Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5 Shocked, Nellie pushed her charges back down among the linen. "Uh — I'm sorry," she managed. "I thought the suite was empty. I'm supposed to bring fresh towels to the Wizards' room." "My dear young lady, this is the suite of his Highness the Grand Duke of Luxembourg." The man's lip curled slightly. "The American television actor is in the suite below — and a great fuss he made about that, I might add." Nellie began backing the cart toward the door. "Sorry, sir. I'll get out of your way." "A moment, if you please. Now that you are here, His Highness's bedchamber requires refreshing." Nellie continued backing away. "Well, I really should get down to the Wizards' …" "Nonsense. It will take but a moment. And

第五章内莉吓了一跳，把她的孩子又推回到了亚麻布里。 “呃——对不起。”她勉强说。 “我以为套房是空的。 我应该把干净的毛巾送到巫师的房间去。” “我亲爱的小姐，这是卢森堡大公殿下的侍从。” 那人的嘴唇微微翘起。 “这位美国电视演员住在楼下的套间里——我得补充一句，他为此大惊小怪。” 内莉开始把车倒向门口。 “对不起，先生。我给您让开。” “请稍等一下。既然你来了，殿下的卧房需要打扫一下。” 内莉继续往后退。 “好吧，我真的应该去巫师队……” 这只需要一会儿。 和

there are several other matters that require your attention. If you'll follow me to the bathroom …" "Coming," she called after him. She leaned down into the linen bin, thrust the key card into the nearest hand, and whispered, "When you hear my voice in the next room, get out of here!" "What about you?" Amy squeaked. "I can handle myself. You get the diary. I'll meet you back at our hotel. Be careful!" And she was gone. A moment later, they could hear her announcing loudly, "This bathroom is bigger than my whole apartment!" The sheets began flying, and Amy and Dan scrambled from the cart and slipped through the door into the hallway. "Jonah's one floor down," Dan rasped. They ran for the stairs. The door of suite 1600 was identical to its upstairs counterpart, except there was no crown. "Poor Jonah," Amy said sarcastically as they let themselves in with the key card. "He's really slumming it."

还有其他几件事需要你注意。 请跟我到洗手间去……”“来了，”她在他身后喊道。 她俯下身去，把钥匙卡塞到离她最近的人手里，低声说：“当你在隔壁房间听到我的声音时，马上离开这里！”“你呢？”艾米发出“吱吱”的响声。 “我能应付自己。你去拿日记。 我回酒店找你。 小心!”然后她就走了。 过了一会儿，他们听到她大声宣布：“这个浴室比我的整个公寓还大！”床单开始乱飞，艾米和丹从手推车上爬下来，溜进走廊。 “约拿在楼下，”丹粗声说。 他们朝楼梯跑去。1600号套房的门和楼上的一模一样，只是没有皇冠。 “可怜的约拿，”他们拿着钥匙卡开门进去时，艾米讽刺地说。 “他真的很穷。”

If the rooms were any less opulent than the Grand Duke's accomodations, Amy and Dan couldn't tell where corners had been cut. The suite was massive and elegantly decorated. The marble floor gleamed; the rich carpets were hand-woven and luxurious. Every vase and ashtray on every end table looked like it had been placed there by an artist. "Kind of makes our place in Boston seem like an outhouse," Dan observed. Amy sighed. "I don't care about the high life. But sometimes it bugs me just how rich the competition is." "Grace was rich." Dan's brow clouded as he remembered the fire that had destroyed their grandmother's mansion on the day of her funeral. "Anyway, I'd rather be poor and normal than a rich idiot like Jonah or the Cobras." "Yeah, but money is a big advantage in a contest like this," his sister argued bleakly. "It can open a lot of doors that we'll have to find another way around. We're really outclassed, Dan." "That's what cheating is for." He surveyed the

即使这些房间没有大公的住所那么豪华，艾米和丹也看不出哪里被偷工减料了。 这个套间很大，装饰得很雅致。 大理石地板闪闪发光；华丽的地毯是手工编织的，很豪华。 每个茶几上的每个花瓶和烟灰缸看起来都像是艺术家放在那里的。 “这让我们在波士顿的地方看起来像个外屋，”丹说。 艾米叹了口气。“我不在乎奢华的生活。 但有时竞争的激烈程度让我很困扰。” “格蕾丝很有钱。”当丹想起祖母葬礼那天那场大火烧毁了她的豪宅时，他的眉头蒙上了一层阴影。 “不管怎样，我宁愿做个普通的穷人，也不愿做乔纳或眼镜蛇乐队那样的有钱的白痴。” “是的，但在这样的比赛中，钱是一个很大的优势，”他的妹妹沮丧地说。 “它可以打开很多扇门，我们必须找到另一条路。 我们真的是出类拔萃，丹。” “这就是作弊的目的。” 他调查了一下

expansive parlor. "Now, if I was a stuck-up idiot with my head on a Pez dispenser, where would I hide the diary I jacked?" Amy smiled in spite of herself. "We'd better search the whole place." They began to comb the huge suite, looking under sofa cushions, in drawers, behind drapes, and through closets. "Hey, check it out." Dan reached into a small carton and withdrew a six-inch-tall action figure, Jonah Wizard in plasticized Phat Farm jeans and warm-up jacket. "Not a very good likeness," he commented. "He's much uglier in real life." "Put that back!" hissed Amy, rifling through a drawer. "It's bad enough we broke into his room. We don't need to steal his dumb toys." "It's for my collection," Dan protested. "He's got a whole box of them. Hey — this must be the one with the kung fu grip." He pressed the button and watched the tiny fist snap closed. "Whoa — no wonder it's being recalled! You could crack a walnut with this thing!" "Look!" Amy's eyes danced with excitement.

