Chapter 15

Chapter 15 Dan thought Nellie was going to kill them. He'd never seen her face that shade of red before. "You did what?" She paced their tiny hotel room. "Two hours, you said. Two hours. And I was standing outside the hotel for, like, ever, and you didn't come. You didn't call. I thought you were dead!" She shook her iPod for emphasis and the loose earbuds danced around. "Our phone didn't work," Amy said sheepishly. "We got sidetracked," Dan added. "There was this concussive grenade, and a cement truck, and a battery. And a loaf of bread." Dan was pretty sure that covered all the important details, but Nellie looked like she didn't understand.

丹以为内利要杀了他们。 他以前从未见过她的脸那么红。 “你做了什么？”她在旅馆的小房间里踱来踱去。 “两个小时，你说的。两个小时。 我在酒店外面站了好久，你都没来。 你没打电话。我还以为你死了呢！”为了强调，她摇晃着iPod，松动的耳塞在周围跳来跳去。 “我们的电话坏了，”艾米不好意思地说。 “我们偏离了方向，”丹补充道。 “有一个震荡手榴弹，一辆水泥车，还有一个电池。 还有一条面包。”丹很确定这涵盖了所有重要的细节，但内莉看起来不明白。

"Start from the beginning," she said. "And no lies." Maybe it was just because he was too tired to lie, but Dan told her the whole story — even about the thirty-nine clues — with Amy filling in the stuff he forgot. "So you almost died," Nellie said in a small voice. "Those jerks were going to pour cement on you." "Maybe a little cement," Dan said. "What did the inscription say?" Nellie asked. Dan didn't know any French, but he'd automatically memorized the words on the marble slab. He repeated them to Nellie. "'Here lie Amy and Dan Cahill,'" she translated, "'who stuck their noses into the wrong people's business.'" "It was Irina Spasky's fault!" Dan said. "She tricked us into going there. The whole thing was a setup." "And we can't even pay you," Amy added miserably. "We don't have enough money for the flight home. I'm … I'm really sorry, Nellie." Nellie stood very still. Her glitter eye shadow

“从头开始，”她说。 “不许说谎。”也许只是因为他太累了，不想撒谎，但丹把整个故事都告诉了她——甚至是关于三十九条线索的——艾米把他忘记的东西补上。 “所以你差点就死了，”内莉小声说。 “那些混蛋会往你身上泼水泥的。” “也许有一点水泥，”丹说。 “碑文上写了什么？”内莉问道。 丹不懂法语，但他自动记住了大理石板上的单词。 他又对耐莉重复了一遍。 “这里躺着艾米和丹·卡希尔，”她翻译道，“他们多管闲事。“这是伊琳娜·斯帕斯基的错！”丹说。 “她骗我们去那里。 整件事都是一个圈套。” “我们甚至付不起你的钱，”艾米痛苦地补充道。 “我们没有足够的钱坐飞机回家。 我……我真的很抱歉，内莉。” 内莉一动不动地站着。她的闪光眼影

was red today, which made her eyes look even angrier. Her arms were crossed over her T-shirt, which showed a picture of a screaming punk rocker. All in all, she looked pretty scary. Then she grabbed Amy and Dan and hugged them fiercely. She knelt down so she was looking them in the eyes. "I've got some credit left on my MasterCard. We'll be fine." Dan was confused. "But … you're not going to kill us?" "I'm going to help you, stupid." Nellie shook his shoulders gently. "Nobody messes with my babysitees." "Au pairees," Dan corrected. "Whatever! Now get some sleep. Tomorrow we're going to slap some people senseless." Maison des Gardons did not mean the house of gardens. Apparently, gardons meant roaches. Dan found this out because Nellie told him, and because he heard scuttling sounds along the floor all night long. He wished Saladin were there. The cat would've had a great time playing jungle

今天是红色的，这使她的眼睛看起来更生气了。 她的双臂交叉在她的t恤上，t恤上有一张尖叫的朋克摇滚歌手的照片。 总而言之，她看起来相当可怕。 然后她抓住艾米和丹，使劲地拥抱他们。 她跪下来，看着他们的眼睛。 “我的万事达信用卡上还有一些余额。 我们会没事的。”丹很困惑。 “但是……你不会杀了我们吧？”“我要帮你，笨蛋。” 内利轻轻地摇了摇他的肩膀。 “没人敢惹我的保姆。” “互惠生，”丹纠正道。 “不管!现在去睡觉吧。 明天我们要把一些人打晕。” Maison des Gardons并不是指花园的房子。 显然，花园意味着蟑螂。 丹发现这件事是因为内莉告诉他的，而且他整晚都听到地板上传来啪啦啪啦的声音。 他希望萨拉丁也在。 这只猫会玩丛林游戏玩得很开心

stalker. In the morning, everybody looked bleary-eyed, but they showered and changed clothes. Nellie came back from the corner café with coffee for herself, hot chocolate for Dan and Amy, and pain au chocolat for all of them. Dan figured any country that ate chocolate for breakfast couldn't be all bad. "So," Dan said, "can I get some more grenades today?" "No!" Amy said. "Dan, you're lucky it was only concussive. You could've wiped out the whole Holt family." "And that would've been bad because…?" "Okay, knock it off," Nellie said. "The important thing is you guys are safe." Amy picked at her croissant. She looked pale this morning. Her hair was a tangled mess. "Dan … I'm sorry about last night. I — I panicked. I almost got us killed." Dan had pretty much forgotten that part. He'd been annoyed with her at the time, but it was hard to stay mad when Amy looked so miserable and apologized. Plus she'd done that cool thing

