Chapter 10

CHAPTER 10 Bae. The name, once so important in his life, now consumed Alistair with rage. His uncle Bae had been so close. Across the street! It wasn't the right time, Alistair reminded himself. He would have to wait. To plan. He turned in his seat to check on his flight companions. The Kabra siblings were absorbed in an old episode of The O.C. on their personalized seat-back flight screens, and the Cahills were doing the airline magazine crossword puzzle. Quietly, he unfolded the printout from the library. In his lifetime, Alistair had spent a fortune on private investigators looking for the man who had taken everything from him. Now the man's

第十章裴。这个名字，曾经在他的生命中如此重要，现在却让阿利斯泰尔怒火中烧。 他的叔叔裴很亲近。 街对面！现在不是时候，阿利斯泰尔提醒自己。 他将不得不等待。计划。 他在座位上转过头来查看他的同伴。 卡布拉兄妹沉迷于《橘子郡男孩》的一集老剧 在他们个性化的椅背飞行屏幕上，卡希尔夫妇正在做航空杂志上的填字游戏。 他悄悄地打开图书馆的打印件。 阿利斯泰尔生前花了一大笔钱请私家侦探寻找那个夺走他一切的人。 现在男人的

identity had been discovered. He had died of old age — a respectable elder who had secretly built his fortune on contract killings and kept a record of each one in a private vault. Apparently, he had kept everything. Alistair spread the printout on his tray table. Fingers shaking, he read it for what seemed like the hundredth time: OH INDUSTRIES April 22, 1948 Dear Brother will be arriving on 15:07 Delta flight, Idlewild Airport in New York, May 11. Booked into Room 1501 at Waldorf Astoria on Park Avenue. Scheduled to meet oar in front of hotel on May 12 at 7:15 P.M., after dinner, for trip to Broadway play at Imperial Theater. Driver is. Will take route across 45th Street. Upon completion of mission, payment will be forwarded by the expected means. Please confirm $5K US as proper amount. Destroy letter immediately. Sincerely, Bae Oh Senior Vice President

身份被发现了。 他是老死的——一个受人尊敬的老人，秘密地靠雇凶杀人发了财，并把每一个人的命案都记录在一个私人地窖里。 显然，他保留了一切。 阿利斯泰尔把打印出来的东西摊在他的小桌上。 他的手指颤抖着，好像已经读了一百遍了：OH INDUSTRIES公司1948年4月22日亲爱的哥哥将于5月11日15:07搭乘达美航空公司的航班抵达纽约艾德怀尔德机场。 订了公园大道华尔道夫酒店1501房间。 定于5月12日晚上7:15在酒店门口等桨，晚饭后，去帝国剧院看百老汇戏剧。 司机。将穿过45街。 任务完成后，付款将按预期方式支付。 请确认K US是合适的金额。 立即销毁信件。 尊敬的吴bae高级副总裁

Alistair forced himself to read it, fighting back nausea and anger. Five thousand dollars. His father's life for five thousand dollars. The details of what had happened in New York were hardwired into Alistair's brain. He still carried around with him the tattered, yellow news clipping of the murder: New York City, May 12, 1948: Korean industrialist Gordon Oh was killed at the intersection of Madison Avenue and 45th Street while being driven to the theater. Here is what the newspapers all said: There had been a break-in at Brooks Brothers, an alarm, the desperate robber running up the avenue with a gun and trying to commandeer a car stopped at a red light— his father's hired limousine. Mr. Oh had tried to subdue the man. He had struggled nobly but tragically lost his life. The gunman had slipped away and was never found. His dad had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. An unlucky accident. That was the official report. As a child, Alistair had never suspected foul play. But sometimes accidents were planned, and

