Chapter 13

CHAPTER 13 The delicious smells of good things cooking greeted Amy as she wearily pushed open the door to Shep's house. It had taken her over an hour to get back. Plenty of time for her to digest what had happened. But it still hadn't taken away her fear. It was still there in her stomach, a cold, hard ball. When she closed the door, she began to shake. Now that she was safe, the horror of what had happened truly sank in. What if Hamilton hadn't saved her? She saw herself falling into that water, saw the sharks circling with their dead black eyes…. She felt so cold. She couldn't take a step, she was shaking so hard. In the kitchen area, Nellie was cooking, a bright bandanna wrapped around her hair. She stirred something in a pan while outside Shep tended to the barbecue. Dan was playing one-person Foosball, running back and forth to each end of

当艾美疲惫地推开谢普家的门时，美味佳肴的香味扑面而来。 她花了一个多小时才回来。 她有足够的时间来消化所发生的事情。 但这并没有消除她的恐惧。 它还在她的胃里，一个又冷又硬的球。 当她关上门时，她开始发抖。 现在她安全了，所发生的一切的恐怖才真正降临。 如果汉密尔顿没有救她呢？ 她看到自己掉进了水里，看到鲨鱼用它们死去的黑眼睛打转.... 她觉得很冷。她一步也走不动，抖得厉害。 在厨房里，内莉正在做饭，一条鲜艳的大手帕缠在她的头发上。 她在锅里搅拌着什么东西，而外面的谢普在忙着烧烤。 丹在玩单人桌上足球，来回跑到两端

the table. Nellie looked up. Her welcoming smile faded as she took in Amy's appearance. She dropped the wooden spoon, splattering tomato sauce on the stove. Amy saw it bloom like blood in the water. Dizziness swept over her, a buzzing in her ears. The room started to spin…. Nellie caught her as her knees gave way. "Dan, get a blanket!" Nellie's voice was steady, but it rang through the open space. She half carried Amy to the couch. The only thing Dan could find was the leather jacket. He brought it over and Amy gratefully wrapped herself in it. "What happened?" Dan asked, his small face looking pinched. She'd spooked him. "They didn't hurt me. I mean, if I'd been thrown into the bloody fish water with the sharks, who knows? But Hamilton came by on a paraglider, so—" "What?" Nellie exclaimed at the same moment that Dan yelled, "Sharks?"

桌子上。内莉抬起头来。 看到艾米的样子，她那欢迎的笑容消失了。 她把木勺掉在地上，番茄酱溅到了炉子上。 艾米看到它像水里的血一样盛开。 她感到一阵头晕，耳朵嗡嗡作响。 房间开始旋转.... 内莉抓住了她的膝盖。 “丹，拿条毯子来！”内莉的声音很平静，但却响彻了整个空地。 她把艾米半抱到沙发上。 丹唯一能找到的就是那件皮夹克。 他把它拿过来，艾米感激地把自己裹在里面。 “发生什么事了?”丹问道，他的小脸看起来很憔悴。 她把他吓坏了。“他们没有伤害我。 我是说，如果我和鲨鱼一起被扔进那该死的鱼水里，谁知道呢？ 可是汉密尔顿乘滑翔伞经过，所以——““什么？”在丹大叫的同时，内莉也叫了起来，“鲨鱼？”

Quickly, Amy recounted how Irina had led her through the tunnel and warned her about Isabel, yet she'd wound up on the boat anyway. She explained how Isabel had offered them Lucian protection and what had happened when she'd said no. When she described Isabel calmly ladling the fish parts into the sea, Nellie turned white. But the funny thing was that as Amy told the story, she stopped shaking, and her fear went away. She told them everything, including the rosemary Clue that Irina had given her. But she didn't tell them the most important thing. That Ian, Irina, and Isabel all told her that Hope and Arthur had been murdered. And that Isabel had accused the Madrigals and Irina of the crime. "Oh, man," Dan said, throwing himself back on the cushions. "I missed it! If I'd been there, Isabel Cobra wouldn't have had a chance. We could have pushed her into the water. Or I could have gotten fishing line and tied her up. Or we could have used Ian as a battering ram!" "Dan," Nellie chided. "This isn't a game." The thirty-nine clues are like game to your

艾米很快地讲述了伊琳娜如何带她穿过隧道，并警告她要小心伊莎贝尔，但她还是上了船。 她解释了伊莎贝尔如何向他们提供卢西安的保护，以及当她拒绝时发生了什么。 当她描述伊莎贝尔平静地把鱼片舀进海里时，内莉的脸变白了。 但有趣的是，当艾米讲述这个故事时，她停止了颤抖，她的恐惧也消失了。 她把一切都告诉了他们，包括伊琳娜给她的迷迭香线索。 但她没有告诉他们最重要的事情。 伊恩，伊琳娜和伊莎贝尔都告诉她霍普和亚瑟被谋杀了。 伊莎贝尔指控牧歌夫妇和伊琳娜犯了罪。 “哦，天哪，”丹说着，又坐回了靠垫上。 “我错过了！”如果我当时在场，伊莎贝尔·柯博拉就没机会了。 我们本可以把她推进水里的。 或者我可以拿鱼线把她绑起来。 或者我们可以把伊恩当作攻城槌！”“丹，”内莉责备道。 “这不是游戏。”这三十九条线索对你来说就像游戏

brother, yes? Dan jumped up and began pretending to paraglide over snapping sharks. Amy made a decision as she watched him. She couldn't tell him about their parents. There was a soft, secret spot in her brother that he covered up with jokes. It was all about losing his parents so young— before he could even have memories of them. She would have to try to figure it out on her own. At least for awhile. Amy touched her throat, momentarily forgetting that Grace's necklace was gone. The absence of it made her feel more alone than ever. This feeling inside— that there was something she needed to remember— was big and scary. She'd have to hide that from Dan, too. He hates when I act like a big sister. But I am one. Nellie patted her knee. "Food. That's what you need." She got up and went back to the kitchen. Amy wrapped the jacket more tightly around herself. She felt the lining tear and she groaned softly. The only thing she had from her mother,

