Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3 Traitorous au pair or not, Dan was ready to go. He was at Oceanus, and nothing was going to stop him from checking out the water park. "What is it with girls— what's taking so long?" Dan was in his swim trunks, one hand on the doorknob as he watched Amy and Nellie burrow through their suitcases. Between the three of them, hardly half a dozen words had been spoken since the plane. Dan had spent the rest of the trip with his thoughts going around in circles. He kept trying to make a mental list of everything that had happened to them when Nellie was around. It wasn't easy, because she'd been around almost the whole time. And no matter how he added things up— from the streets of Paris… through the Australian outback… to the top of Everest— Nellie had helped them far more than she'd

不管是不是叛徒互惠生，丹都准备走了。 他在Oceanus，没有什么能阻止他去水上乐园看看。 “女孩子们怎么了——怎么花那么长时间？”丹穿着泳裤，一只手抓着门把手，看着艾米和内莉在行李箱里翻来翻去。 自从飞机失事以来，他们三个人几乎没有说过六个字。 在剩下的旅程中，丹的思绪一直在兜圈子。 他不断地试图在脑海中列出内莉在的时候发生在他们身上的每一件事。 这并不容易，因为她几乎一直都在我身边。 不管他怎么把事情加起来——从巴黎的街道……穿过澳大利亚的内陆……再到珠穆朗玛峰的顶峰——内莉对他们的帮助远远超过了她

hindered them. All those hotel rooms… Sometimes Nellie had stayed in the same room; other times she'd had her own room. No doubt about it, she would have had plenty of chances to stay in touch with McIntyre, and work out a scheme for betrayal. But why take so long? If she was in league with their enemies, why not just get them out of the way as soon as possible? It just didn't make sense. And Dan had spent enough time on the Clue hunt to know what that meant. Trouble. But for the moment, he had decided to put it out of his mind as much as he could. "C'mon, hurry UP!" he said, jiggling with impatience. "Sunscreen first," Nellie said, tossing him a tube. Dan threw his towel on the bed. He smeared a little sunscreen on his arms, stomach, and chest, then rubbed his greasy hands down the front of his legs. "There. Okay?"

阻碍了他们。所有那些旅馆的房间……有时内莉也住在同一个房间里；有时候她有自己的房间。 毫无疑问，她会有很多机会与麦金太尔保持联系，制定一个背叛的计划。 但为什么要花这么长时间？如果她和他们的敌人勾结，为什么不尽快把他们赶走呢？ 这根本说不通。 丹在寻找线索上花了足够的时间，知道这意味着什么。 麻烦。但眼下，他决定尽可能把这件事抛诸脑后。 “快，快点！”他说，不耐烦得浑身发抖。 “先涂防晒霜，”内莉说着，扔给他一管。 丹把毛巾扔在床上。 他在手臂、腹部和胸部涂了一点防晒霜，然后用油腻的手在腿前擦了擦。 ”。没事吧?”

"No, not okay," Nellie said. "Your back, your neck, and the backs of your legs, too. And your ears." "I'll do your back," Amy said quickly. Dan threw her a glance. It was clear to him that she didn't want Nellie in their lives any more than absolutely necessary— not even doing sunscreen duty. "I can do it myself," he said, and did an even worse job on his back than he had on his front. Then he grabbed his towel. "I'm not waiting any longer— I'm going without you." He saw Nellie roll her eyes. "Check in with me at that Dolphin Inlet place at"— she glanced at her watch —"two. And don't lose track of the time. I'm sick of getting freaked out when I can't find you!" He was out the door before she had finished speaking. Dan paid for his admission into the water park and got a rubber band to wear on his wrist. First stop: the Sun Palace waterslides. One of the slides

“不，不好，”内莉说。 “你的背，你的脖子，还有你的腿后面。 还有你的耳朵。”“我来帮你擦背，”艾米赶紧说。 丹瞥了她一眼。他很清楚，除非绝对必要，她不想让内莉出现在他们的生活中——甚至连涂防晒霜的职责都不想。 “我自己可以做，”他说，他的背部比他的正面做得更糟糕。 然后他抓起毛巾。 “我不想再等下去了——我一个人去。” 他看见内莉翻白眼。 “到海豚湾的那家店跟我报到，”——她看了看表——“两点。 别忘了时间。 我受够了找不到你的时候被吓坏了！”她还没说完话，他就出去了。 丹付了水上公园的入场费，买了一根橡皮筋戴在手腕上。 第一站：太阳宫水滑梯。 其中一张幻灯片

looked almost perpendicular! He went down as instructed by the park workers at the top of the slide: legs crossed at the ankles, arms crossed over his chest. What a breathtaking ride! Literally. Water sprayed into his mouth and got blasted up his nose; by the time he splashed into the pool at the bottom, he was choking and coughing and spitting water. It was glorious. For two hours, Dan ran around the water park. He couldn't decide if he should first try every single ride once, or if he should do the ones he liked over and over again. This might be his only chance; there wouldn't be any time for fun once they got back on the Clue hunt. This thought made Dan feel a tiny bit guilty. On the way to the next ride, he spent a few minutes poking around the bushes, looking for a cat. Not just any cat— a calico cat, that was what Hamilton had said. Then he saw a sign stating that pets weren't allowed in the park. That meant, of course, that the hunt for the cat would have to take place