阿利斯泰尔强忍着恶心和愤怒，强迫自己读了下去。 五千美元。他父亲的命换了五千美元。 在纽约发生的事情的细节深深地印在阿利斯泰尔的脑海里。 他仍然随身带着那张破旧的、发黄的谋杀案剪报：1948年5月12日，纽约：韩国实业家戈登·吴（Gordon Oh）在驱车前往剧院的途中，在麦迪逊大道和第45街的十字路口被杀。 报纸上都是这样说的：布鲁克斯兄弟公司被盗，有人报警，一个绝望的强盗拿着枪跑上大街，试图霸占一辆停在红灯前的车——他父亲租的豪华轿车。 吴先生曾试图制服那名男子。 他曾高尚地奋斗，但不幸地失去了生命。 持枪歹徒溜走了，再也没有被找到。 他的父亲在错误的时间出现在了错误的地方。 一次不幸的事故。这是官方报告。 作为一个孩子，阿利斯泰尔从来没有怀疑过谋杀。 但有时事故是计划好的

killers were hired. He had always been afraid of his uncle Bae Oh, his father's twin brother. Bae had grown up the lazy twin, the greedy slacker, repeatedly passed over for the head of the Ekaterina family, always under the shadow of the robust and well-loved Gordon. As an adult, Bae was all about foul play, as ruthless as a Kabra in his business dealings. Bae craved glory and riches— and the 39 Clues. Whoever stood in his way had to go. Even his own brother. It didn't matter that Gordon had a wife halfway across the world whose grief was so great that she needed to be hospitalized. Or a four-year-old boy whose heart that day had been ripped out. A boy who was packed off, crying and alone, to be brought up by a man with a heart of glass, to be ignored and mocked his whole life. His uncle Bae Oh. The murderer's boss. Alistair glanced at the Cahill children. They were squabbling over the answer to a crossword puzzle now, the argument turning into a joke, the boy making up a nonsense word— a babble of

杀手被雇佣了。他一直很害怕他的叔叔裴欧，他父亲的孪生兄弟。 裴俊浩从小就是一个懒惰的双胞胎，一个贪婪的懒汉，多次被选为叶卡捷琳娜家族的首领，总是在强壮而受人爱戴的戈登的阴影下。 作为一个成年人，裴俊浩充满了邪恶，在他的商业交易中就像卡布拉一样无情。 裴渴望荣耀和财富——以及39条线索。 谁挡了他的路，谁就得走。 甚至他自己的兄弟。戈登有个远在地球另一端的妻子，她非常悲伤，需要住院治疗，但这并不重要。 或者是一个四岁的男孩，那天他的心脏被挖了出来。 一个男孩被打包带走，独自哭泣，被一个铁石心肠的男人抚养长大，一生都被忽视和嘲笑。 他的叔叔裴欧。凶手的老板。 阿利斯泰尔瞥了卡希尔家的孩子们一眼。 他们正在为一个填字游戏的答案而争吵，争论变成了一个笑话，男孩编了一个毫无意义的词——胡言乱语

nonsense words, a burst of laughter. Even now they sounded as they did eleven years ago, as a newborn and a three-year-old. Back when Alistair had made his promise to Hope and Arthur. A promise that had been nearly impossible to keep. The children wouldn't remember, of course. But he did. And now the couple was gone, for the same reason he'd lost his own parents. For the Clues. He sighed. At least the children had each other. All Alistair could hope for was revenge. His fingers shook as he folded the sheet and put it back into his pocket. On this flight, he knew he would not sleep.

废话连篇，一阵哄堂大笑。 即使是现在，他们的声音听起来也和11年前一样，当时他们还是一个新生儿和一个三岁的孩子。 回到阿利斯泰尔对霍普和亚瑟许下承诺的时候。 一个几乎不可能兑现的承诺。 当然，孩子们不会记得。 但他做到了。现在这对夫妇走了，和他失去父母的原因一样。 寻找线索。他叹了口气。至少孩子们还有彼此。 阿利斯泰尔唯一的希望就是复仇。 他把床单叠好放回口袋时，手指在颤抖。 在这次飞行中，他知道自己无法入睡。