Chapter 10

Chapter 10 "I gave the mail to a man," Dink said as they pulled away from the dock a few minutes later. "Thanks a lot," Captain Morris said. "That'd be Greg Dack. He and his sister, Lynda, take care of the place for the owner." "Do they have any pets?" Josh asked, sliding a look at Dink and Ruth Rose. Morris shook his head. "Not that I've seen." Then he grinned. "Course, with that jungle they live in, they could hide an elephant on that island!" A few minutes later, he pulled the mail boat up to Wallis's dock. "Thanks a lot!" the kids all said.

“我把邮件给了一个人，”几分钟后，当他们离开码头时，丁克说。 “非常感谢，”莫里斯上尉说。 “那就是格雷格·达克。他和他的妹妹琳达为主人照看这个地方。” “他们有宠物吗?”乔希问，瞥了丁克和露丝·罗斯一眼。 莫里斯摇了摇头。“我没见过。” 然后他笑了。“当然，他们住在那片丛林里，他们可以在岛上藏一头大象!”几分钟后，他把邮船拉到了沃利斯的码头。 “非常感谢!”孩子们都说。

"My pleasure," Morris said. "Give Wallis and Walker and Abbi a big howdy from me." "We will," Dink said. "Bye, Captain Morris!" Morris tooted his horn and pulled away. The kids ran up the dock and into the cabin. Wallis, Walker, and Abbi were waiting for them. "How was your picnic?" Wallis asked. "Or should I say, how was your snooping expedition?" she added slyly. "Did you find the wolf pups?" Abbi asked. "No, but we might have found a clue!" Josh said. He told them about the blueberry stain on the dock. "It looked like it came off someone's shoe. Like whoever crushed those blueberries on that path!" "Josh, anyone could have left a blueberry stain on that dock," Wallis said. "This is blueberrypicking season. We have no proof it was the people who took the wolves." Ruth Rose told them about the brother-andsister caretakers. "Lynda Dack has long blond hair!" she said. "I knew it!" Abbi said. "There was a high fence all around the place," Dink said. "We couldn't see anything inside."

“我的荣幸，”莫里斯说。 "代我向沃利斯，沃克和艾比问好" “我们会的，”丁克说。“再见，莫里斯船长!”莫里斯吹了吹喇叭，把车开走了。 孩子们跑上码头，进了船舱。 沃利斯、沃克和阿比等着他们。 “你的野餐怎么样?”沃利斯问道。 “或者我应该说，你的窥探之旅怎么样?”她狡猾地补充道。 “你找到狼崽了吗?”艾比问道。 “没有，但我们可能找到了一条线索!”杰克说。 他告诉他们码头上的蓝莓污点。 “它看起来像是从谁的鞋子上掉下来的。 就像把蓝莓踩在路上的那个人一样!”“乔希，任何人都可能在码头上留下蓝莓的痕迹，”沃利斯说。 “这是采摘蓝莓的季节。 我们没有证据证明是人类带走了狼群。” 露丝·罗斯向他们讲述了那对照看孩子的兄妹。 “琳达·达克有一头长长的金发!”她说。 “我就知道!”艾比。丁克说:“周围都有高高的栅栏。 “我们什么也看不见。”

Ruth Rose remembered the tape. "Abbi, we forgot to ask Morris about the seals, but we tried to tape some seagulls for you." Ruth Rose put the tape recorder on the table and pressed the PLAY button. At first they heard only hissing, then the sound of gulls. Then the gull cries were interrupted by Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose talking. Suddenly they heard Josh's voice yell, "Shoo!" "This is when the gulls landed near us," Ruth Rose said. "I think they wanted our food." "It was nice of you to make the tape," Wallis said. "But those weren't all gull sounds!" Abbi said. She rewound the tape and hit PLAY again. "Listen," she said, leaning toward the machine and turning up the volume. The others leaned in, too. The cries were louder now. "There! Those aren't gulls," Abbi said. "I think they're the wolf pups!" "Honey, those sound like seagulls," Wallis said. "Are you sure you're not just—" "I know what gulls sound like," Abbi said. "I have them on another tape. It's on the deck, the

