Chapter 7

Chapter 7 It took them only a few minutes to carry the telescope to the front section of the deck. Abbi showed them where to position it. The rain drummed steadily on the tin roof over the porch. Josh put his eye to the lens. "I can hardly see anything through the rain," he said. "I'll have to wait till it stops," Abbi said. Dink knew Abbi was disappointed that she couldn't use her telescope. "Do you have Monopoly?" he asked. "We could play till the rain stops."

他们只用了几分钟就把望远镜搬到了甲板前部。 阿比告诉他们该放在哪里。 雨点不停地打在门廊上方的铁皮屋顶上。 乔希把眼睛对准镜头。 “在雨中我几乎什么也看不见，”他说。 “我得等雨停了再说。”阿比说。 丁克知道阿比因为不能使用望远镜而感到失望。 “你们有大富翁吗?”他问。 “我们可以一直玩到雨停。”

Abbi nodded. "Sure, it's on the shelf by the fireplace." Josh rubbed his hands together and grinned. "How about we make teams? Boys against girls?" Abbi and Ruth Rose exchanged glances. "You're doomed," Ruth Rose said. The kids set up a table in the living room. Wallis and Walker joined the teams. Thunder boomed and lightning lit up the ocean as they played late into the evening. The rain finally stopped, but the game still wasn't over when Wallis yawned and declared it bedtime. Dink picked up a flashlight, and he and Josh walked out onto the deck. They stood for a minute and stared toward the ocean. They could hear waves hitting rocks, and the smell was sweet and salty. "I wonder where those poor baby wolves could possibly be," Josh said.

艾比点了点头。“当然可以，在壁炉旁的架子上。” 乔希搓着双手，咧嘴一笑。 “我们组队怎么样?”男孩对女孩?”阿比和露丝·罗斯交换了一下眼色。 “你死定了，”露丝·罗斯说。 孩子们在客厅里摆了一张桌子。 沃利斯和沃克加入了团队。 他们一直玩到深夜，雷声隆隆，闪电照亮了大海。 雨终于停了，但游戏还没有结束，沃利斯打了个哈欠，宣布睡觉了。 丁克拿起手电筒，和乔希走到甲板上。 他们站了一会儿，凝视着大海。 他们能听到海浪撞击岩石的声音，那味道又甜又咸。 “我想知道那些可怜的小狼可能在哪里，”乔希说。

"And the mother," Dink added. "Gee, maybe she came down here and crawled into your bed." Josh laughed. "Grandmother, what big teeth you have!" he said like Little Red Riding Hood. The boys made their way around the deck and slipped inside their tent. After they were undressed and beneath their blankets, Dink reached out and shut off the lamp. He was almost asleep when Josh grabbed his shoulder. "Dink!" Josh whispered. "Something's moving around outside the tent!" Dink opened his eyes. "What? All I hear is you keeping me awake."

“还有母亲，”丁克补充道。 “哎呀，也许她跑到这儿来，爬上了你的床。” 杰克笑了。“奶奶，你的牙齿好大啊!”他像小红帽一样说。 男孩们绕过甲板，溜进帐篷。 他们脱下衣服，盖上毯子后，丁克伸手关上了灯。 他快睡着了，乔希抓住了他的肩膀。 “丁克!”杰克小声说。“帐篷外面有东西在动!”丁克睁开了眼睛。 “什么?我只听到你叫我睡不着。”

"Shhh! Listen!" Josh hissed. Dink yawned. "Josh, if you're …" Then Dink heard a slithery noise, like something scratching against canvas. Dink gulped. Josh was right-something was outside their tent! A moment later, he heard a wolf howling. "Oh, gosh!" Josh cried. "The mother wolf came after us. She's on the deck!" When the wolf howl stopped, Dink heard another strange noise—rubber wheels squeaking on the wooden deck. He also heard two girls giggling. Dink smiled. "That wasn't a wolf," he told Josh. "It wasn't?" Josh whispered. "What was it?" "Something much worse than a wolf," Dink whispered in return, holding back a giggle. "What could be worse?" Josh asked. "A bear?" "Even worse," Dink said. "That's Ruth Rose and Abbi out there, trying to scare you with Abbi's wolf recording. And they did!" "Did not," Josh said. "Did too," Dink said, just before he fell asleep.

