Chapter 2

Chapter Two IN WHICH Several Things Are Taken, Including a Test Thimbletack sprinted across the lawn, hopping from shadow to shadow. Mallory was still fencing against the wall of the old carriage house, her back to where Simon had been. Jared walked up behind her and tugged the headphones off her ears by the cord. She turned, foil pointing at his chest. "What?" "Simon's been grabbed by goblins!"

西姆布兰蒂克从一个影子跳到另一个影子，飞快地跑过草坪。 马洛里仍然靠着旧马车房的墙，背对着西蒙去过的地方。 杰瑞德走到她身后，拽着耳机线把耳机从她耳朵上扯下来。 她转过身，用剑指着他的胸膛。 “什么?”“西蒙被半兽人抓走了！”

Mallory's eyes narrowed. She looked around the lawn. "Goblins?" "Must make haste." Thimbletack's voice was as shrill as a bird's. "No time to waste." "Come on." Jared gestured toward the carriage house where the little brownie was waiting. "Before they get us." "SIMON!" Mallory shouted. "Shut up." Jared took her arm and yanked her into the carriage house, closing the door after them. "They're going to hear you." "Who is going to hear me?" Mallory demanded. "Goblins?" Jared ignored her. Neither one of them had been inside the building before. It smelled of gasoline and mildew. A tarp covered an old black car. Shelves lined the walls, cluttered with metal tins and mason jars half-filled with brown and yellow liquids. There were even stalls where horses must have been stabled long ago. A stack of boxes and leather trunks occupied one corner.

马洛里眯起眼睛。她环视了一下草坪。 “小妖精?”“必须快点。” 西姆布兰蒂克的声音尖得像鸟叫。 “没时间浪费了。”“来吧。” 杰瑞德指了指马车房，小布朗尼正等在那里。 “在他们抓到我们之前。”“西蒙!”马洛里喊道。 “闭嘴。”杰瑞德抓住她的胳膊，把她拽进马车房，随手把门关上。 “他们会听到的。” “谁会听到我说话呢？”马洛里问道。 “小妖精?”杰瑞德不理她。 他们俩之前都没进过这栋楼。 它散发着汽油和霉菌的味道。 一块篷布盖着一辆旧的黑色汽车。 墙上排列着架子，杂乱地摆放着金属罐和石罐，里面半装着棕色和黄色的液体。 甚至还有马厩，那里一定是很久以前养过马的。 一个角落里放着一堆箱子和皮箱。

Thimbletack hopped up on a can of paint and pointed toward the boxes. "Hurry! Hurry! If they come, we must scurry!" "If Simon got grabbed by goblins, why are we rooting through garbage?" Mallory asked. "Here," Jared said, holding out the book and pointing to the picture of the stone. "We're looking for this." "Oh, great," she said. "It'll be so easy to find in this mess." "Just hurry," said Jared. The first trunk contained a saddle, a few bridles, some combs, and other equipment for taking care of horses. Simon would have been fascinated. Jared and Mallory opened the next box together. It was full of old, rusted tools. Then they found a few boxes stuffed with tableware wrapped in dirty towels. "Aunt Lucinda must have never thrown out anything," Jared said. "Here's another one." Mallory sighed as she dragged a small wooden crate over to her brother.

西姆布兰蒂克跳上一罐油漆，指着那些盒子。 “快点!快点!如果他们来了，我们必须赶快！”“如果西蒙被妖精抓走了，我们为什么还要翻垃圾”马洛里问道。 “给你。”贾里德说，把书递过来，指着石头的照片。 “我们正在寻找这个。”“哦，太好了，”她说。 “在这乱糟糟的地方很容易找到。” “快点。”杰瑞德说。第一个箱子里装着一个马鞍、一些缰绳、一些梳子和其他照料马匹的设备。 西蒙一定会被迷住的。 贾里德和马洛里一起打开了下一个盒子。 里面全是陈旧生锈的工具。 然后他们发现了几个盒子，里面塞满了用脏毛巾包着的餐具。 “露辛达姨妈一定从来没有扔过任何东西。” “这里还有一个。”马洛里叹了口气，把一个小木箱拖到哥哥面前。

The top slid open in a dusty groove, revealing wadded up newspapers. "Look how old these are," Mallory said. "This one says 1910." "I didn't even think there were newspapers in 1910," said Jared. Inside each crumpled piece of paper was a different item. Jared unrolled one to discover a pair of metal binoculars. In another he found a

顶盖在一个积满灰尘的槽里滑开，露出揉成一团的报纸。 马洛里说：“看看这些东西有多古老。” “这上面写着1910年。”“我甚至不认为1910年有报纸，”贾里德说。 每张皱巴巴的纸里都有不同的东西。 杰瑞德打开一个，发现了一副金属双筒望远镜。 在另一个地方，他发现了一个

magnifying glass. The print below it was made huge. "This one's from 1927. They're all different." Jared picked up another page. "Girl drowns in empty well.' Weird." "Hey, look at this." Mallory straightened one of the sheets. "1885. 'Local boy lost.' Says he was eaten by a bear. Look at the surviving brother's name! 'Arthur Spiderwick.' "There it is! This is his!" Thimbletack said, climbing into the box. When he resurfaced, he held the strangest eyepiece Jared had ever seen.

放大镜。它下面的印花做得很大。 “这张是1927年的。他们都不一样。” 杰瑞德又翻了一页。 “女孩在空井里淹死了。”奇怪的。” “嘿，看看这个。”马洛里整理了一张床单。 1885。“本地男孩迷路了。”说他被熊吃了。 看看那个幸存的兄弟的名字！“亚瑟13岁。“在那儿！”这是他的！”西姆布兰蒂克说着，爬进了箱子。 当他重新浮出水面时，他拿着Jared从未见过的最奇怪的目镜。

It covered only a single eye and attached to the face with an adjustable nose clip as well as two leather straps and a chain. Backed in stiff, brown leather, four metal clamps waited to hold a lens of some kind. But the strangest thing about the device was the series of magnifying lenses on movable metal arms. The strangest eyepiece

它只遮住一只眼睛，用一个可调节的鼻夹、两条皮带和一条链子固定在脸上。 在坚硬的棕色皮革背后，四个金属夹子等着夹住某种镜头。 但这款设备最奇怪的地方是安装在可移动金属臂上的一系列放大镜。 最奇怪的目镜