Chapter 15

CHAPTER 15 The door clanged open. Lights went on. "Dan? Amy? Kiddos?" "It's Nellie!" Amy cried. "We're here!" Nellie rushed down the second set of stairs into the burial chamber. She threw herself at them and gave them a fierce hug. "Will you just stop doing this?" she demanded. "My nerves are shot! You could have been down here for, like, eternity!" Suddenly, Theo came rushing down toward them. "Amy? Dan? Nellie!" Theo grabbed Nellie by the elbows. "Are you okay?" "I'm fine," Nellie said. "Amy and I are fine, thanks," Dan said. "I was looking everywhere for you!" Theo said

门哐当一声开了。 灯亮了。“丹?艾米吗? 出头的?”“这是内莉!”艾米哭了。 “我们在这里!”内利冲下第二层楼梯，进入墓室。 她扑向他们，狠狠地拥抱了他们一下。 “你能不能别这样了？”她要求道。 “我的神经崩溃了！”你可能会在这里呆上一辈子！”突然，西奥向他们冲了过来。 ”艾米吗?丹?内莉!”西奥抓住内莉的胳膊肘。 “你还好吗？”“我很好，”内莉说。 “艾米和我都很好，谢谢，”丹说。 “我到处找你！”西奥说

frantically to Nellie. "Are you certain you're all right?" "Perfectly okay," Dan said. "We were just shut up in a tomb. No problem." "What do you mean, Theo?" Nellie asked. "I woke up and saw Amy and Dan were gone. I knew they would head back here. Basically, I just pick the thing that would freak me the most, and they do it." Theo wiped at the sweat on his forehead. "I got a text message on my phone that you were in trouble. I've been looking everywhere." "Did you see anyone when you entered the tomb?" Amy asked Nellie. Nellie shook her head. "I just rushed down the stairs when I heard you calling." "We heard someone," Dan said. "A sort of shuffling noise." Theo tried not to smile. "A mummy?" "We didn't imagine it," Dan said, annoyed. "Whoever it was could have hidden in one of the side chambers, then gone out after Nellie came down to the burial chamber."

疯狂地对内莉说。“你确定你没事吗？”“很好，”丹说。 “我们只是被关在一个坟墓里。 没问题。”“你是什么意思，西奥？”内莉问道。 “我醒来发现艾米和丹都不见了。 我知道他们会回到这里。 基本上，我只是选择最让我害怕的事情，他们就会这么做。” 西奥擦了擦额头上的汗。 “我手机上收到一条短信，说你有麻烦了。 我到处都找遍了。” “你进坟墓的时候看见什么人了吗？”艾米问内利。 内莉摇了摇头。“听到你叫我，我就冲下楼去了。” “我们听到有人说话，”丹说。 “一种拖沓的声音。” 西奥强忍着不笑。“妈妈?”“我们没想到，”丹生气地说。 “不管是谁，他可能藏在旁边的一个房间里，然后在耐莉下楼到墓室后出去了。”

"Oh, no! Grace's guidebook!" Amy said. "I must have dropped it." They searched over the entire tomb but didn't find it. "Are you sure you had it?" Theo asked. "Of course she's sure," Dan said. "She never lets it out of her sight. You see?" He looked around the tomb. "Someone else was here." "And they took Grace's book," Amy said. Amy and Dan were silent as they sat in the cabin of the boat after dinner. Theo had suggested going to Luxor for dessert— he knew a "super" rooftop restaurant with a view of the river and the Temple of Luxor. But they couldn't think about dessert or great touristy views. Misery hung over Amy like a cloud. Dan knew just how she felt. The book was gone. It was the same way he'd felt after he lost the photograph of his parents back in the train tunnel in Paris. It was like he'd lost a piece of them. Now they'd lost a piece of Grace. A crucial piece. They kept losing piece after piece of their old

“哦,不!格蕾丝的指南!”艾米说。 “我一定是把它弄掉了。”他们搜遍了整个坟墓，但没有找到。 “你确定你拿着它吗？”西奥问道。 “她当然肯定，”丹说。 “她从不让它离开她的视线。 你看到了什么?”他环视了一下坟墓。 “有人来过这里。”“他们拿走了格蕾丝的书，”艾米说。 晚饭后，艾米和丹坐在船舱里，沉默不语。 西奥建议去卢克索吃甜点——他知道一家“超级”的屋顶餐厅，可以看到河流和卢克索神庙。 但他们不能考虑甜点或伟大的旅游景观。 痛苦像乌云一样笼罩着艾米。 丹知道她的感受。 书不见了。当他在巴黎的火车隧道里丢失了父母的照片时，他也有同样的感觉。 就好像他失去了他们的一部分。 现在他们失去了格蕾丝的一部分。 至关重要的一环。他们一件又一件地丢掉他们的旧衣服

