11 Dreaming Happy Dreams

Chapter 11 DREAMING HAPPY DREAMS Coke and Pep didn't know what to think anymore. After his marriage to Aunt Judy in Washington, Dr. Warsaw had vowed that he was going to get them, but there had been no attempt on their lives since then. Mrs. Higgins could have easily harmed them at Luray Caverns, but she didn't. The bowler dudes could have finished them off at the Jousting Hall of Fame but didn't lay a hand on them. Maybe Bones and Mya had been right. Maybe nobody was trying to kill them anymore. By this time, it was late afternoon. Dr. McDonald was determined to make it through the state of Virginia and stop for the night at a campground somewhere near the state line. He

第十一章做快乐的梦可口可乐和佩普不知道该怎么想了。 在与华盛顿的朱迪阿姨结婚后，他的妻子米歇尔？ 华沙曾发誓要把他们抓起来，但从那以后，再没有人试图要他们的命。 希金斯夫人本可以轻易地在卢雷洞穴伤害他们，但她没有。 那些玩保龄球的家伙本可以在名人堂上把他们干掉，但他们却没有动手。 也许骨头和米亚是对的。 也许没人想杀他们了。 这时已经是傍晚了。 麦克唐纳博士决定穿过弗吉尼亚州，在州界附近的一个露营地过夜。 他

stayed on rural roads heading south out of Mount Solon until he was able to merge on I-81 and push the RV to seventy miles per hour. They were making good time. Soon they passed the exit for Lexington, Virginia. "Hey, you'll never believe what they have in Lexington!" Mrs. McDonald said, paging through her guidebook. "What?" everyone asked. "Stonewall Jackson's grave!" she replied. "Not just his arm. His real gravesite!" "You're kidding me!" Coke exclaimed. "For real?" "Yes, and his stuffed horse, Little Sorrel, is in Lexington too," Mrs. McDonald said. "We should go!" Pep exclaimed. In the driver's seat, Dr. McDonald rolled his eyes. Soon it would be dark out, and the thought of driving to the next exit and finding his way back to Lexington didn't appeal to him. Besides, a grave is a grave. To him, the location of a person's remains was not as

他一直在索伦山以南的乡村公路上行驶，直到他能够在I-81号公路上汇合，把房车的时速提高到70英里。 他们玩得很开心。 很快，他们通过了前往弗吉尼亚州列克星敦的出口。 “嘿，你绝对不会相信莱克星顿有什么！”麦克唐纳太太一边说，一边翻看她的旅游指南。 “什么？”大家都问。“石墙杰克逊的坟墓！”她回答。 “不只是他的胳膊。他真正的墓地！”“你在开玩笑吧！”可口可乐喊道。 “真的吗?”“是的，他的毛绒马小Sorrel也在列克星敦，”麦克唐纳太太说。 “我们该走了！”Pep喊道。 坐在驾驶座上的麦克唐纳医生翻了个白眼。 很快，天就黑了，他不想开车到下一个出口，然后再找回列克星敦。 再说，坟墓就是坟墓。 对他来说，一个人的遗体的位置并不像

important as the location where they lived their life, where they achieved their accomplishments. "I wish somebody had mentioned that before we passed the Lexington exit," he announced. "There might not be another exit for miles. I don't want to go back now." "That's not fair, Ben!" protested Mrs. McDonald. "When we were near the gravesite of Stonewall Jackson's arm, you said you didn't want to go because it was just his arm. You said you'd go if it was the gravesite of his whole body! And now we get to the gravesite of his whole body and you don't want to go there either." "But it's not the gravesite of his whole body," Dr. McDonald replied. "It's missing an arm." "Ben, that's not fair!" Coke laughed, but Pep just listened in silence, worried. Her parents had certainly been arguing a lot lately. Usually they got along pretty well. Maybe they had just been pretending all

重要的是他们生活的地方，他们取得成就的地方。 “我真希望在我们通过列克星敦出口之前有人告诉过我，”他宣布。 “可能几英里内都没有另一个出口。 我现在不想回去了。” “这不公平，本！”麦克唐纳太太抗议道。 “当我们在石墙杰克逊手臂的墓地附近时，你说你不想去，因为那只是他的手臂。 你说过如果那是他的坟墓你就去！现在我们到了他的整个墓地，你也不想去那里。” “但这并不是他整个身体的坟墓。” 麦克唐纳回答道。“它少了一只胳膊。” “本，这不公平！”可口可乐笑了，但佩普只是默默地听着，很担心。 她的父母最近肯定经常吵架。 通常他们相处得很好。 也许他们只是在假装

that time. Maybe being cooped up together in this RV for so long had brought out the problems in their relationship. Maybe they really didn't love each other. Maybe they were going to get a divorce. A foul mood settled over the family as they drove south on I-81. Mrs. McDonald had been planning to stop off in a town called Natural Bridge to visit the Virginia Safari Park. But now she was afraid to even bring it up. She turned on the radio to break up the awkward silence. "Next month is Elvis Month," boomed the DJ, "as we celebrate the life and remember the tragic passing of The King. But I just can't wait, so here's a little taste of Elvis right now...." "Blue Suede Shoes" blasted out of the speakers. Pep was only half listening to the radio, but suddenly her eyebrows went up and her eyes opened wide. She reached for her pad and rifled through the pages until she found her notes on the cipher that she had been trying so hard to

