Chapter 19

CHAPTER 19 "Robert Cahill Henderson was a brilliant chemist," Amy said, reading rapidly. "He was also engaged to a cousin of Queen Victoria. He was a champion of Darwin's theories. That's why the search engine came up with so many hits. This is fascinating…." "Yeah. Wake me up when it's over," Dan said. He lay stretched out on one of the twin beds in Ken's spare room. He glanced over at the closet. "Are we sure they caught the snake?" "We're sure. Anyway, one day he suddenly broke his engagement— which was a huge deal in those days— and took off for the South Seas. He said he was going to do further study on Darwin's theories. But he wasn't a naturalist, he was a chemist," Amy added thoughtfully. "So that's strange." "Whatevs," Dan said with a yawn. "When does the fascinating part come?"

“罗伯特·卡希尔·亨德森是一位杰出的化学家，”艾米一边说，一边飞快地读着。 他还与维多利亚女王的堂兄订婚。 他是达尔文理论的拥护者。 这就是为什么搜索引擎会出现这么多的点击率。 这太神奇了....”“是的。 当它结束时叫醒我，”丹说。 他躺在肯恩的空房间里的一张双人床上。 他扫了一眼壁橱。 “我们确定他们抓住了那条蛇吗？”“我们肯定。 不管怎么说，有一天他突然取消了婚约——这在当时可是件大事——飞到南海去了。 他说他要进一步研究达尔文的理论。 但他不是博物学家，他是个化学家，”艾米若有所思地补充道。 “所以这很奇怪。”“随便吧，”丹打了个哈欠说。 “最精彩的部分什么时候来？”

"He made his way around the islands of Indonesia until settling on one to conduct experiments. He was believed to have perished in the eruption of Krakatau in 1883." "Krak-a-wa?" "Krakatau," Amy said. "It was a huge volcanic explosion. Actually, a series of explosions. The mountain basically imploded, and then came these huge tsunamis that killed about thirty-six thousand people. They heard the noise of the final explosion all the way in Australia. The dust cloud that came afterward gave spectacular sunsets even in the United States." "Now you're getting to the cool part." "That's it! The upside-down ice cream cone!" Amy said excitedly. "It was a volcano! He was drawing Krakatau. But why did he suddenly leave his fiancée and go to Indonesia? There has to be a reason." "Sure," Dan said. "He was one smart dude. Get married or go lie on a beach. No contest. Even with the volcano, the dude was ahead." "So he must have been in the vicinity of

他走遍了印度尼西亚的岛屿，直到选定一个岛屿进行实验。 他被认为是在1883年喀拉喀托火山爆发中丧生的。” “Krak-a-wa ?”“喀拉喀托火山，”艾米说。 “这是一次巨大的火山爆发。 实际上是一连串的爆炸。 这座山基本上是内爆了，然后发生了巨大的海啸，造成大约三万六千人死亡。 整个澳大利亚都听到了最后一次爆炸的声音。 随后出现的尘埃云甚至在美国也带来了壮观的日落。” “现在你到了很酷的部分了。” “就是它!倒过来的冰淇淋蛋筒！”艾米兴奋地说。 “那是一座火山！”他画的是喀拉喀托火山。 但他为什么突然离开他的未婚妻去了印尼？ 这其中一定有原因。” “当然，”丹说。“他是一个聪明的家伙。 要么结婚，要么躺在沙滩上。 没有比赛。即使有火山，那家伙也领先了。” “那么他一定在附近

Krakatau when it blew. He barely escaped with his life," Amy said. "He got to Sydney somehow. And Cahills and Madrigals have been looking for him ever since. Why?" If you found something, it belongs to all of us. If you keep it, you are thieves. Simple as that. It was the strangest thing. Dan's face was in front of her, but she had been gone, for just a moment. Standing in her nightgown, listening to the grown-ups. "Earth to Amy," Dan said. She didn't fall asleep until the people left. She heard the front door shut. She looked out to make sure they were really gone. But they stood in a little knot right under her window. She raised it slightly so she could look at them again. All she could see was the top of their heads. "Get some nerve," the beautiful lady said. "We have our answer. They traced him to Australia. This has to be taken care of tonight." Her fault. Her fault. "Amy? You're wigging." Dan peered at her.

喀拉喀托火山爆发的时候。他差点就没命了，”艾米说。 “他不知怎么地到了悉尼。 从那以后，卡希尔和牧歌一直在找他。 为什么?”如果你找到了什么，它就属于我们大家。 如果你留着它，你就是小偷。 就是这么简单。这是最奇怪的事情。 丹的脸出现在她面前，但她已经离开了，只是一会儿。 穿着睡衣站着，听大人们说话。 “地球给艾米，”丹说。直到人们离开，她才睡着。 她听见前门关上了。 她向外看了看，确定他们真的走了。 但他们站在她的窗下结成一个小结。 她微微抬起头，好再看看他们。 她只能看到他们的头顶。 “鼓起点勇气，”美丽的女士说。 “我们有了答案。他们追踪他到澳大利亚。 这件事今晚必须解决。” 她的错。她的错。”艾米吗? 你责备。”丹凝视着她。

"Seriously, are you okay?" She looked at her brother. At his pale face, the way he was worried about her but trying not to be. The asthma attack had taken so much out of him, but he was pretending it hadn't. She could see the exhaustion in the dark circles under his eyes. "I'm fine," she said. "So, what's next, space shot?" Dan asked. "Back to Sydney?" She cleared her throat. Her voice sounded rusty to her ears. "Darwin. We have to keep following their footsteps." On the plane the next morning, Amy settled back into the seat and opened the biography of Amelia Earhart she'd borrowed from Shep. She didn't know what she was looking for, so she leafed through the book, reading various passages, while Nellie zoned out with her earbuds and Dan made his way through a package of chicken-flavored potato crisps. A good night's sleep had restored him to his usual ravenous self.

