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Chapter 22 "Oh, man, that was so dumb!" Haley could not believe how idiotic she had been. "Trying to crawl out of a book return slot? Chya. Like that was going to work." She was giving herself a good talking-to as she trudged up the steps to the first floor. When she entered the rotunda, she saw Charles Chiltington slipping out into the lobby again. Chiltington was a snake. Worse. A garden slug. Maybe a leech. Something oily and slimy that left

第二十二章“啊，天哪，那真是太蠢了!”哈利简直不敢相信她是多么愚蠢。 “想从还书槽里爬出来?” Chya。就像那样行得通一样。” 她在艰难地走上二楼的台阶时，狠狠地训斥了自己一番。 当她走进圆形大厅时，她看见查尔斯·齐廷顿又溜进了大厅。 奇廷顿是一条蛇。更糟。 一只花园蛞蝓。也许是水蛭。 一些油腻黏滑的东西

a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people's ideas. That was why Chiltington had tailed the twin library nerds, Peckleman and Fernandez, upstairs during last night's dessert hunt. Haley was smart enough to know that Chiltington was hoping to steal the book geeks' ideas. Actually, Haley was a lot smarter than anybody (except her teachers and whoever scored her IQ tests) knew. With certain people, mainly grownups and silly boys, pretending to be a ditzy princess made getting what she wanted a whole lot easier. And what she wanted right now was money. Lots of money. Her dad had been out of work for nearly a year. They'd run through all their rainyday savings. They'd had to borrow from relatives and in-laws. If Haley could win this competition and become Mr. Lemoncello's spokesmodel, her family's money woes would be over and they wouldn't have to sell their home. And once other people saw her on TV for Lemoncello games, they'd want her for their commercials, too. And movies.

一条油腻腻的小道，喜欢盗用别人的想法。 这就是为什么奇廷顿在昨晚寻找甜点的时候跟踪图书馆的一对双胞胎书呆子佩克曼和费尔南德斯上楼的原因。 海莉很聪明，她知道奇廷顿是想偷那些书呆子的点子。 事实上，海莉比任何人(除了她的老师和给她做智商测试的人)都要聪明得多。 对于某些人，主要是成年人和傻男孩，假装成一个愚蠢的公主会让她更容易得到她想要的。 她现在想要的是钱。 很多钱。她的父亲已经失业将近一年了。 他们会花光所有的应急储蓄。 他们不得不向亲戚和姻亲借钱。 如果海莉能赢得这场比赛，成为莱蒙切罗的代言人，她家的经济困境就会结束，他们也不必卖掉房子。 一旦其他人在电视上看到她为Lemoncello的比赛代言，他们也会想让她为自己的广告代言。 和电影。

Maybe her own sitcom. Something on the Disney Channel. But for all that to happen, Haley needed a winning idea—and fast. Something better than "crawl through a slot that's barely wide enough for your wrist." Maybe she should flush herself down the toilet and escape through the sewers like Charles did in that video game. She headed over to the Book Nook Café so she could sit down and think. She stepped into the room and checked out the snack table. There were trays of cookies, strawberries, bananas, and brownies. Sitting down to nibble on a macaroon, she studied the row of cookbooks displayed on the bookshelves lining the wall. One in particular caught her eye: Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh, My! Because the cover looked extremely familiar: two googly-eyed sheep made out of chocolatefrosted cakes with gobs of mini marshmallows for fleece. Haley had seen the cover before. In the lobby!

也许是她自己的情景喜剧。迪斯尼频道的节目。 但要实现这一切，海莉需要一个制胜的主意，而且要快。 总比“爬过一个只够你手腕宽的狭缝”好。 也许她应该把自己冲进马桶然后从下水道逃出去就像查尔斯在那个电子游戏里做的那样。 她走向书角咖啡馆，坐下来思考。 她走进房间，查看了一下零食桌。 盘子里有饼干、草莓、香蕉和巧克力蛋糕。 她坐下来啃着一块马卡龙，一边研究着墙上书架上陈列的一排烹饪书。 其中一个特别吸引了她的注意:纸杯蛋糕，饼干和馅饼，哦，天哪!因为封面看起来非常眼熟:两只眼睛瞪大的羊，是用巧克力糖霜蛋糕做成的，羊毛上放着小棉花糖。 海莉以前看过封面。 在大厅!

