The Pigman's Legacy (The Sequel to The Pigman) by Zindel Paul

Author:Zindel, Paul [Zindel, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: book
Publisher: Graymalkin Media
Published: 2012-12-16T06:00:00+00:00

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At first I thought Lorraine was bananas, but sure enough, every time I said “Gus” the dog would bark, and perk up, and look at me and wag his tail. At one point he ran right to my side with his tongue hanging out of his mouth. I realized of course this had to be the Colonel's dog, which is why the poor mutt was sitting in the back of the car waiting for us.

“Do you know how to wake up the Colonel?” I asked.

Gus barked, then jumped past me back into the car and started licking the Colonel's face. It took no more than a few seconds to revive the old man, and he woke up patting the dog on the head. “That's my boy,” the old man kept saying over and over again, “that's my boy.” Then the Colonel ordered us to help him out of the car. All the energy he'd seemed to have at the town house was gone. Lorraine and I lined up like crutches again and were as gentle as we could be. We got him inside the house and up the stairs, and all the while he kept telling us how nice it was going to be to have a dog around the house. When he reached his bedroom, he seemed almost surprised to find his trunk waiting for him. I tucked him into his chair and Lorraine took a blanket and covered his legs. Then I pulled down the shades to darken the room. Lorraine and I were just about ready to give him some peace and quiet when I heard him call us back. We moved close to him.

“What is it?” I asked.

There was a long pause.

“Good night, John,” he whispered. “Good night, Lorraine.”

“Good night, Colonel,” we said softly, even though it wasn't nighttime at all.

He looked at us as if he couldn't be sure he had heard us call him the Colonel. We hadn't meant to; it just happened. He turned away for a moment, and his eyes filled up with tears. Then he looked directly back at us. We reached out and took his hand and stayed with him until he fell asleep.

I told Lorraine to watch him while I took a quick run down to the little A&P. She didn't really like the idea of being left alone in the house, but when I told her what we had on our hands was not a ghost, but a very real old man who had probably gone broke because he couldn't pay taxes on the town house or come up with taxes on his income to the IRS, I think she found those earthly reasons enough. Besides, she had Gus, the German shepherd, and he looked like he'd fight to the death to protect the Colonel and Lorraine as well. I had only four dollars and thirty-seven cents, so I bought grapefruit juice, a half dozen eggs, a quarter pound of butter, a half gallon of acidophilus milk, two

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