Chapter 9

CHAPTER 9 Uncle Warren was in the kitchen looking glum when Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose rushed in. "Forest Evans just called," Uncle Warren said. "He's coming back tomorrow! What will I tell him?" Dink grinned. "Tell him we know who stole his painting!" Uncle Warren nearly dropped his coffee cup. "Do you really know, Donny? Who?" "The orangutan did it!" Josh said.

第九章沃伦叔叔在厨房里闷闷不乐，这时丁克、乔希和露丝·罗斯冲了进来。 “福里斯特·埃文斯刚打来电话，”沃伦叔叔说。 “他明天就回来!”我该怎么跟他说呢?”丁克咧嘴一笑。 “告诉他我们知道是谁偷了他的画!”沃伦叔叔差点把他的咖啡杯掉在地上。 “你真的知道吗，东尼?” 谁?”“是猩猩干的!”杰克说。

Interrupting each other, the three kids told Dink's uncle what they thought had happened. "But how would an ape recognize a valuable Monet?" Uncle Warren asked. Dink unbuttoned his shirt and carefully placed the snapshot on the table. "We think his trainer taught him to recognize the painting," Dink said. His uncle studied the photograph. "It's Forest's painting, all right," he said. "And look, that's the Eiffel Tower in the background. This picture was taken in Paris!" Uncle Warren shook his head. "I find this very hard to believe," he said. "An orangutan climbed up to my balcony, ate my oranges, then stole my friend's painting? Incredible!" "Orangutans are very smart," Josh said. "I saw a nature program about them once. One orangutan learned to count. They taught another one to turn on a VCR and pop in a video!" Uncle Warren nodded. "I'll give this photo to Detective Costello," he said. "But how do we find the orangutan's owner?" Ruth Rose asked. "We don't even know his name."

三个孩子打断了彼此的谈话，把他们认为发生的事情告诉了丁克的叔叔。 “但是猿猴怎么能认出莫奈的名画呢?”沃伦叔叔问。 丁克解开衬衫纽扣，小心翼翼地把照片放在桌上。 丁克说:“我们认为他的教练教他辨认这幅画。” 他叔叔仔细看了看照片。 “没错，这是福雷斯特的画，”他说。 “看，背景是埃菲尔铁塔。 这张照片是在巴黎拍的!”沃伦叔叔摇了摇头。 “我觉得这很难相信，”他说。 “一只猩猩爬上我的阳台，吃了我的橘子，然后偷了我朋友的画? 难以置信!”“猩猩非常聪明，”乔希说。 “我曾经看过一个关于它们的自然节目。 一只猩猩学会了数数。 他们教另一个人打开录像机，然后放一段视频!”沃伦叔叔点点头。 “我要把这张照片交给科斯特洛警探，”他说。 “但是我们怎样才能找到猩猩的主人呢?”露丝·罗斯问。 “我们甚至不知道他的名字。”

"Wait a minute!" Dink jumped up and ran into the living room. He came back carrying the jeans he'd been wearing the night before. "I took one of their flyers," he said, digging into the pocket. "Here it is!" He opened the flyer and spread it on the kitchen table. In large block letters were the words: FOWLERS' FARM ANIMAL ACTS OF ALL KINDS FOR PARTIES AND SCHOOL EVENTS Below the words was a picture of the man and woman they'd seen the night before. Their names were printed beneath the picture: HARVEY AND GINNY FOWLER Beside that picture was another one. In it, the orangutan was riding the pony. The caption said: OLLIE THE ORANGUTAN AND POLLY THE PONY!

“等一下!”丁克跳起来，跑进客厅。 他拿着前一天晚上穿的牛仔裤回来了。 “我拿了他们的一张传单，”他说着，把手伸进口袋。 “在这儿!”他打开传单，把它铺在厨房的桌子上。 上面用大字体写着:聚会和学校活动中各种捕鸟人的农场动物行为。文字下面是他们前一天晚上见到的那对男女的照片。 照片下面印着他们的名字:哈维和金妮·福勒，照片旁边还有一张。 在视频中，猩猩骑着小马。 配文写道:猩猩奥利和小马波莉!

At the very bottom of the page were a telephone number and address. "They live in Ossining, New York," Dink's uncle said. "That's not far from here. Excellent, Donny!" "Now all we have to do is get that detective to arrest them," Josh said. "I'm afraid not," Uncle Warren said. "We have no proof that these people trained their animal to steal Forest's painting. We have a lot of theories, a photo, and hairs that might have come from that orangutan. Still, I doubt that's enough for Detective Costello to make an arrest." "If only we could get Mr. or Mrs. Fowler's fingerprints," Dink said. "Then we could see if they match any of the prints on the snapshot." "That would be a start," Uncle Warren said, "but still no proof that their animal stole the painting." "What if we got a hair from Ollie?" Ruth Rose said. "If the hair matched the one we found in the kitchen, wouldn't that prove he was in this apartment?"

在这一页的最下面有一个电话号码和地址。 “他们住在纽约的奥西宁，”丁克的叔叔说。 “那离这儿不远。 优秀,唐尼!”“现在我们要做的就是让那个侦探逮捕他们，”乔希说。 “恐怕不行，”沃伦叔叔说。 “我们没有证据证明这些人训练他们的动物来偷福里斯特的画。 我们有很多理论，一张照片，还有可能来自那只猩猩的毛发。 不过，我怀疑这是否足以让科斯特洛警探逮捕他。” “要是我们能弄到福勒先生或太太的指纹就好了。”丁克说。 “然后我们可以看看它们是否与快照上的任何指纹相匹配。” “这将是一个开始，”沃伦叔叔说，“但仍然没有证据证明他们的动物偷了画。” “如果我们能从奥利那里得到一根头发呢?”露丝·罗斯说。 “如果头发和我们在厨房里找到的相符，那不就证明他在这间公寓里吗?”

Dink's uncle smiled. "I think that would be enough to convince Detective Costello," he said. "But how do we obtain this hair?" Ruth Rose grinned. "I thought you'd never ask," she said.

丁克的叔叔笑了。“我认为这足以说服科斯特洛警探，”他说。 “但是我们怎么得到这些头发呢?”露丝·罗斯咧嘴一笑。 “我以为你永远不会问，”她说。