Chapter 12

CHAPTER 12 Mr. Bailets looked up from the note, and a smile burst onto his face. "They made it to Scenic! And by later today they'll all be on a train back to Seattle." Happy shouts bubbled up through the dining room, and relief washed over Janie. She hadn't realized how worried she'd been.

第十二章巴列茨先生从纸条上抬起头来，脸上绽开了笑容。 “他们来到了风景区！”今天晚些时候，他们就会坐上回西雅图的火车。” 饭厅里响起了欢乐的喊声，简妮如释重负。 她没有意识到自己有多担心。

"But Riggins warns that others should not try to walk to Scenic," Mr. Bailets went on. "Says it's too dangerous." The red-nosed man nodded. "I'd never do it again." "We almost got buried in a slide coming here," said a tall man in a ragged coat, his voice raspy with fear. "Thought we were done for." Stay or go? Stay or go? That's all anyone was talking about in the observation car that afternoon. Janie and Frederick listened in as they played their one hundredth game of checkers. "I'd leave this train if I could," Mrs. Letts said. "But I wouldn't make it very far. And what about people with young children, like Mrs. Kayden? How could she manage, hiking through a blizzard with Violet and the baby?" They'd never make it, Janie thought.

“但里金斯警告说，其他人不应该试图步行去风景区，”巴莱茨接着说。 “说太危险了。” 红鼻子男人点了点头。“我再也不会这么做了。” “我们来的时候差点被滑梯埋了，”一个衣衫褴褛的高个子男人说，他的声音因恐惧而沙哑。 “我以为我们完了。” 留下还是离开？留下还是离开？那天下午在观景车里所有人都在谈论这个。 珍妮和弗雷德里克听着他们下第一百局跳棋。 “如果可以的话，我宁愿离开这列火车，”莱茨太太说。 “但我不会走得太远。 那有小孩的人呢，比如凯登夫人？ 她是怎么做到的，带着维奥莱特和孩子在暴风雪中徒步旅行的？”他们不可能成功的，简妮想。

"You're safer here," Mr. McBride assured Mrs. Letts. "We all are," Miss Wade agreed. Frederick and Janie went on with their game. Frederick was winning, and he was studying the board closely. But then he suddenly looked up at Janie. "I… I know it sounds odd," he said quietly. "But I kind of like being stuck out here, away from school—from everything." Janie flinched as she suddenly thought of what might be waiting for her in Seattle. Malvo's goons. The police. More cold nights hiding in filthy alleys. Up here in the middle of nowhere, Janie hadn't thought of any of that. Part of her definitely wished this blizzard would never end. "Me too," she said to Frederick. But why wouldn't Frederick want to go back home? Janie figured his life was perfect in Seattle, like a prince in one of Miss Eva's fairy tales.

“你在这里更安全，”麦克布莱德先生向莱茨太太保证。 “我们都是，"韦德小姐表示同意。 弗雷德里克和珍妮继续玩他们的游戏。 弗雷德里克赢了，他正在仔细研究棋盘。 但他突然抬头看着简妮。 “我……我知道这听起来很奇怪。”他平静地说。 “但我有点喜欢呆在这里，远离学校——远离一切。” 珍妮突然想到在西雅图等着她的可能是什么，她畏缩了一下。 Malvo的暴徒。警察。 更多的寒冷夜晚躲在肮脏的小巷里。 在这荒无人烟的地方，珍妮一点也没想过这些。 她内心深处确实希望这场暴风雪永远不要结束。 “我也是，”她对弗雷德里克说。 但弗雷德里克为什么不想回家呢？ 珍妮觉得他在西雅图的生活很完美，就像伊娃小姐童话里的王子一样。

"I miss my mom and everything," Frederick said, as though he'd read Janie's mind. "But at home I barely ever see my father. He's always so busy. And, well…" He looked up at Janie. "It's fun to make a new friend." A friend? Janie couldn't stop herself from smiling. "For me, too," Janie said. And to her surprise, she realized she wasn't lying. Frederick was about to win Janie's last checker when Violet appeared. She was bright-eyed from her nap. She raced over to them, bumping the table and scattering the checkers into a jumble. "No!" Frederick laughed. "I was about to win!" "Don't be so sure," Janie joked, picking Violet up and plopping her on her lap. "I want to build my snowman!" Violet said. Again. "Actually, the weather isn't so bad right now," Frederick said, glancing out the window. It had warmed up overnight. For a few hours, the snow

