Chapter 6

Chapter 6 "It smells awful in here," Josh muttered. "Josh, this closet is filled with cleaning stuff," Dink told him. "It's supposed to smell awful." "Could you guys whisper?" Ruth Rose said. "You want our parents to wake up and find us gone?" It was nearly midnight. Ten minutes before, the kids had snuck out of their rooms and hidden in

“这里闻起来很难闻。”乔希嘟囔着。 “乔希，这个衣橱里都是清洁用品，”丁克告诉他。 “它应该闻起来很难闻。” “你们能小声点吗?”露丝·罗斯说。 “你想让我们的父母醒来发现我们不见了吗?”已经快半夜了。 十分钟前，孩子们从房间里溜出来躲起来了

the closet. Josh yawned. "I should be asleep, having a great dream," he said. "Instead, I'm squashed in here like a sardine, waiting for a dumb ghost who isn't even real!" Dink grinned in the dark. "I heard that ghosts hate kids with red hair," he whispered. "Yeah? Well, I heard that ghosts eat blondhaired kids for breakfast!" Suddenly Ruth Rose put out both hands. "Shh, I think I heard something," she said. Josh snorted. "Nice try, Ruth Rose, but…" "Shh!" whispered Dink. "I heard something, too!" He pushed the closet door open a crack. All three kids peered out into the hallway. Dink heard a groan, like the wind howling through a cave. Suddenly a tall white figure appeared at the end of the hall. It gave off a shimmery white light and seemed to float above the floor. "Oh my gosh!" Josh croaked. "I wanna go back to bed!" The ghost wore a long white gown. Its hair was white and stuck up in spikes. And there were just

壁橱里。杰克打了个哈欠。“我应该睡着了，做个好梦，”他说。 “相反，我像沙丁鱼一样被压在这里，等着一个甚至不存在的哑巴鬼!”丁克在黑暗中咧着嘴笑。 “我听说鬼魂讨厌红头发的孩子。”他低声说。 “是吗?我听说鬼魂把金发小孩当早餐吃!”露丝·罗斯突然伸出双手。 “嘘，我好像听到了什么声音，”她说。 Josh哼了一声。“好样的，露丝·罗斯，但是……”“嘘!”丁克小声说。 “我也听到了一些声音!”他把壁橱的门推开一条缝。 三个孩子都盯着外面的走廊。 丁克听到一声呻吟，就像风在山洞里呼啸。 突然，一个高大的白色身影出现在大厅的尽头。 它发出一种闪烁的白光，似乎漂浮在地板上。 “我的天哪!”杰克死掉。 “我想回去睡觉!”鬼魂穿着一件白色长袍。 它的毛是白色的，竖成尖刺。 只是

black, empty holes where the eyes should have been! Josh grabbed Dink's arm. It hurt, but Dink was too scared to say anything. The figure drifted slowly toward the kids' hiding place. It was carrying a long silver sword. "It knows we're in here!" Josh squeaked. The ghost paused at each door, then stopped in front of Room 202. That's our room! Dink thought. "Diiiiinnnnk," the ghost moaned. "Goooo hooooome! Thiiiis plaaace is daaaangerous!" Every hair on Dink's head stood up. He felt cold, as if someone had opened a window. The ghost floated to the next room. This time it moaned, "Josssh, go hooome. Leave before it's toooo laaate!"

眼睛本该在的地方又黑又空的洞!乔希抓住丁克的胳膊。 很痛，但丁克太害怕了，什么也说不出来。 那个身影慢慢地飘向孩子们的藏身之处。 它拿着一把银长剑。 “它知道我们在这里!”Josh发出“吱吱”的响声。 鬼魂在每扇门前都停了下来，然后停在202房间门前。 那是我们的房间!丁克的想法。 “呸!”鬼魂呻吟道。 “Goooo hooooome !这地方太危险了!”丁克的每根头发都竖起来了。 他觉得很冷，好像有人打开了窗户。 鬼魂飘到了隔壁房间。 这次它呻吟道:“乔希，滚回家去。 在太晚之前离开吧!”