广阔的客厅。“现在，如果我是一个头顶着糖果盒的自大白痴，我会把我偷来的日记藏在哪里？”艾米不由自主地笑了。 “我们最好搜遍整个地方。” 他们开始梳理这个大套间，在沙发垫子下面、抽屉里、窗帘后面、壁橱里找。 “嘿，看看。”丹把手伸进一个小纸盒里，拿出一个六英寸高的人偶，乔纳·奇才穿着Phat Farm的塑化牛仔裤和热身夹克。 “不太像，”他评论道。 “他在现实生活中丑多了。” “把它放回去！”艾美嘶嘶地说，翻找着一个抽屉。 “我们闯进他的房间已经够糟糕的了。 我们不需要偷他那些愚蠢的玩具。” “这是给我收藏的，”丹抗议道。 “他有一整盒。 嘿——这一定是那个会功夫的。” 他按下按钮，看着小拳头啪的一声合上。 “哇——难怪它被召回了！”你可以用这东西敲开核桃！”“看!”艾米的眼睛兴奋得直跳。

She turned the toy around in Dan's hand. When the grip was activated, a sequence of red letters and numbers lit up on the back of the figure's headband. "GR63K1!" she read breathlessly. "It's some kind of secret code!" Dan snorted a laugh in her face. "For a straight- A student, you can be pretty dumb. Sure, it's a code — to download a free Jonah Wizard screen saver from his website! The commercials are all over TV back home." His sister reddened. "I guess I'm not as much of a couch potato as you," she mumbled in embarrassment, and returned her attention to the search. Dan stuffed the figure in his pocket and joined her. The suite had five rooms — the parlor, two bedrooms, a dressing chamber, and the kitchen. They went through every inch of the place, with no results. The master bedroom had a safe, but it was unlocked and empty. Even an examination of the kitchen and minibar revealed nothing. "You don't think he's got it with him, do you?" Dan asked in alarm.

她把丹手里的玩具转过来。 当手柄被激活时，一串红色字母和数字就会在这个人的发带后面亮起来。 “GR63K1!”她上气不接下气地念。 “这是某种密码！”丹冲她的脸哼了一声笑。 “作为一个优等生，你可能会很笨。 当然，这是一个代码-从他的网站下载一个免费的乔纳向导屏幕保护程序！我们家的电视上到处都是广告。” 他妹妹脸红了。“我想我不像你那样是个电视迷，”她尴尬地嘟囔着，然后又把注意力集中到搜索上了。 丹把雕像塞进口袋，和她走到一起。 这套套房有五个房间——客厅、两间卧室、一间化妆室和厨房。 他们把这个地方的每一寸地方都找遍了，没有结果。 主卧有个保险箱，但没锁，而且是空的。 甚至对厨房和小冰箱的检查也没有发现任何问题。 “你认为他不会把枪带在身上吧？”丹惊恐地问。

His sister shook her head. "You don't bring a hot item like that to a place where every TV camera in Europe is pointed at you. It's here. We just have to find it." "Where do we look?" Dan was running out of patience. "It's too dark, anyway! What's up with these fancy hotels putting twenty layers of drapes over all the windows?" He flipped a light switch. A vast crystal chandelier blazed overhead. Amy and Dan gasped. At the center of this confection of light hung a basket formed by ropes of crystals. There, dark against the brilliance, was the unmistakable silhouette of a book. "The diary!" they chorused. Dan ran for a chair. "Not high enough!" his sister barked. "Come help me with the table." They took the heavy glass table and hauled it under the chandelier. Dan climbed atop it, but he was still too short. "Hand me the chair." Soon, Amy was perched on the table, steadying the chair and her brother, who stood on tiptoe atop two phone books on the seat.

他的妹妹摇了摇头。 “你不能把这样一个热门项目带到一个欧洲所有电视摄像机都对着你的地方。 这里的。我们只需要找到它。” “我们往哪儿看？”丹快要失去耐心了。 “反正太黑了！”这些豪华旅馆为什么要在所有的窗户上贴上二十层窗帘？”他拨动电灯开关。 一盏巨大的水晶吊灯在头顶闪闪发光。 艾米和丹倒吸了一口冷气。在这束光的中央挂着一个由水晶绳组成的篮子。 在明亮的灯光下，有一本书的影子。 “日记！”他们齐声说。 丹跑去找一把椅子。“不够高！”他妹妹吼道。 “来帮我搬桌子。” 他们把沉重的玻璃桌子拖到枝形吊灯下。 丹爬到了上面，但他还是太矮了。 “把椅子递给我。”很快，艾米就坐在桌子上，扶稳了椅子和她哥哥，弟弟踮着脚尖站在座位上的两本电话簿上。