It was in that glass case of memorable reads selected by the library staff. She went over to the shelf and picked up the book. When she opened the cover, she discovered two cards. One was a four-by-four piece of white cardboard with the black silhouette of a sheep on it. The second card was yellow and about the same size as a Community Chest card in Monopoly. Haley sniffed the card. It smelled like lemons. She grinned. "For Lemoncello!" On one side of the yellow card was printed: SUPER-DOOPER BONUS CLUE On the other was the clue: YOUR MARVELOUS MEMORY HAS EARNED YOU EVEN MORE MEMORIES. PROCEED TO THE LEMONCELLO-ABILIA ROOM. LOOK FOR ITEM #12.

它就在图书馆工作人员挑选的难忘读物的玻璃柜里。 她走到书架前，拿起了那本书。 当她打开盖子时，她发现了两张卡片。 一张是一张四乘四的白色硬纸板，上面有一只羊的黑色剪影。 第二张卡片是黄色的，大小和《大富翁》中的公益金卡片差不多。 哈利闻了闻卡片。闻起来像柠檬。 她咧嘴一笑。“Lemoncello !”黄牌的一面写着:“超级傻瓜奖金线索”，另一面写着“你的非凡记忆力为你赢得了更多的回忆”。 前往柠檬cello - abilia房间。 看看第12项。

Haley slid both cards into the back pocket of her jeans, pulled out her library floor plan, and found the Lemoncello-abilia Room. It was up on the third floor. Making certain nobody (i.e., Charles Chiltington) was following her, Haley quietly dashed up a spiral staircase to the second floor. Checking for Chiltington one more time, she tiptoed up to the third floor, where she found the room labeled "Lemoncello-abilia: Mini-Museum of Personally Interesting and Somewhat Quirky Junk." Haley opened the door and stepped inside. The front room was like a storage warehouse. Cardboard boxes were stacked on top of wooden crates sitting on plastic bins stuffed with papers. All the boxes, bins, and crates were numbered. She saw one labeled "#576." "Guess Mr. Lemoncello never throws anything away," Haley remarked as she scanned the heaps, looking for the #12 mentioned on her bonus card. Weaving her way through the stacks and columns, Haley finally found her Super-Dooper Bonus. Item #12 was an old boot box from an

海莉把两张牌都塞进牛仔裤后面的口袋里，拿出图书馆的平面图，找到了莱蒙塞洛-阿比利亚室。 它在三楼。 哈利确定没有人(也就是查尔斯·齐尔廷顿)跟着她，然后悄悄地冲上螺旋形楼梯，来到二楼。 她又检查了一遍Chiltington，蹑手蹑脚地走到三楼，在那里她发现了一个房间，上面写着“柠檬celllo -abilia:个人有趣和有点古怪的垃圾迷你博物馆”。 哈利打开门，走了进去。 前屋就像一个仓库。 纸板箱堆在木箱上，木箱放在装满纸张的塑料箱上。 所有的箱子、箱子和板条箱都有编号。 她看到一个标签上写着“576号”。 “我猜莱蒙塞罗先生从来不会扔掉任何东西，”哈利一边说，一边浏览着成堆的东西，寻找她的奖励卡上提到的12号。 海莉在书堆和书栏中穿行，终于找到了她的超级大妙药。 12号物品是一个旧的开机盒，来自一个

Alexandriaville shoe store Haley had never heard of. Someone had taped a label on the lid: "Paraphernalia, Accoutrements, and Doodads from Mr. Lemoncello's 12th Year." Haley lifted the lid. The box was filled with all sorts of confusing knickknacks: hand-whittled prototypes for game pieces; a star-spangled, redwhite- and-blue "H-H-H Humphrey" button; a battered clasp envelope sealed up with tons of tape. Someone had scribbled "First and Worst Idea Ever" on the front of the envelope with a Magic Marker. There were also a felt pennant from Disneyland and a rubber-banded stack of cartoony cards for something called Wacky Packages. (The card on top was Weakies, Breakfast of Chumps.) Haley knew this memory box had to be an important clue. Why? She had absolutely no idea.

哈利从未听说过的亚历山大维尔鞋店。 有人在盖子上贴了一个标签:“莱蒙切罗先生12年的随身用品、装备和小玩意。” 哈利掀开盖子。盒子里装满了各种令人困惑的小玩意:手工制作的游戏部件原型;红白蓝相间的星条旗“汉弗莱”按钮;一个破旧的带扣信封，用成吨的胶带封着。 有人用魔笔在信封正面潦草地写着“有史以来第一个也是最糟糕的主意”。 还有一面迪斯尼乐园的毛毡三角旗，还有一堆橡胶带的卡通卡片，上面写着一个叫“古怪包裹”的东西。 (上面的卡片上写着“弱者，笨蛋的早餐”。)海莉知道这个记忆盒一定是个重要线索。 为什么?她完全不知道。