Outside Room 204, the ghost moaned its final message: "Ruth Rose, take your faaamily and leave nooow!" Then the ghost drifted back the way it had come. Seconds later, the hallway was empty. Ruth Rose jumped up and shoved the door open. "Come on, let's see where it went!" she said. "Who cares where it went!" Josh said. "I'm outta here!" "Come on, Josh," Dink said. "I promised Mr. and Mrs. Spivets we'd get rid of the ghost. And we only have till morning!" "But what if it gets rid of us instead!" Dink grabbed Josh's arm and started down the hall. He stopped and listened at Room 202. He heard his father snoring, and grinned. Suddenly Josh stuck his nose in the air. "What's that smell?" he said. Dink shrugged and kept walking. Ruth Rose had reached the end of the hall. "It disappeared," she said when they were standing together. "I smell it here, too," Josh said. "Smell what?" Ruth Rose asked.

204号房外，鬼魂呻吟着临终遗言:“露丝·罗斯，带上你的家人，马上离开!”然后鬼魂又沿着来时的路漂流回去了。 几秒钟后，走廊空无一人。 露丝·罗斯跳起来推开门。 “来吧，让我们看看它去哪儿了!”她说。 “谁在乎它去哪儿了!”杰克说。 “我要走了!”“来吧，乔希。”丁克说。 “我答应过斯比韦茨先生和太太，我们会把鬼赶走的。 我们只能等到明天早上了!”“但如果它把我们赶走了呢!”丁克抓住乔希的胳膊，朝大厅走去。 他停下来，在202房间听着。 他听到父亲的鼾声，笑了。 突然，乔希抬起头来。 “那是什么味道?”他说。 丁克耸耸肩，继续往前走。 露丝·罗斯走到了大厅的尽头。 “它消失了，”当他们站在一起时，她说。 “我在这儿也闻到了，”乔希说。 “什么味道?”露丝·罗斯问。

"I don't know," Josh said. "But it reminds me of something," Around the corner, the kids found a gray metal door. A red sign on the door read FIRE EXIT. "Maybe it went through there!" Ruth Rose whispered, pointing at the door. Dink held his breath, then slowly pushed the door open. The kids peered into the stairwell. They saw dark steps going up and down. "Should we split up and check it out?" Dink asked. "No way!" Josh said. "We stick together!" Dink grinned at his friend. "Still think the ghost is a joke?" Josh made a face at Dink. "Guys," Ruth Rose said. "How did the ghost know our names and which rooms we were in?" "Maybe it has supernatural powers!" Josh said. "Or maybe the ghost is really someone in the hotel," Dink added. "Someone who knows us!" Ruth Rose nodded. "I think the ghost came out tonight looking just for us." "You mean to scare us away, like it did the other people?" Dink asked. Ruth Rose nodded again.

“我不知道，”乔希说。 “但这让我想起了一件事。”在拐角处，孩子们发现了一扇灰色的金属门。 门上的红色牌子上写着“安全出口”。 “也许它从那里过去了!”露丝·罗斯指着门小声说。 丁克屏住呼吸，慢慢推开门。 孩子们向楼梯井里窥视。 他们看到黑色的台阶在上下移动。 “我们要不要分头去看看?”丁克问道。 “不可能!”杰克说。“我们团结在一起!”丁克朝他的朋友咧嘴一笑。 “你还认为鬼魂是个笑话吗?”乔希对丁克做了个鬼脸。 “伙计们，”露丝·罗斯说。“鬼魂是怎么知道我们的名字和我们住的房间的?”“也许它有超自然的力量!”杰克说。 丁克补充说:“或者这个鬼魂真的是酒店里的某个人。” “认识我们的人!”露丝·罗斯点点头。 “我想鬼魂今晚是专门来找我们的。” “你是想把我们吓跑，就像它把其他人吓跑一样?”丁克问道。 露丝·罗斯又点了点头。

"Well, it worked!" Josh said. "Let's hit the trail!" "Hey, what's this?" Ruth Rose asked. She plucked a white hair off the doorframe. Dink examined the hair. "The ghost had white hair like this," he said. "Yeah," Ruth Rose said, "but ghosts don't lose hair, people do!" Suddenly the door to Room 204 opened. Ruth Rose's father popped his head out. "Okay, you guys, time to hit the sack."

“嗯，它起作用了!”杰克说。 “我们上路吧!”“嘿，这是什么?”露丝·罗斯问。 她从门框上拔下一根白发。 丁克检查了头发。“鬼魂有这样的白发，”他说。 “是啊，”露丝·罗斯说，“但是鬼不会掉头发，人会掉!”突然，204房间的门开了。 露丝·罗斯的父亲探出头来。 “好了，各位，该睡觉了。”