Chapter 14

CHAPTER 14 Back in the car, Dan high–fived Amy so hard that her palm stung. "We did it!" he yelled. "Cobras— go worm away on your bellies and crawl into a hole somewhere! Ha!" Amy let herself enjoy the spark and fizz of his excitement for a few moments. Her own response was much more subdued. She felt almost dazed by the idea that they had actually gone after Isabel Kabra and succeeded in securing the fang. Dan's enthusiasm bubbled over into a complete lack of caution. "Now we've got icons for all four branches!" he crowed, totally oblivious to Amy's look of dismay. Great. Nellie only knew about the snakes and the fang before, but now she knows everything. Dan babbled on. "But we still don't know what they're for, so what do we do next?"

回到车里，丹用力地和艾米击掌，艾米的手掌都痛了。 “我们成功了！”“眼镜蛇们——趴下去，爬到什么地方的洞里去！”哈!”艾米让自己享受了一会儿他兴奋的火花和嘶嘶声。 她自己的反应要温和得多。 想到他们真的去追伊莎贝尔·卡布拉了，而且成功地拿到了獠牙，她几乎晕了过去。 丹的热情膨胀为完全不小心。 “现在我们四个分支都有图标了！”他得意地说，完全没有注意到艾米沮丧的表情。 好了。内莉以前只知道蛇和毒牙，但现在她什么都知道了。 丹絮絮叨叨地说。“但我们仍然不知道它们的用途，所以我们下一步该怎么办？”

Amy had thought this through already. "Nellie, will you call Miss Alice? Ask her if she remembers if there was anything that Grace was really interested in when she was here. I mean, something other than the earring." The phone calls that followed proved even more productive than they'd hoped. Miss Alice recalled that Grace had been fascinated by the archaeological site of Port Royal and had spent a lot of time there. At Miss Alice's suggestion, they then phoned Lester at the Archives. Because Lester was a historian, he knew all about Port Royal. He would meet them there when he got off work. The route to Port Royal took them onto the Palisadoes, a long spit of land that curved out into the ocean. The peninsula was so narrow that at times they could see the waters of Kingston Harbour on one side and the open sea on the other. Lester had instructed Nellie to drive to a church called St. Peter's. It was not a grand, impressive cathedral— just a small white church. Lester was already there and greeted them with that nice smile of his.

艾米已经把这件事想清楚了。 “耐莉，请你叫爱丽丝小姐来好吗？” 问她记不记得格蕾丝在这里的时候有没有什么东西是她真正感兴趣的。 我是说，除了耳环以外的东西。” 随后的电话交谈比他们希望的更有成效。 爱丽丝小姐回忆说，格蕾丝被皇家港的考古遗址迷住了，在那里呆了很长时间。 在爱丽丝小姐的建议下，他们给档案馆的莱斯特打了电话。 因为莱斯特是一位历史学家，他对罗亚尔港了如指掌。 他下班后会在那里和他们见面。 去罗亚尔港的路线把他们带到了帕利萨多斯，那是一片长长的陆地，蜿蜒伸向大海。 半岛非常狭窄，有时他们可以看到一边是金斯顿港的水域，另一边是开阔的大海。 雷斯脱吩咐奈莉开车到一个叫圣。 彼得的。它不是一座宏伟的、令人印象深刻的大教堂——只是一座白色的小教堂。 雷斯脱已经在那里，带着他那可爱的微笑迎接他们。

"This is St. Peter's," he said. "There's something here I want you to see." He led them to the churchyard, where there was a little cemetery. "This one," he said, pointing to a tombstone that lay flat on the ground. Amy read the inscription aloud. "'Here lies the body of Lewis Galdy who departed this life at Port Royal on December 22, 1739 aged 80. He was born at Montpelier in France but left that country for his religion and came to settle in this island where he was swallowed up in the Great Earthquake in the year 1692 and by the providence of God was by another shock thrown into the sea and miraculously saved by swimming until a boat took him up. He lived many years after in great reputation. Beloved by all and much lamented at his Death.'" "'Swallowed up in the Great Earthquake'?" Dan asked. "June 7, 1692," Lester said. "A huge earthquake, followed by tidal waves and

“这是圣彼得教堂，”他说。 “这里有样东西我想让你看看。” 他把他们带到教堂墓地，那里有一个小墓地。 “这一个，”他指着一块平躺在地上的墓碑说。 艾米大声念着碑文。 “这里长眠着路易斯·高迪的遗体，他于1739年12月22日在罗亚尔港去世，享年80岁。 他出生在法国的蒙彼利埃，但为了信仰他离开了那个国家，来到这个岛上定居，在1692年的大地震中他被吞没了，上帝又一次把他扔进海里，奇迹般地游泳，直到一艘船把他救了上来。 多年以后，他仍然享有盛誉。 大家都很爱戴他，他死后大家都很哀悼。’”“‘在大地震中被吞没了’？”丹问道。 “1692年6月7日，”莱斯特说。 一场大地震，接着是海啸和

