Chapter 28

CHAPTER 28 Sinead pulled away from Hamilton, but then the whole group surrounded her. Dan snatched the night-vision goggles from her head and peered through them toward the ledge Sinead had swung from. "Her brothers," he gasped. "If they're right behind her—" "Oh, no," Sinead said, trying for a carefree tone. "I left Ned and Ted back in Stratford. It only takes one Starling to outsmart you losers." She hoped no one could hear the way her voice trembled, the way she had to hold herself back from saying, I left them where they'd be safe. I knew this would be the most dangerous part of the clue hunt. She could feel the danger in everyone's cold stares. "Let's tie her up and leave her behind," Ian said.

第二十八章西尼德从汉密尔顿身边走开了，但随后整个人群都围住了她。 丹从她头上夺过夜视镜，透过夜视镜往西妮德荡过的窗台上看。 “她的兄弟们，”他喘着气说。 “如果他们就在她后面——”“哦，不，”西尼德说，努力装出一副无忧无虑的语气。 “我把奈德和泰德留在了斯特拉特福德。 只需要一个星城就能比你们这些废柴聪明。” 她希望没人能听到她颤抖的声音，她不得不忍住没说：“我把他们留在了安全的地方。” 我知道这将是寻找线索中最危险的部分。 她能从每个人冰冷的目光中感觉到危险。 “我们把她绑起来，把她留在这里，”伊恩说。

"But if her brothers do come and rescue her…" Natalie began. "You don't know if I'm lying or not, do you?" Sinead challenged. She waited for everyone to break out fighting, as they had back at the Globe. That way, she could just slip past them. But the rest of the group just stood frozen, gazing suspiciously at her and each other. At least they're too suspicious of each other to gang up on me, Sinead thought. "How'd you get here, anyhow?" Dan challenged. "I solved the hint from the Stratford church," Sinead said. "Unlike the rest of you, who just followed Amy and Dan." Everyone except Amy and Dan looked away guiltily. "Then I invented an ultralight plane to fly out here and land on the top of the cliff. I just had an intuition that I might need to include new technology for landing in such a tight space. After that, it was no big deal to reprogram the doorway to let me in." She decided not to mention that even though

“但是如果她的哥哥们来救她……”娜塔丽开始说。 “你不知道我是不是在撒谎，对吧？”辛妮挑战。 她等着大家爆发战斗，就像他们在环球剧院那样。 那样她就能从他们身边溜过去。 但其余的人只是呆呆地站在那里，怀疑地盯着她和彼此。 至少他们彼此太猜疑了，不会联合起来对付我，西尼德想。 “你到底是怎么到这儿来的？”丹的挑战。 “我解决了斯特拉特福德教堂的暗示，”西尼德说。 “不像你们其他人，只是跟着艾米和丹。” 除了艾米和丹，每个人都内疚地把目光移开。 “然后我发明了一架超轻型飞机，飞到这里，降落在悬崖顶上。 我只是有一种直觉，我可能需要包括在如此狭小的空间着陆的新技术。 在那之后，重新设置门让我进去就没什么大不了的了。” 她决定不提这件事，尽管

she was the one who'd stolen the computer disk in Stratford, Ted had figured it out. And Ned had invented the ultralight airplane long before the Clue hunt. And the bit about reprogramming the doorway was a complete lie, meant only to flush out whoever had left the carabiner clips there. Hamilton's face turned slightly red—Aha, Sinead thought. "Really, you're going to need my help going the rest of the way toward the prize," Sinead bragged. "Just look. There's a riddle right on that door that I bet none of the rest of you are going to be able to solve." She pointed to a sign she was sure no one else had noticed. It read: ON THIS ISLAND A FAMILY SPLIT APART. ON THIS ISLAND A FAMILY CAN REUNITE. "There's an extra syllable in the second line, if

她就是那个在斯特拉特福德偷了电脑磁盘的人，泰德已经发现了。 奈德早在寻找线索之前就发明了超轻型飞机。 关于重新设置门道的那部分完全是谎言，只是为了找出把锁扣留在那里的人。 汉密尔顿的脸微微变红了——啊哈，西尼德想。 “真的，你还需要我的帮助才能拿到奖品，”西尼德吹嘘道。 ”看看。那扇门上有个谜语，我敢打赌你们谁也猜不出来。” 她指着一个牌子，她确信没人注意到。 上面写着：在这个岛上，一个家庭破裂了。 在这个岛上，一家人可以团聚。 “第二行多了一个音节，如果

that's supposed to be poetry," Sinead said. "And an anagram of 'reunite' is 'uni-tree,' which is undoubtedly a botanical reference. And—" "Sinead, that's not a riddle," Amy said. "It's the truth. It's—it's what the Madrigals are hoping for." She pushed past Sinead and shoved the door open. "See?"

这应该是诗歌，”西尼德说。 ‘reunite’的变位词是‘uni-tree ’，这无疑是一个植物学参考。 还有——”“西尼德，这不是谜语，”艾美说。 “这是事实。这是牧歌乐队所希望的。” 她推开西尼德，推开门。 “看到了吗?”