lives. Falling down, falling away. Until you felt like you were on a world without gravity, and soon you'd have nothing to hold on to. Tonight, the motion of the boat made Dan feel almost dizzy. It was time to work, not think. Thinking about stuff too much didn't get you anywhere, no matter what his sister thought. Dan pushed a piece of paper toward Amy. "Here." He'd written out the hieroglyphs they'd found on the stairs of Nefertari's tomb. Amy didn't bother asking if he was sure he remembered them right. She sprang up and went over to the crammed bookshelves. She slid out a heavy book. "I saw this before. It's a hieroglyphic dictionary." They flipped through the book. It took them awhile to find the explanations for the hieroglyphs. Dan copied them down.

的生活。坠落，坠落。 直到你觉得自己生活在一个没有重力的世界，很快你就没有什么可以依靠的了。 今晚，船的运动让丹感到头晕目眩。 是时候工作了，而不是思考。 想太多对你没有任何好处，不管他妹妹怎么想。 丹把一张纸推给艾米。 “在这里。”他写下了他们在奈费尔塔丽墓的楼梯上发现的象形文字。 艾米也懒得问他是否记得没错。 她跳起来，走到拥挤的书架前。 她滑出一本厚厚的书。 “我以前见过这个。这是一本象形文字词典。” 他们迅速翻阅了这本书。 他们花了一段时间才找到象形文字的解释。 丹把它们抄了下来。

"River, cliff, island, obelisk," Dan said, pointing to each. "These are easy. But we can't find this last one." "Okay, here we are in Luxor," Amy said. "There's a river. There are cliffs. Islands in the river. Obelisks. But Katherine can't just be listing random things." "If Katherine made those glyphs," Dan said. "We don't know that for sure. She wouldn't know how to decode hieroglyphs in the sixteenth century. Hieroglyphs weren't translated until a couple of centuries later, when they found the Rosetta

“河流、悬崖、岛屿、方尖碑，”丹指着每一个说。 “这些都很简单。但是我们找不到最后一个。” “好了，我们到了卢克索，”艾米说。 “有一条河。那里有悬崖。 河中的岛屿。方尖碑。 但凯瑟琳不可能随便列举一些事情。” “如果那些象形文字是凯瑟琳画的，”丹说。 “我们不确定。 在16世纪，她不知道如何解读象形文字。 象形文字直到几个世纪后才被翻译出来，当时他们发现了罗塞塔

Stone." "These are pretty simple, though," Amy said. "They're pictograms— they mean what they are. She would have figured them out. We could, even without the dictionary. Except for this last one." "Things just aren't adding up," Dan said. "Maybe there is a fourth Sakhet. Remember that note we found from that guy Drovetti? He said the clue had been shipped to the palace of L." "Louis the Fourteenth, maybe," Amy said. "Versailles is right outside Paris." "Maybe we shouldn't be here at all," Dan said. "Some Lucian shipped the most important hint to Paris. This feels like it could be a dead end." Amy's gaze wandered to the porthole. "Dan? Did you notice that the lights of town are… kinda far away?" Dan stood up. "Our line came loose! We're going toward the middle of the river!" "Excellent work, homies!" Jonah Wizard's head appeared at the top of the steps leading to the deck. "Good lead. Paris is my city! They love me in Paris!"

石头。”“不过这些都很简单，”艾米说。 “它们是象形文字——它们意味着它们是什么。 她会发现的。 即使没有字典，我们也可以。 除了最后一个。” “事情就是没有进展，”丹说。 “也许还有第四个沙基特。 还记得我们从德罗维蒂那家伙那里找到的纸条吗？ 他说线索已经运到了l宫。” “也许是路易十四，”艾米说。 “凡尔赛宫就在巴黎外面。” “也许我们根本就不应该在这里，”丹说。 某个卢西安人把最重要的线索运到了巴黎。 感觉这可能是一条死胡同。” 艾米的目光转向舷窗。 “丹?你有没有注意到镇上的灯光……有点远？”丹站了起来。 “我们的绳子松了！”我们要到河中央去！”“干得好，伙计们！”大法师约拿的头出现在通向甲板的台阶顶上。 “好领导。巴黎是我的城市！巴黎的人都爱我！”