露丝·罗斯想起了那盘磁带。 “阿比，我们忘了问莫里斯海豹的事，但我们试着给你粘上一些海鸥。” 露丝·罗斯把录音机放在桌子上，按下播放键。 起初他们只听到嘶嘶声，然后是海鸥的叫声。 接着，海鸥的叫声被丁克、乔希和露丝·罗斯的谈话打断了。 突然，他们听到乔希的声音:“嘘!”“这是海鸥降落在我们附近的时候，”露丝·罗斯说。 “我想他们想要我们的食物。” 沃利斯说:“你能做这盘磁带真是太好了。” “但那些不全是海鸥的叫声!”艾比。 她把磁带倒回去，又按了播放键。 “听着，”她说着，把身子靠向机器，把音量调大。 其他人也凑了过来。 现在哭声更大了。 “有!那些不是海鸥。”阿比说。 “我想他们是狼崽!”“亲爱的，那些声音听起来像海鸥，”沃利斯说。 “我知道海鸥的声音是什么样的。”阿比说。 “我在另一盘磁带上有。 它在甲板上

cassette marked BIRDS." Walker hurried out to the deck and came back with the cassette. He ejected the one in the recorder and slid in the BIRDS tape. They heard the hooting of an owl, some loons, and finally a raucous, high-pitched squawking.

磁带上有“鸟”字样。”沃克急忙跑到甲板上，拿着录音带回来了。 他把录音机里的那盘拿出来，塞进《飞鸟》的磁带。 他们听到一只猫头鹰的叫声，几只潜鸟的叫声，最后是一声刺耳的尖叫声。

"Those are gull calls," Abbi said. "Do you hear the difference?" "Play the other one again," Ruth Rose said. Abbi switched cassettes, and they once more heard the sounds that Abbi said were the pups. "It does sound like puppies whimpering," Josh said. "My dog makes that noise when he's hungry!" "But how did we get the wolf pups on tape?" Dink asked. "We never saw them." "They must be hidden somewhere out there," Abbi said. "You might have heard them, but you thought they were seagull noises. Now we can tell the police!" "But this tape doesn't prove the wolves are on that island," Walker said. "The Dacks might have dogs." "But I saw the woman in the boat!" Abbi insisted. "I can tell the police she was the same woman I saw take the pups." "You saw her from a long distance both times," Walker told his niece. "You might have seen two different women with long blond hair." "Uncle Walker is right, hon," Wallis said. "We can call the game warden again, but I have a

“那是海鸥的叫声，”阿比说。 “你听出其中的区别了吗?”“再弹一遍另一个，”露丝·罗斯说。 阿比换了磁带，他们又一次听到了阿比所说的小狗的声音。 “听起来确实像小狗的呜咽声，”乔希说。 “我的狗饿了就会发出那种声音!”“但是我们是怎么把狼崽录下来的呢?”丁克问道。 “我们从没见过他们。”“他们一定藏在外面的某个地方。”阿比说。 “你可能听到了，但你以为那是海鸥的声音。 现在我们可以报警了!”“但这盘录像带并不能证明狼在那个岛上，”沃克说。 “达克家可能养了狗。” “但我看见那个女人在船上!”艾比坚持道。 “我可以告诉警察，她就是我看到带走小狗的那个女人。” “你两次都是从很远的地方看到她的，”沃克告诉他的侄女。 “你可能会看到两个不同的金发女人。” “沃克叔叔是对的，亲爱的，”沃利斯说。 “我们可以再打电话给狩猎管理员，但我有

feeling she'll want more proof before she accuses those people." "Abbi, what do wolves eat around here?" Dink asked suddenly. Abbi looked at Dink. "Small animals, mostly," she said. "Why?" "Well, Josh found a dead mouse in their boat," Dink explained. "Right, and I touched it," Josh said. "It was wet and slimy and gross!" "You should have heard Josh scream, Abbi," Ruth Rose said. Suddenly Abbi backed her wheelchair away from the table. She wheeled herself to the fireplace and came back with a book in her lap. With the others watching her, she flipped some pages, then started reading: A large part of a wolf's diet is rodents, mostly mice. Adult wolves often vomit up partially digested mice as food for their young. Abbi closed the book. "I think those baby wolves were in that boat," she declared. "The

觉得在指控那些人之前，她需要更多的证据。” “阿比，狼在这里吃什么?”丁克突然问道。 阿比看着丁克。“大多是小动物，”她说。 “为什么?”“嗯，乔希在他们的船上发现了一只死老鼠，”丁克解释说。 “对，我碰了它，”乔希说。 “又湿又黏又恶心!”“你应该听到乔希的尖叫，阿比，”露丝·罗斯说。 突然，阿比把轮椅从桌子旁挪开。 她推着轮椅走到壁炉前，回来时膝盖上放着一本书。 在其他人的注视下，她翻了几页，然后开始读:狼的大部分食物是啮齿动物，主要是老鼠。 成年狼经常把部分消化的老鼠吐出来作为幼狼的食物。 阿比合上书。“我想那些小狼就在那条船上，”她宣称。 “