Chapter 9

Chapter 9 Lucy dropped the kids off, and they traipsed into the hotel. "What are we gonna do about Byron?" Josh asked. "I think he dug up those graves, and I think he was the guy we saw in the cemetery last night!" "Let's talk upstairs," Dink said quietly. They took the elevator. On their floor, Ruth Rose unlocked the room she shared with her grandmother. "Here's what I think," Dink said, sitting on the carpet. "The man we saw in the cemetery last

露西让孩子们下车，他们慢吞吞地走进旅馆。 "我们该拿拜伦怎么办"杰克问。 “我认为是他挖了那些坟墓，我认为他就是我们昨晚在墓地看到的那个人!”“我们上楼谈吧，”丁克平静地说。 他们坐了电梯。在他们那一层，露丝·罗斯打开了她和祖母住的房间的锁。 “我是这么想的，”丁克坐在地毯上说。 “就是我们上次在墓地看到的那个人

night might have dug up those two graves, but we don't know that for sure." Josh and Ruth Rose plopped down next to Dink. "And we don't know if the guy we saw was Byron, either," Dink went on. "Well, I think it was Byron," Josh said. "Who else could it be?" "How about Jack?" Dink asked. "He's tall, and he has light hair like the man in the cemetery." "Jack?" Ruth Rose said. "But he was sleeping in his hammock." "Did you actually see him in the hammock when we left?" Dink asked. "Jack could've gone to the cemetery-after we were asleep and made it back to the campsite before we did." Josh shook his head. "Why would Jack be down inside that grave?" he asked. "I don't know," Dink said. "But I don't know why Byron would, either." "I just thought of someone else with light hair," Ruth Rose said. Dink and Josh looked at her. "That man we passed on the trail with Lucy," she said. "He was wearing that funny hat, but

也许是黑夜挖出了那两座坟墓，但我们不确定。” 乔希和露丝·罗斯扑通一声坐在丁克旁边。 “我们也不知道我们看到的那个人是不是拜伦，”丁克接着说。 “嗯，我想是拜伦，”乔希说。 “还能是谁呢?”“杰克怎么样?”丁克问道。 “他很高，头发很浅，就像墓地里的那个人一样。” “杰克?”露丝·罗斯说。“但他睡在吊床上。” “我们离开的时候，你真的看到他躺在吊床上了吗?”丁克问道。 “杰克可以在我们睡着之后去墓地，在我们之前回到营地。” 乔希摇了摇头。“为什么杰克会在下面的坟墓里?”他问。 “我不知道，”丁克说。 “但我也不知道拜伦为什么会这样。” “我只是想到了另一个浅色头发的人，”露丝·罗斯说。 丁克和乔希看着她。 “我们和露西在路上碰到的那个人。”她说。 “他戴着那顶滑稽的帽子，但是

underneath, his hair was kind of grayish white." "And you know what else?" Dink said. "He and another guy were sitting in the restaurant when we had lunch with your grandmother yesterday!" "So?" said Josh. "Well, they seemed pretty interested when we were talking about zombies and stuff," Dink said. Josh laughed. "Who wouldn't be?" he said. Just then the kids heard a light thump coming from the hallway. They froze, all staring at the doorknob as it slowly turned. Suddenly the door swung open and Ruth Rose's grandmother walked in.

下面，他的头发有点灰白色。” “你知道还有什么吗?”丁克说。 “昨天我们和你奶奶吃午饭的时候，他和另一个人坐在餐馆里!”“那又怎样?” “嗯，当我们谈论僵尸之类的东西时，他们似乎很感兴趣，”丁克说。 杰克笑了。“谁不会呢?”他说。 就在这时，孩子们听到走廊上传来一声轻轻的撞击声。 他们僵住了，都盯着慢慢转动的门把手。 突然，门开了，露丝·罗斯的祖母走了进来。

"What's the matter with you three?" she asked, setting down her paint box. "You look like you've seen a ghost!" "Gram, you scared us!" Ruth Rose cried. "Me? I'm just a harmless old lady! So how was the sleep-out with Jack?" she asked. "We had a nice time, Gram," Ruth Rose said. "We've just been trying to figure out who robbed those graves." Ruth Rose's grandmother sat on her bed and kicked off her sandals. "Can I help?" she asked. Ruth Rose told her grandmother all about going to the cemetery last night, and about the man they saw crawling out of the grave. "My word!" her grandmother said. "Did you tell Jack what you saw?" "Yes," Dink said. "He said it was probably one of the men from the village guarding the cemetery." "Dink thinks the guy we saw was Jack," Josh said. "I didn't say it was Jack," Dink responded. "I said it could be. The person in the grave was tall and he had light hair and dark clothes. Just like Jack."