aftershocks. Supposedly, Lewis Galdy fell into a fissure like a lot of other folks. Most of them died when the aftershocks sealed the fissures. But somehow he got ejected and ended up miles out at sea." "What a ride!" Dan exclaimed. Lester grinned. "I thought you'd be interested." "It's amazing he got through it alive!" Amy said. "The earthquake destroyed two–thirds of the city," Lester said. "You probably noticed on the way here, it's pretty quiet now, just a small fishing village." "That must have been one heck of an earthquake," Nellie said. "I bet it was the waves," Dan said. "Like tsunamis. They probably swamped the place." "Close," Lester said, "but not quite. The whole city was built on sand. The earthquake and the tidal waves destabilized the ground, and nearly the whole city got sucked down in quicksand." Dan's mouth fell open. "A whole city? Wow!" "It's called the Sunken City now, over that

余震。据说，路易斯·高迪和其他人一样掉进了裂缝里。 他们中的大多数人在余震堵塞裂缝时死亡。 但不知怎么的，他被弹了出来，最后落在了几英里外的海上。” “多么美妙的旅程啊！”丹喊道。 莱斯特咧嘴一笑。“我想你会感兴趣的。” “他能活下来真是太神奇了！”艾米说。 “地震摧毁了三分之二的城市，”莱斯特说。 “你可能在来的路上注意到了，这里现在很安静，只是一个小渔村。” “那一定是一场大地震，”内莉说。 “我敢打赌是海浪。”丹说。 “就像海啸。他们可能淹没了这个地方。” “差不多，”雷斯脱说，“但还不完全。 整个城市都建在沙土上。 地震和海啸动摇了地面，几乎整个城市都被流沙吞没了。” 丹张大了嘴。“整个城市？” 哇!”“那地方现在叫沉没之城了

way," Lester said, pointing to the northeast. "I do some research for the excavation crew. The Sunken City is considered one of the richest archaeological sites in the Caribbean— in the whole Western Hemisphere, actually. A seventeenth–century city, preserved underwater!" Amy found his enthusiasm contagious. She had always loved history, but Lester was making her realize that it wasn't just dates and places and names. The past was alive all around him, every day. "There are also a number of ships that are important salvage sites," he said. "They're being carefully excavated, too." Amy was paying close attention. "Can we go there? Can we see any of the excavation work?" Grace, she thought. Miss Alice said Grace spent a lot of time here. Probably poking around looking for stuff related to Anne Bonny or Nanny. A dig site would be the perfect place to start figuring out what she was looking for…. "You'd like to see it?" Lester's smile was even wider than usual. "They don't normally allow

雷斯脱指着东北边说。 “我为挖掘队做一些研究。 沉没之城被认为是加勒比地区——实际上是整个西半球——最富有的考古遗址之一。 一座十七世纪的城市，保存在水下！”艾米发现他的热情很有感染力。 她一向喜欢历史，但雷斯脱使她认识到，历史不只是日期、地点和名字。 过去的一切每天都在他身边鲜活地存在着。 “还有一些船只是重要的打捞地点，”他说。 “它们也在被仔细挖掘。” 艾米在密切关注着。 “我们能去那儿吗？”我们能看看挖掘工作吗？”格蕾丝，她想。 爱丽丝小姐说格蕾丝在这里待了很久。 可能是在找跟安妮·邦尼或保姆有关的东西。 一个挖掘地点将是一个完美的地方，可以开始弄清楚她在寻找什么.... “你想看看吗？”雷斯脱的笑容比平时更灿烂了。 “他们通常不允许

tourists, but I'll see what I can do," he said, and winked. Dan beamed back at him. "Lester, you rock!" Lester laughed. "Thanks. But reggae is more my style." "Okay," Dan said cheerfully. "Lester, you reggae!" In the car, as they neared the oceanfront on the other side of the peninsula, Amy marveled for the hundredth time at the color of the sea. "Az–tur–pea–lean," she whispered again. Then she blinked. Amy took the magnifying glass and the little gold strip out of her backpack. "What?" Dan said. "Did we miss something?" Amy's eyes were glowing. "I got it!" she said. "It's not words at all. It's sort of— it's like abbreviations." She scrabbled around in her pack again and took out a pen and her little notepad. "Look," she said as she wrote. EKTOMALUJA

游客，但我会看看我能做些什么，”他说，并眨了眨眼。 丹也对他微笑。“莱斯特，你真棒！”莱斯特笑了。 “谢谢。但雷鬼舞更适合我。” “好吧，”丹高兴地说。 “莱斯特，你这个雷鬼！”在车里，当他们驶近半岛另一边的海滨时，艾米第一百次惊叹于海的颜色。 “az - to - pea - lean。”她又低声说。 然后她眨了眨眼睛。艾米从背包里拿出放大镜和小金条。 “什么?”丹说。“我们错过什么了吗？”艾米的眼睛闪闪发光。 “我明白了！”她说。“这根本不是言语。 这有点——就像缩写一样。” 她又在背包里摸索了一下，拿出一支笔和一个小记事本。 “看，”她边写边说。 EKTOMALUJA