“嘘!听!”Josh发出嘘嘘的声音。 丁克打了个哈欠。“乔希，如果你……”接着丁克听到一阵滑溜的声音，像是什么东西在刮帆布。 丁克一饮而尽。乔什是对的，他们的帐篷外面有东西!过了一会儿，他听到狼在嚎叫。 “哦,天哪!”杰克哭了。“母狼跟在我们后面。 她在甲板上!”当狼的嚎叫停止时，丁克听到了另一种奇怪的声音——木制甲板上的橡胶轮子吱吱作响。 他还听到两个女孩咯咯地笑。 丁克笑了。“那不是狼，”他告诉乔希。 “不是吗?”杰克小声说。 “那是什么?”“比狼可怕得多的东西。”丁克小声回答，忍住了咯咯的笑。 “还有比这更糟的吗?”杰克问。 “一只熊?”“更糟，”丁克说。 “那是露丝·罗斯和阿比，想用阿比的狼录音吓唬你。 他们做到了!”“没有。”乔希说。 “我也是，”丁克说，就在他睡着之前。

The next morning was bright and sunny. The only signs of the storm were a few puddles. "What do you kids have planned?" Wallis asked at the breakfast table. "I'm going to sit at my telescope until I find those people who took the wolf pups," Abbi said. "We'll help her," Dink said. "We can each take turns looking through the telescope." Wallis stood up and carried her plate to the counter. "Well, I'm going grocery-shopping. Food disappears fast in this house!" "I'm going to work on my plane," Walker said. He helped clear the table, then left through the back door. Abbi, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose took turns peering at the ocean through the telescope. They saw hundreds of boats, of all sizes and colors. Ruth Rose pointed out a woman who was sailing a small boat. She had short blond hair. Abbi shook her head. "No, the one I saw had a ponytail," she said. "It was sticking out that little opening in the back of her baseball cap." It was Josh's turn at the telescope. "Hey, Abbi, take a look," he said. "A woman with long blond hair is going by in a blue motorboat."

第二天早晨阳光明媚。 暴风雨的唯一迹象是几处水坑。 “你们这些孩子有什么计划?”沃利斯在早餐桌上问道。 “我要坐在望远镜前，直到我找到那些带走狼崽的人，”阿比说。 “我们会帮助她的，”丁克说。 “我们可以轮流用望远镜看。” 沃利斯站起来，把盘子端到柜台前。 “嗯，我要去杂货店买东西。 在这所房子里，食物消失得很快!”“我要在我的飞机上工作，”沃克说。 他帮着收拾桌子，然后从后门走了。 阿比、丁克、乔希和露丝·罗斯轮流透过望远镜凝视着大海。 他们看到数百艘船，大小各异，颜色各异。 露丝·罗斯指着一个正在驾驶小船的女人。 她留着金色的短发。阿比摇了摇头。 “不，我看到的那个是扎马尾的，”她说。 “它从她棒球帽后面的那个小开口伸出来了。” 轮到乔希看望远镜了。 “嘿，阿比，看看，”他说。 “一个金色长发的女人乘着一艘蓝色的摩托艇经过。”

Abbi quickly took Josh's place at the telescope. She put her eye to the lens. "That's her!" she cried. "She's even wearing the same baseball cap!" Abbi pointed to the boat in the harbor. "Let's watch where she goes!" They watched as the boat moved away growing smaller in the distance. "I've lost her," Dink said. "There are too many small boats out there." "Well, I can still see her," Abbi said, her eye still at the telescope. A few seconds later, Abbi backed away from the telescope. "The woman went to one of the small islands," she said. "She tied her boat up at a dock with a blue awning at the end." Each of the kids looked through the telescope. Each could see the dock and the blue canvas. "Now what do we do?" Ruth Rose asked. Abbi looked at Ruth Rose. "Someone has to check out that island," she said.

阿比迅速地坐在了乔希的位置上。 她把眼睛对准镜头。 “就是她!”她叫道。“她甚至戴着同样的棒球帽!”阿比指着停泊在港口的那艘船。 “让我们看看她要去哪里!”他们看着船渐渐远去，越来越小。 “我失去了她，”丁克说。 “外面的小船太多了。” “嗯，我还能看见她。”阿比说，她的眼睛仍然盯着望远镜。 几秒钟后，阿比从望远镜前后退了几步。 “那个女人去了一个小岛，”她说。 她把船拴在码头上，船尾有一个蓝色的遮篷。 每个孩子都用望远镜看。 每个人都能看到码头和蓝色的帆布。 “现在我们该怎么办?”露丝·罗斯问。 阿比看着露丝·罗斯。“总得有人去看看那个岛，”她说。