“你们三个怎么了?”她问，放下了她的颜料盒。 “你看起来像见了鬼一样!”“奶奶，你吓到我们了!”露丝·罗斯哭了。 “我?我只是一个无害的老太太!和杰克一起出去过夜怎么样?”她问。 “我们玩得很开心，奶奶，”露丝·罗斯说。 “我们只是想找出是谁抢劫了那些坟墓。” 露丝·罗斯的祖母坐在她的床上，踢掉了她的凉鞋。 “我能帮忙吗?”她问。露丝·罗斯把昨晚去墓地的事告诉了她的祖母，还有他们看到的那个从坟墓里爬出来的人。 “我发誓!”她的祖母说。 “你把你看到的告诉杰克了吗?”“是的，”丁克说。 “他说可能是村里看守墓地的人。” “丁克认为我们看到的那个人是杰克，”乔希说。 “我没说那是杰克，”丁克回答。 “我说有可能。坟墓里的人很高，浅色头发，深色衣服。 就像杰克一样。”

"And just like Byron," Josh said. Ruth Rose's grandmother looked at Josh. "Now, who is Byron?" she asked. "He's this man we met after Jack took his wife to the hospital this morning," Ruth Rose said. "Yes, Jack kindly called me and let me know you'd be staying in the village with someone called Myrna Sanchez," her grandmother said. "But you decided to go back to the cemetery, right?" "We wanted to look for clues," Ruth Rose said. "But the villagers were all in the cemetery, so we followed some footprints. They led right to a cabin in the woods. That's where we met Byron and his owl, Bill." "I think Byron's the guy we saw in the graveyard," Josh interrupted. "I think he stole those coffins, too, because there was red dirt on his shovel just like the clay in the cemetery!" Finally, Ruth Rose told her grandmother about the man they had met on the path. "It could have been him, too," she said. "He had light hair, and he seemed pretty interested in the village." Dink mentioned that the same man had been eating lunch near them yesterday. "I think he was

“就像拜伦，”乔希说。 露丝·罗斯的祖母看着乔希。 “那么，拜伦是谁?”她问。 “他就是今天早上杰克送他妻子去医院后我们遇到的那个人，”露丝·罗斯说。 “是的，杰克好心地打电话给我，告诉我你会和一个叫玛娜·桑切斯的人住在村里，”她的祖母说。 “但你决定回到墓地，对吗?”“我们想寻找线索，”露丝·罗斯说。 “但是村民们都在墓地里，所以我们跟着一些脚印走。 它们直接通向树林里的一间小屋。 我们就是在那里遇到拜伦和他的猫头鹰比尔的。” “我想拜伦就是我们在墓地看到的那个人。”乔希打断了他的话。 “我认为他也偷了那些棺材，因为他的铲子上有红土，就像墓地里的粘土一样!”最后，露丝·罗斯把她们在路上遇到的那个男人的事告诉了祖母。 “也可能是他，”她说。 “他留着浅色头发，看起来对村子很感兴趣。” 丁克提到同一个男人昨天在他们附近吃午饭。 “我想是的

trying to hear what we were saying," he said. "Okay you've mentioned three different men who are tall with light hair," Ruth Rose's gram said. "One of them could be the man you saw last night. What I don't understand is why any of them would have any interest in that cemetery." "I just thought of something," Dink said. "When we walked down to the water with Jack, he told us he'd love to buy a piece of that land." Everyone was staring at Dink. "What if Jack put up that sign and dug up the graves to scare the villagers?" Dink continued. "If they left, maybe he'd be able to buy their land."

试着听听我们在说什么，”他说。 “好吧，你提到了三个不同的高个子、浅色头发的男人，”露丝·罗斯的祖母说。 “其中一个可能就是你昨晚看到的那个人。 我不明白的是，他们为什么会对那个墓地感兴趣。” “我刚想到一件事，”丁克说。 “当我们和杰克一起走到水边时，他告诉我们他很想买一块那块地。” 每个人都盯着丁克。 “要是杰克贴了那个牌子，挖了坟墓吓唬村民怎么办?”丁克继续说。 “如果他们走了，也许他能买到他们的土地。”