Chapter 8

CHAPTER EIGHT A burly policeman came in, followed by another. The second one carried a bundle in a shawl! Timmy leapt up to it at once, whining! 'Oh! It wasn't a baby, then!' cried Anne, and the policeman smiled and shook his head. He pulled the shawl away- and there, fast asleep, was a tiny white Pekinese, its little snub nose tucked into the shawl!

第八章一个魁梧的警察走了进来，后面跟着另一个。 第二个拿着一个包裹在披肩里的东西！蒂米立刻跳了上去，呜咽着！“啊!那就不是婴儿了！安妮叫道，警察微笑着摇了摇头。 他把披肩拉开——在那里，一只白色的小北京狗正熟睡着，它的小鼻梁塞在披肩里！

'Oh- the darling!' said Anne. 'Wake up, you funny little thing!'

“啊——亲爱的！”安妮说。 “醒醒，你这个有趣的小东西！”

'It's been doped,' said the policeman. I suppose they were afraid of it whining in the night and giving its hiding-place away!' 'Tell us what happened, begged Dick. 'Get down, Timmy. George, he's getting too excited- he wants the Peke to play with him!' 'Acting on your information we went to Seagreen, said the policeman. 'We asked the porter what people got out of the train this evening, and if anyone carried a baby- and he said four people got out- and two of them were a man and woman, and the woman carried a baby in a shawl. He told us who they were- so away we went to the cottage...' 'Woof,' said Timmy interrupting, trying to get at the tiny dog again, but nobody took any notice of him.

“它被下了药，”警察说。 我想他们是怕它在夜里呜咽，暴露它的藏身之处！“告诉我们发生了什么事，”迪克恳求道。 “下来，蒂米。乔治，他太兴奋了——他想让派克和他一起玩！“根据你的消息，我们去了西格林，”警察说。 “我们问搬运工今天晚上谁下了火车，有没有人抱着一个婴儿——他说有四个人下了火车——其中两个人是一男一女，那个女人抱着一个裹着围巾的婴儿。 他告诉了我们他们是谁——于是我们就去了小屋……“汪，”蒂米打断了他的话，想再去抓那只小狗，但是没有人理睬他。

'We looked through the back window of the cottage, went on the policeman, 'and spotted what we wanted at once! The woman was giving the dog a drink of milk in a saucer- and she must have put some drug into it, because the little thing dropped down and fell asleep at once while we were watching.' 'So in we went, and that was that,' said the second policeman, smiling round. 'The couple were so scared that they blurted out everything- how someone had paid them to steal the dog, and how they had taken their own baby's shawl, wrapped round a cushion- and had stolen the dog quite easily when the judging of the Alsatians was going on. They wrapped the tiny dog in the shawl, just as you thought, and caught the next train home!'

我们从小屋的后窗往外看，警察接着说，“马上就发现了我们要找的东西！”那个女人正在用一个碟子给狗喝牛奶——她一定是在里面放了些药，因为在我们看着的时候，这小东西掉了下来，马上就睡着了。“我们就这样进去了，事情就是这样，”第二个警察微笑着说。 “这对夫妇吓坏了，他们把一切都说了出来——有人付钱让他们偷狗，他们拿了自己孩子的围巾，包在垫子上——在阿尔萨斯人的审判进行时，他们轻而易举地偷走了狗。” 正如你所想的那样，他们把小狗裹在披肩里，然后搭下一班火车回家了！”

'I wish I'd gone to Seagreen Village with you,' said Julian. 'Do you know who told the couple to steal the little dog?' 'Yes- we're off to interview him now! He'll be most surprised to see us,' said the burly policeman. 'We've informed the owner that we've got her prize dog all right- but she feels so upset about it she can't collect it till the

“我真希望当时和你一起去了海绿村，”朱利安说。 “你知道是谁指使这对夫妇去偷小狗的吗？”“是的——我们现在就去采访他！”“他看到我们会大吃一惊的。”魁梧的警察说。 “我们已经通知了狗主人，我们已经找到了她的奖狗，但她很难过，要等到第二天才能来领奖。