哥哥,是吗?丹跳了起来，开始假装滑翔伞飞过鲨鱼。 艾米看着他做了一个决定。 她不能告诉他他们父母的事。 在她哥哥身上有一个柔软而隐秘的地方，他用笑话掩盖了它。 这一切都是关于他在很小的时候就失去了父母——在他还没有对他们有记忆之前。 她得自己想办法解决。 至少暂时是这样。艾米摸了摸自己的喉咙，暂时忘记了格蕾丝的项链不见了。 没有了它，她感到比以往任何时候都更加孤独。 这种内心的感觉——她需要记住的东西——是巨大而可怕的。 她也得瞒着丹。 他讨厌我表现得像个大姐姐。 但我是其中之一。内莉拍了拍她的膝盖。 “食物。这就是你需要的。” 她起身回到厨房。 艾米把夹克裹得更紧了。 她感到衬里撕裂了，她轻轻地呻吟着。 她唯一从母亲那里得到的东西，

and she'd ripped it! She moved her fingers along the lining, searching for the tear, and heard something crackle. Sitting up, she examined it more closely. The jacket had already been torn along the seam and repaired again. She reached inside the tear and took out a brittle piece of lined paper—something ripped from a notebook. "What is it?" Dan asked, coming closer. "A piece of old notebook paper hidden in the lining." Her heart pounding, Amy read the words aloud. 28 June 1937 Each stronghold I was able to enter seems shaky now. War is on the horizon, nothing seems simple or safe, from Natal to Karachi. They fear us; that is good. Left Bandung and flew to Darwin. Here we sent back parachutes to lighten load so I am including this jacket as well. GP has been instructed to pass it along to you. Tomorrow we go on to Lae. Then it is off across the Pacific to Howland. I'm sorry to report that I failed to find our

她把它撕了！她用手指摸着衬里，寻找着眼泪，听到什么东西在噼啪作响。 她坐起来，更仔细地检查了一下。 夹克的接缝处已经被撕破了，又补了一遍。 她把手伸进破洞里，拿出一张易碎的衬纸——从笔记本上撕下来的东西。 “什么事？”丹问，走得更近了。 “衬里里藏着一张旧的笔记本纸。” 艾米的心怦怦直跳，她大声念着这些话。 我能进入的每一个据点现在似乎都摇摇欲坠。 战争一触即发，从纳塔尔到卡拉奇，一切似乎都不简单也不安全。 他们害怕我们；这很好。 离开万隆，飞往达尔文。 在这里，我们送回了降落伞来减轻负荷，所以我也包括了这件夹克。 全科医生奉命转交给你。 明天我们去莱城。然后穿越太平洋前往霍兰。 很抱歉告诉你，我没能找到我们的

assassin H, or any real clues to his whereabouts. I was able to get to Batavia from Bandung and managed to find our contact. He told of a "scarred white man" who the natives believed had escaped the mountain. His body was intact but not his mind. What he had endured was terrible enough to break it. Here in Darwin our informer turned out to be a dead end. It was soon clear that the gentleman— and I use the term loosely, because he was quite a charlatan— was just looking for another payoff. All he offered was riddles. He even had the audacity to try to sell me a ring— it will bring you luck, he said, so I bought it in hopes it would gain me information. It didn't. When I asked again if he knew H, he said both of them were in a hole but not to worry. Then he cackled a laugh and that was the end of it. Clearly he enjoyed giving me no information… and making me pay for it. I am off into the blue. No more strongholds to penetrate. Only sky. AE "I don't get it," Dan said. "Who do you think AE is? Some Australian dude who flew a plane?"

刺客H，或者任何关于他行踪的线索 我从万隆赶到巴达维亚，并设法找到了我们的联系人。 他讲述了一个“伤痕累累的白人”，当地人认为他是从山上逃出来的。 他的身体完好无损，但他的思想却没有。 他所忍受的一切可怕得足以使他崩溃。 在达尔文，我们的线人是死路一条。 很快就清楚了，这位绅士——我用这个词不太严格，因为他是个十足的骗子——只是在寻求另一种回报。 他提供的都是谜语。 他甚至厚颜无耻地想卖给我一枚戒指——他说它会给你带来好运，所以我买了戒指，希望它能给我带来信息。 它没有。当我再次问他是否认识H时，他说他们俩都陷入困境，但不用担心。 然后他咯咯地笑了一声，事情就这样结束了。 很明显，他喜欢不给我任何信息，让我为此付出代价。 我沉浸在忧郁之中。再也没有要塞可以攻破了。 只有天空。“我不明白，”丹说。 “你认为AE是谁？”某个会开飞机的澳大利亚人？”