“我想念我妈妈和我的一切，”弗雷德里克说，仿佛他看透了珍妮的心思。 “但在家里，我很少见到父亲。 他总是很忙。然后，嗯……”他抬头看着珍妮。 “结交新朋友很有趣。” 一个朋友吗?珍妮忍不住笑了。 “对我来说也是，”简妮说。 令她吃惊的是，她意识到自己没有撒谎。 弗雷德里克正要赢下珍妮的最后一个跳棋时，维奥莱特出现了。 她打了个盹儿，眼睛很亮。 她向他们跑过去，撞到了桌子，把跳棋弄得乱七八糟。 “不!”弗雷德里克笑了。“我就要赢了！”“别这么肯定，”简妮开玩笑说，把维奥莱特抱起来，扑通一声放在腿上。 “我想堆雪人！”紫说。 再一次。“实际上，现在的天气还不算太坏，”弗雷德里克说着，朝窗外瞥了一眼。 一夜之间天气变暖了。 雪下了好几个小时

had actually turned to rain. It was snowing again now, but not too hard. "Let's go," Janie said. They bundled Violet up and took her outside. Frederick found a shovel and they got to work. Soon three other kids from the day cars joined them. They threw snowballs and climbed the drifts. Miss Wade came outside to watch, and Mrs. Kayden brought baby Billy. Happy giggles echoed through the mountains. When they'd finished the snowman, Mr. Anderson brought them two pieces of coal for eyes. Miss Wade plopped her green feathered hat onto the snowman's bald head. "Very elegant," Mrs. Kayden laughed. "Now let's get inside." Violet was sopping wet, and Billy was fussing. "But snowman needs a scarf!" Violet cried. "She's right," Frederick said, looking around. "We'll find one later," Janie said, picking the little girl up.

竟然变成了雨。 雪又下起来了，但不是很大。 “我们走吧，”简妮说。他们把维奥莱特裹得严严的，带她出去了。 弗雷德里克找到一把铲子，他们开始工作。 很快，另外三个孩子也加入了他们的行列。 他们扔雪球，爬雪堆。 韦德小姐出来看，凯登太太带着小比利。 快乐的笑声在山间回荡。 当他们堆完雪人后，安德森先生给他们拿来两块煤做眼睛。 韦德小姐扑通一声把她的绿色羽毛帽子戴在雪人的秃头上。 “非常优雅，”凯登夫人笑着说。 “现在我们进去吧。”维奥莱特全身湿透了，比利在大惊小怪。 “但是雪人需要一条围巾！”紫哭了。 “她说得对，”弗雷德里克环顾四周说。 “我们以后会找到的，”简妮说着把小女孩抱起来。

They climbed back onto the sleeper car, which was empty. Voices echoed from the observation car next door. "Everyone must be in there," Frederick said. They left Violet with her mother in the observation car. Then they went back to their sleeper car and Janie visited the washroom, holding her nose against the stench. When she came out, she was surprised to see her overnight bag sitting out on the seat, unzipped. That was not where she'd left it. Dread crept up her spine as she looked inside. Right away, she could see something was missing. One of her red knee socks. The one with the stolen jewels inside.

他们爬回了空空如也的卧铺车厢。 隔壁的观景车里传来了回响。 “每个人都在里面，”弗雷德里克说。 他们把维奥莱特和她妈妈留在了观景车里。 然后他们回到卧铺车厢，珍妮去洗手间，用鼻子捂住臭味。 当她出来的时候，她惊讶地看到她的旅行包放在座位上，拉链没有拉上。 她不是把它放在那里的。 她往里看，恐惧爬上了脊柱。 她马上就发现少了什么。 她的一只红色及膝袜。 里面装着偷来的珠宝。