Chapter 6

Chapter 6 Inside the house, Officer Fallon examined the piece of glass. "If this came out of the boy's kaleidoscope, how'd it get to your front steps?" he asked.

在房子里，法伦警官检查了那块玻璃。 “如果这是从那个男孩的万花筒里出来的，它是怎么跑到你家门前的台阶上的?”他问道。

"The top unscrews," Dink explained. "Sammi likes to take the glass out." Josh and Ruth Rose stood silently in Dink's kitchen. Pal lay at Josh's feet, snoozing. Dink was sitting at the table with his mom and Officer Fallon. Officer Keene had left to organize a search. Officer Fallon sighed. He left the piece of glass on the table and stood up. "Green Lawn isn't that big," he said. "We'll find the boy. I'll make sure every possible way out of town is checked. Try not to worry, okay?" Dink's mother grabbed her car keys. "I'm going to drive around and look for him," she said. "Can we come, too?" Dink asked. His mother shook her head. "You can help by staying by the phone," she said. She looked at Officer Fallon. "Do you think the kidnappers would telephone here?" Officer Fallon nodded. "They might try to make contact. But kidnappers usually wait a few days before calling. They like to get the family worried so they'll hand over more ransom money." Dink watched his mother and Officer Fallon leave. He heard the front door lock click into

“顶部拧开了，”丁克解释说。 “萨米喜欢把杯子拿出来。” 乔希和露丝·罗斯静静地站在丁克的厨房里。 帕尔躺在乔希的脚边打盹。 丁克和他妈妈以及法伦警官坐在桌旁。 基恩警官去组织搜查了。 法伦警官叹了口气。他把那块玻璃放在桌上，站了起来。 “绿草坪没那么大，”他说。 “我们会找到那个男孩的。我会确保排查出城的每一条路。 别担心，好吗?”丁克的妈妈抓起她的车钥匙。 “我要开车到处找他，”她说。 “我们也能来吗?”丁克问道。 他的母亲摇了摇头。 “你可以在电话旁帮忙，”她说。 她看着法伦警官。 “你认为绑架者会打电话到这里来吗?”法伦警官点点头。 “他们可能会试图联系我们。 但绑架者通常会等上几天才打电话。 他们喜欢让家人担心，这样他们就会交出更多赎金。” 丁克目送母亲和法伦警官离开。 他听到前门的锁咔哒一声被锁上了

position. "Look at this," Dink said. He showed Josh and Ruth Rose the damaged back door. "Boy, this is creepy!" Josh said. "Poor Sammi," Ruth Rose said. "He must be so scared!" "Let's go check out his room," Dink said. "Maybe we'll find some more clues." The kids hurried toward the stairs. Pal followed them into Sammi's room, his long ears brushing the floor. Sammi's sheet and blanket were tangled, half off the bed. Dink walked over to the bureau. There was the kaleidoscope box and two small mounds of colored glass. Each mound was a different color.

的位置。“看看这个，”丁克说。 他给乔什和露丝·罗斯看了破损的后门。 “天哪，这太恐怖了!”杰克说。 “可怜的萨米，”露丝·罗斯说。 “他一定吓坏了!”“我们去看看他的房间吧，”丁克说。 “也许我们会找到更多的线索。” 孩子们匆匆奔向楼梯。 帕尔跟着他们进了萨米的房间，他的长耳朵擦着地板。 萨米的床单和毯子被缠在一起，半离了床。 丁克向写字台走去。 那里有一个万花筒盒子和两小堆彩色玻璃。 每个土堆都是不同的颜色。

"This is the kaleidoscope," Dink said, removing it from the box. "See, he took all the glass out." Josh touched the jewels that decorated the kaleidoscope. "Are these real?" he asked. "Sammi said they were," Dink answered. Ruth Rose was examining the pieces of glass. "Where are the yellow pieces?" she asked. "What do you mean?" Dink asked. "The piece we found is yellow," she said. "But all I see here is red and blue. No yellow." "That's weird," Dink said. "Let's look around." The kids began to search Sammi's room for the yellow glass. Pal waddled around, sniffing everything. Dink checked in the bathroom while Josh went through the clothes in the closet. Ruth Rose got down on her hands and knees and looked under the bed. "Well, if there's yellow glass in this room, I don't know where it is," Josh said. He stepped away from the closet. "WATCH OUT!" Ruth Rose yelled, stopping Josh in his tracks. She snatched something from the carpet where Josh was about to step. It was another piece of

“这是万花筒，”丁克说着，把它从盒子里拿了出来。 “看，他把所有的玻璃都拿出来了。” 乔什摸了一下装饰万花筒的珠宝。 “这些是真的吗?”他问。 “萨米说是的，”丁克回答。 露丝·罗斯正在检查那些玻璃碎片。 “黄色的碎片在哪里?”她问。 “你是什么意思?”丁克问道。 “我们找到的那块是黄色的，”她说。 “但我在这里看到的只有红色和蓝色。 没有黄色的。”“这很奇怪，”丁克说。 “我们四处看看吧。”孩子们开始在萨米的房间里寻找那块黄色的玻璃。 朋友摇摇摆摆地走来走去，嗅着每样东西。 丁克去洗手间检查了一下，乔什在衣橱里翻衣服。 露丝·罗斯跪在地上，往床底下看。 “好吧，如果这个房间里有黄色的玻璃，我不知道它在哪里，”乔希说。 他离开了壁橱。 “小心!”露丝·罗斯喊道，拦住了约什。 她从地毯上抓起什么东西，乔希正要踩到地毯上。 这是另一块

yellow glass. Just then, the phone rang. Dink ran down the stairs and grabbed the phone on its third ring. "Hello?" Dink listened for a minute, then yelled up the stairs, "Hey, guys, it's Officer Fallon. He wants to know if Sammi's pajamas and slippers are in his room. Can you look?" He waited. Ruth Rose came to the top of the stairs. "No pj's or slippers," she said. Dink spoke into the phone. "We can't find them." After a minute, Dink hung up the phone. He climbed the stairs to Sammi's room. "What's up with the slippers?" Josh asked. "Ron Pinkowski found a gold tassel near the river by his bait shop," Dink said. "Sammi's slippers had gold tassels on them." "But what—" "And one of Mr. Pinkowski's boats is missing," Dink interrupted. He stared at his two friends. "Officer Fallon thinks the kidnappers took Sammi away in a boat!"

黄色的玻璃。就在这时，电话响了。 丁克跑下楼梯，在电话铃响第三响时抓住了电话。 “喂?”丁克听了一会儿，然后在楼上喊道:“嘿，伙计们，我是法伦警官。 他想知道萨米的睡衣和拖鞋是否在他的房间里。 你能看看吗?”他等待着。露丝·罗斯来到楼梯顶上。 “不穿睡衣和拖鞋，”她说。 丁克对着电话说话。 “我们找不到他们。”过了一会儿，丁克挂了电话。 他爬上楼梯来到萨米的房间。 “拖鞋是怎么回事?”杰克问。 “罗恩·平科夫斯基在他的鱼饵店附近的河边发现了一个金流苏，”丁克说。 “萨米的拖鞋上有金流苏。” “还有平考斯基先生的一条船不见了。”丁克打断了他的话。 他盯着他的两个朋友。 “法伦警官认为绑匪用船把萨米带走了!”