那个时候。也许是在房车里呆太久导致了他们关系的问题。 也许他们真的不爱对方。 也许他们要离婚了。 当他们沿着81号州际公路向南行驶时，一种恶劣的情绪笼罩了全家。 麦克唐纳夫人本来打算在一个叫天然桥的小镇停下来，参观弗吉尼亚野生动物园。 但现在她甚至不敢提起这件事。 她打开收音机以打破令人尴尬的沉默。 “下个月是猫王月，”DJ大声说道，“我们纪念猫王的一生，缅怀他悲惨的离世。 但我等不及了，所以现在就来品尝一下猫王的味道....” 喇叭里传出“蓝色麂皮鞋”的声音。 佩普心不在焉地听着收音机，但突然间，她扬起了眉毛，睁大了眼睛。 她伸手去拿便笺本，翻了一页又一页，终于找到了她一直在努力寻找的密码笔记

solve. LEVEL VIS I Of course! She fiddled with the letters for just a few moments, then wrote something down. Then she punched Coke in the shoulder and whispered in his ear, "I got it!" "You got what?" She showed him what she had written. ELVIS LIVE "LEVEL VIS I is ELVIS LIVE," she whispered excitedly. "It's so simple! I don't know why I didn't see it before." "Yeah, but what does ELVIS LIVE mean?" "It wasn't any secret message directed at us," Pep told him. "It was probably just an ad for some Elvis impersonator show! They must have mixed up the letters." "But why would they put an ad for an Elvis impersonator show at the end of the fireworks?" Coke asked. "Who knows? Who cares?" said Pep. "What

解决。第一层：当然！她把那些信胡乱摆弄了一会儿，然后写了些东西。 然后她在可乐的肩膀上打了一拳，在他耳边低声说：“我知道了！”“你得到了什么？”她给他看她写的东西。 “第一层是猫王现场，”她兴奋地低声说。 “太简单了！”我不知道为什么我之前没有看到它。” “是的，但是ELVIS LIVE是什么意思呢？”“这不是什么针对我们的秘密信息，”佩普告诉他。 “这可能只是一个猫王模仿秀的广告！”他们一定是把字母弄混了。” “但他们为什么要在烟花表演的最后放一个猫王模仿表演的广告呢？”可口可乐问道。 “谁知道呢?谁在乎？”佩普说。 “什么

matters is that Bones and Mya were right. Nobody is trying to kill us anymore. Not Dr. Warsaw. Not the bowler dudes. Not Mrs. Higgins. And certainly not Archie Clone. It's all over. We're in the clear!" It was nighttime when the McDonalds finally pulled into Paradise Lake and Campground just north of Danville, Virginia. They had a quick bite to eat, and then the twins got ready for bed. They had made it almost all the way through the state of Virginia. There had been no attempts on their lives since Archie Clone had tried to drop them on the Washington Monument. For the first time in a long time, Coke and Pep felt totally secure. They slept soundly, dreaming happy dreams and looking forward to the rest of the summer and the rest of their carefree lives. They had no idea that terrible, horrible, violent things were about to start happening to them. And one of them, of course, was going to involve a shredder.

重要的是骨头和米亚是对的。 没人再想杀我们了。 不是华沙博士。不是那些打保龄球的家伙。 不是希金斯太太。当然也不是阿奇克隆。 都结束了。我们安全了！”夜幕降临，麦当劳终于把车开进了天堂湖和维吉尼亚州丹维尔北部的露营地。 他们匆匆吃了一点东西，然后这对双胞胎就准备睡觉了。 他们几乎一路穿过了弗吉尼亚州。 自从阿奇·克隆试图把他们扔到华盛顿纪念碑上以来，再没有人对他们下手。 很长一段时间以来，可口可乐和佩普第一次感到完全安全。 他们睡得很香，做着快乐的梦，期待着剩下的夏天和无忧无虑的生活。 他们不知道可怕的，可怕的，暴力的事情即将发生在他们身上。 其中之一，当然，将涉及到碎纸机。