifferent,fundamentallywrongabouthim,andthatwasathird.Somethinghadhappened.Judhadrepaidwhathesawasafavor..butthemedicineavailableattheMicmacburyinggroundwasperhapsnotsuchgoodmedicine,andLouisnowsawsomethinginJud’seyesthattoldhimtheoldmanknewit.LouisthoughtofwhathehadseenorthoughthehadseeninJud’seyesthenightbefore.Thatcapering,gleefulthing.HerememberedthinkingthatJud’sdecisiontotakeLouisandEllie’scatonthatparticularnightjourneyhadnotentirelybeenJud’sown.

           Ifnothis,thenwhose?hismindasked.Andbecausehehadnoanswer,Louisswepttheuncomfortablequestionaway.

           "IburiedSpotandbuiltthecairn,"Judwentonflatly,"andbythetimeIwasdone,StannyB.wasfastasleep.Ihadtoshakethehelloutofhimtogethimgoingagain,butbythetimewegotdownthoseforty-fourstairs"

           "Forty-five,"Louismurmured.

           Judnodded."Yeah,that’sright,ain’tit?Forty-five.Bythetimewegotdownthoseforty-fivestairs,hewaswalkingassteadyasifhewassoberagain.

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