跟踪狂。早上，每个人看起来都睡眼惺忪，但他们洗了澡，换了衣服。 内莉从街角的咖啡馆回来了，给自己拿了咖啡，给丹和艾米拿了热巧克力，给他们所有人都拿了巧克力。 丹认为任何一个早餐吃巧克力的国家都不可能一无是处。 “那么，”丹说，“我今天能再买些手榴弹吗？”“不!”艾米说。 “丹，你很幸运只是脑震荡。 你差点把整个霍尔特家族都毁了。” “那就糟了，因为……？”“好吧，别闹了，”内莉说。 “重要的是你们是安全的。” 艾米啃着她的羊角面包。 今天早上她脸色苍白。 她的头发乱成一团。 “丹……昨晚的事我很抱歉。 我，我慌了。我差点害死我们俩。” 丹几乎忘了这部分。 他当时很生她的气，但当艾米看起来如此痛苦并道歉时，他很难继续生气。 而且她还做了件很酷的事

with the battery, which had kind of made up for her freaking out. "Don't worry about it," he said. "But if it happens again—" "Hey, if we let Irina lure us into a trap again, we're stupider than the Holts." Amy didn't look very comforted. "What I don't understand is the man in black. Why was he there last night? And if the Holts started the fire at the mansion and set up the museum explosion —" "Then what was the man in black doing in both places?" Dan finished. "And why did Irina have a photo of him?" He waited for Amy to come up with one of her "oh-I-did-a-book-report-on-that-last-year" answers, but she just kept frowning at her breakfast. "Maybe you guys should concentrate on where we go next," Nellie advised. Amy took a deep breath. "I think I know where to go. Dan, can I use your laptop?" He stared at her, because Amy didn't like computers. But finally he brought it over and

用电池，算是弥补了她的惊慌。 “别担心，”他说。 “但如果再发生这种事——”“嘿，如果再让艾琳娜把我们引入陷阱，我们就比霍尔特一家还蠢了。” 艾米看起来不太舒服。 “我不明白的是那个黑衣人。 他昨晚为什么在那儿？ 如果是霍尔特夫妇放的火，又策划了博物馆的爆炸——”“那那个黑衣人在这两个地方干什么？”丹完成。 “为什么伊琳娜有他的照片？”他等着艾米拿出一个“哦，我对去年的事做过读书报告”的答案，但她一直在吃早饭时皱着眉头。 “也许你们应该把注意力集中在我们接下来要去的地方，”内莉建议道。 艾米深吸了一口气。“我想我知道该去哪里。 丹，我能用一下你的笔记本电脑吗？”他盯着她，因为艾米不喜欢电脑。 但最后他把它带了过来

Amy started searching the Internet. In no time, she grimaced and turned the screen for them to see. The picture showed a pile of bones in a dark stone room. "I've suspected for a while," Amy said, "but I was hoping I was wrong because it's risky. The Maze of Bones. That's what Mom's note said in Poor Richard's Almanack. We have to explore the Catacombs." "Is that where they keep the cats?" Dan asked. It seemed like a perfectly reasonable question to him, but Amy gave him a "you're-such-adummy" look. "The Catacombs are an underground maze," she said. "I told you Paris is riddled with caves and tunnels, right? All the limestone they used to build the city, ever since the Roman days, they dug from underground, and it left a whole network of empty spaces. Some are just pits, like the one we fell in last night." "And some are networks of tunnels," Nellie said. "Yeah, I remember hearing about this. And they're filled with bones, right?" "I want a room decorated with bones!" Dan

艾米开始上网搜索。 很快，她做了个鬼脸，把屏幕转过来给他们看。 这张照片显示了一间黑暗的石头房间里的一堆骨头。 “我怀疑了一段时间，”艾米说，“但我希望我是错的，因为这很冒险。 骨头迷宫。这是妈妈在《穷理查年鉴》上的留言。 我们必须探索地下墓穴。” “那是他们养猫的地方吗？”丹问道。 对他来说，这似乎是一个完全合理的问题，但艾米给了他一个“你太假了”的表情。 “地下墓穴是一个地下迷宫，”她说。 “我告诉过你巴黎到处都是洞穴和隧道，对吧？” 从罗马时代开始，他们用来建造这座城市的所有石灰岩，都是从地下挖出来的，留下了一整片空地。 有些只是坑，就像我们昨晚掉进去的那个。” “有些是隧道网络，”内利说。 “是的，我记得听说过这件事。 里面都是骨头，对吧？”“我想要一个用骨头装饰的房间！”丹