Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3 "What?!" Daniel and Lydia shouted at the same time. Their voices always sounded most alike when they were startled. Wallis walked over to the table. She squatted next to Abbi to see the screen. "Inside where?" Wallis asked. Abbi zoomed in on the map. "I can't tell for sure, but see this blue dot? That's where the sound came from." The dot was inside a square on the map. She pointed at the shape. "And this is the castle. So the sound definitely came from somewhere in or near the house!"

第三章“什么？！”丹尼尔和莉迪亚同时喊道。 当他们受到惊吓时，他们的声音听起来总是非常相似。 沃利斯走向桌子。 她蹲在阿比旁边看屏幕。 “在哪里?”沃利斯问道。 阿比放大了地图。 “我不能肯定，但是看到这个蓝点了吗？” 这就是声音的来源。” 这个点在地图上的一个正方形里面。 她指着那个形状。“这就是城堡。 所以声音肯定来自房子里或附近的某个地方！”

Wallis stood and took a sip of her fresh tea. "Emory Scott strikes again," she said in a dramatic voice. "Who?" Daniel asked. Abbi rolled her eyes and returned her attention to the app. "He's the one who built this place. Mom thinks his ghost still lives here." Lydia squeaked, "That sound was a ghost?" Wallis laughed and gave Lydia a gentle pat on the shoulder. "More likely there was just something wrong with Abbi's recording app." Abbi frowned. "There's nothing wrong with my app!"

沃利斯站起来，喝了一口新鲜的茶。 “埃默里·斯科特又来了，”她用一种戏剧性的声音说。 “谁?”丹尼尔问。阿比翻了个白眼，又把注意力转回到了应用程序上。 “他是建造这个地方的人。 妈妈认为他的鬼魂还住在这里。” 莉迪亚尖叫道：“那声音是鬼的声音？”沃利斯笑了，轻轻地拍了拍丽迪雅的肩膀。 “更有可能是阿比的录音应用出了问题。” 艾比皱起了眉头。“我的应用程序没有任何问题！”

Wallis shrugged. "Then it was a plane. Or maybe…" She headed toward the living room, where Barkley was still hiding from the scary noise. "Maybe Emory just wanted to say hi." She grinned and went back to her office. The three kids were left in the kitchen with Wallis's words and the memory of the haunting noise echoing around them.

沃利斯耸耸肩。“然后是一架飞机。 或者……”她朝客厅走去，巴克利仍然躲在那里躲避可怕的噪音。 “也许埃默里只是想跟你打个招呼。” 她咧嘴一笑，回到了自己的办公室。 三个孩子被留在厨房里，沃利斯的话和萦绕在他们周围的挥之不去的噪音萦绕在他们的记忆中。

After finishing their fruit, they settled in Abbi's room. It was originally a guest room, so it was smaller than the other bedrooms. But it was the only one on the first floor! And since the elevator broke so often, it was easier for her to sleep down here. She liked her room. It was cozy. The blue walls were covered with posters and framed drawings of animals. Leafy plants dotted the shelves around the room. And strings of twinkling fairy lights hung above her bed!

吃完水果后，他们在阿比的房间里安顿下来。 它最初是一间客房，所以比其他卧室要小。 但它是一楼唯一的一个！因为电梯经常坏，所以她更容易睡在下面。 她喜欢她的房间。那里很舒适。 蓝色的墙上贴满了海报和带框的动物图画。 房间里的架子上点缀着绿叶植物。 一串串闪烁的仙女灯挂在她的床上！

But sometimes she wished she could be on one of the upper floors like her mom. She wanted to have a nice view of the forest on one side or the ocean on the other. Down here, all she could see out her window was the driveway. "Do you really think that sound we heard was just a plane?" Lydia asked. Daniel sat down next to his sister on Abbi's bed. "You're still thinking about that?" he asked. "You aren't?" Lydia shuddered. "I'll probably have nightmares about that sound!" Abbi looked at her phone. She'd been thinking about the mysterious sound, too. "I guess it could have been a plane," she said uncertainly. "But an airplane would have created nonstop sound over a much longer period of time." Lydia hopped off the bed. "Then it is a ghost!" Barkley startled at the outburst. He was curled up on his doggie bed next to Abbi's desk. Daniel laughed. "The only options are plane or ghost?"

但有时她也希望自己能像妈妈一样住在楼上。 她想看到一边是森林，另一边是海洋的美景。 在这里，她只能看到窗外的车道。 “你真的认为我们听到的声音只是一架飞机吗？”利迪娅问。 丹尼尔在阿比的床上挨着他妹妹坐下。 “你还在想这件事吗？”他问。 “你不是?”莉迪亚战栗。 “我可能会因为那个声音做噩梦！”阿比看了看她的手机。 她也一直在想那个神秘的声音。 “我猜可能是一架飞机，”她不确定地说。 “但飞机会在更长的时间内制造不间断的声音。” 莉迪亚跳下床。“那么它就是个鬼！”巴克利被他的爆发吓了一跳。 他蜷缩在阿比桌子旁边的狗床上。 丹尼尔笑了。“唯一的选择是飞机还是幽灵？”