看起来几乎是垂直的！他在滑梯顶端按照公园工作人员的指示走了下来：双腿交叉在脚踝处，双臂交叉在胸前。 多么惊险的旅程啊！字面上。 水喷进他的嘴里，喷到他的鼻子里；当他把水溅到池底的时候，他已经喘不过气来，又咳嗽又吐水了。 这是光荣的。丹绕着水上公园跑了两个小时。 他无法决定是否应该先尝试每一次骑行，还是应该一次又一次地做他喜欢的骑行。 这可能是他唯一的机会；一旦他们重新开始寻找线索，就没有时间玩了。 这个想法让丹感到有点内疚。 在去下一站的路上，他花了几分钟在灌木丛里摸索，寻找一只猫。 不是一般的猫——是一只印花布猫，这是汉密尔顿所说的。 然后他看到一个牌子，上面写着公园里不准养宠物。 当然，这就意味着必须要去找那只猫

outside the park. How many cats lived in the Bahamas? How were they ever going to find the right one? But the next ride put any thought of cats out of his mind. He got on an inner tube and went down a steep slide. The slide leveled out and led into a long tunnel. Except it wasn't like the usual waterslide tunnels. This one was made of clear glass— and it went through a shark tank. The sharks came really close— if the glass hadn't been there, he could have touched them! "It was WAY cool," he said to Amy when the threesome met up. He was only seven minutes late. "Yeah, well, this is way cooler," Nellie said. She held up a string bag full of weird–looking produce. Amy looked away, and Dan followed her lead in ignoring Nellie. But Nellie wasn't giving up. "You should have seen all the stuff at the market," she said. "Plantains, jack fruit, custard apples— I bought, like, one of everything!" She pulled out a handful of round dark brown nuts wrapped in what looked

在公园外面。巴哈马有多少只猫？ 他们怎么才能找到合适的人呢？ 但第二次骑行让他完全忘记了猫。 他爬上内胎，滑下陡峭的滑梯。 滑梯变平，通向一条长长的隧道。 只不过它不像一般的滑水道隧道。 这个是由透明玻璃制成的——它经过了一个鲨鱼池。 鲨鱼离得很近——如果玻璃不在那里，他可能会碰到它们！三人见面时，他对艾米说：“太酷了。” 他只迟到了七分钟。 “是啊，这样酷多了，”内莉说。 她举起一个装着奇形怪状农产品的细绳袋。 艾米把目光移开，丹也跟着她，没理内莉。 但内莉并没有放弃。 “你应该看看市场上所有的东西，”她说。 “大蕉、杰克果、蛋奶苹果——我什么都买了一个！”她拿出一把圆圆的深褐色的坚果，裹在什么东西里

like red tentacles. "Whole nutmegs. The red stuff, that's mace. You can hardly ever find it whole back home— it's way better for cooking than the powdered stuff. Smell." She thrust her hand out at Dan, who immediately backed away. "No, thanks," he said. "They look like turds. Designer dog turds, like from some fancy miniature show dog." Nellie put the nutmegs back in her bag. "Why do I even bother trying," she muttered. "Wait till you hear this," Dan said. "When I was standing in line, some people were talking about how a shark once jumped OUT of the tank and landed on the slide, can you believe it? And then it slid down and ended up in the splash pool!" Amy shuddered, and Dan knew that she was remembering Australia, where she'd had enough experience with sharks to last a lifetime. "Did anyone get hurt?" she asked anxiously. Dan shrugged. "Naw. It happened before the park was open for the day." His face fell a little. "But the shark died because of the chlorinated

像红色的触手。“全肉豆蔻。 红色的东西，那是狼牙棒。 你在家里几乎找不到完整的——它比粉末状的东西更适合烹饪。 气味。”她向丹伸出手，丹立刻后退了。 “不，谢谢，”他说。“他们看起来像坨屎。 设计师的狗屎，就像一些精致的微型表演狗的屎。” 内莉把肉豆蔻放回包里。 “我为什么还要费心去尝试呢？”她喃喃地说。 “你等着听吧，”丹说。 “当我在排队的时候，一些人在谈论一条鲨鱼是如何从水箱里跳出来落在滑梯上的，你能相信吗？ 然后它滑下来，最后掉进了溅水池！”艾米打了个寒颤，丹知道她想起了澳大利亚，在那里，她和鲨鱼打交道的经历足以让她终生难忘。 “有人受伤吗？”她焦急地问。 丹耸耸肩。“算了。事情发生在公园开放之前。” 他的脸稍稍沉了下来。“但鲨鱼死于氯化