“说真的，你还好吗？”她看着她的弟弟。 看着他苍白的脸，看着他为她担心但又尽量不去担心的样子。 哮喘病发作耗尽了他的精力，但他却假装没有。 她可以从他黑眼圈里看出他的疲惫。 “我很好，”她说。“那么，下一步是什么，太空射击吗？”丹问道。 “回悉尼？”她清了清嗓子。 她的声音听起来有些生涩。 “达尔文。我们必须追随他们的脚步。” 第二天早上，在飞机上，艾米回到座位上，打开了她从谢普那里借来的阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特的传记。 她不知道自己在找什么，所以她翻了翻书，读了几段，内莉戴着耳机走神了，丹在吃一包鸡肉味的薯片。 一夜的酣睡使他恢复了平时贪婪的样子。

"Dan, listen to this," she called. "In 1935, when Amelia was in Hawaii, she consulted with a noted volcanologist!" "Fascinating!" Dan said, ripping open a Violet Crumble. "Don't you see? She could have been gathering information about Krakatau, even then," Amy said. Dan closed his eyes and gave a huge pretend snore. Amy sighed and took out the pages she'd downloaded from the Internet and printed out on Ken's printer. She read through accounts of the original explosion. Occasionally, she'd read out an interesting fact to Dan, even though he had taken all his wrappers, balled them up, and was pretending to shoot baskets with them. Then she read a story that made her sit up. She read it slowly again. "Dan!" "Swish! Another three-pointer!" Amy threw a pillow at him. "DAN! Listen to this. During the day of the eruption, a ship heading for Batavia— that was the name for Jakarta then— got into trouble. They ran into this

“丹，听着，”她喊道。 “1935年，当阿米莉亚在夏威夷时，她咨询了一位著名的火山学家！”“迷人!”丹说着，撕开了一个紫罗兰脆饼。 “你还不明白吗？”她可能一直在收集有关喀拉喀托火山的信息，”艾米说。 丹闭上眼睛，假装打了个大鼾。 艾米叹了口气，拿出从网上下载的文件，用肯的打印机打印出来。 她通读了关于最初爆炸的报道。 偶尔，她会给丹读一个有趣的事实，尽管他已经把所有的包装纸都拿出来，揉成一团，假装用它们投篮。 然后她读了一个故事，使她坐了起来。 她又慢慢地读了一遍。“丹!”“漂亮!另一个三分球!”艾米朝他扔了一个枕头。 “丹!听听这个。在火山喷发的当天，一艘前往巴达维亚（当时雅加达的名字）的船只遇到了麻烦。 他们碰到了这个

huge cloud of ash, and then all this pumice— volcanic rock— started to rain on the deck. So the captain pulled into a harbor miles away. They never made it to port, they had to turn around. But get this— the cargo was wolfram." Dan sat up straight. "Wolfram? That's tungsten, one of the clues." "Not only that, the captain mentions that they had all these myrrh plants on deck. And the pumice and ash was raining down, so he had to order the crew to take it all below. What are the odds of a ship carrying both tungsten and myrrh?" "They were bringing clues. Probably to Henderson, right?" "It must have been! He was assembling clues!" Amy cried. "That's it! He was a scientist, so he was working on some kind of formula. Maybe that's why trying to find him is so crucial— why all the branches are looking. He set up some sort of lab…." Amy smacked her chair. "On Krakatau! That's it! He had to order stuff to be delivered. And then when Krakatau blew… the lab was destroyed. He must have gotten caught in the

巨大的火山灰云，然后所有的浮石——火山岩——开始落在甲板上。 于是船长把船开进了几英里外的一个港口。 他们没能进港，只好掉头。 但你听着——货物是狼狼。” 丹坐直了身子。”Wolfram吗? 那是钨，线索之一。” “不仅如此，船长还提到他们在甲板上种了许多没药。 浮石和火山灰如雨点般倾泻而下，所以他不得不命令船员把它们全部搬到下面。 一艘船同时运钨和没药的几率有多大？”“他们带来了线索。 可能是给亨德森，对吧？”“一定是！”他在搜集线索！”艾米哭了。 “就是它!他是个科学家，所以他在研究某种公式。 也许这就是为什么寻找他如此重要——为什么所有的分支机构都在寻找他。 他建立了某种实验室...." 艾米拍了一下椅子。“喀拉喀托火山!这是它!他得订东西送人。 然后喀拉喀托火山爆发，实验室被毁了。 他一定是被困在