Chapter 7

CHAPTER 7 THE NEXT MORNING DECEMBER 7, 1941 8:05A.M. Danny lay in his bed, listening to the morning birds sing outside his window. The Carmella was leaving in two hours. He was all ready for the trip. He had packed a small

第七章第二天早上1941年12月7日上午8:05 丹尼躺在床上，听着窗外清晨的鸟儿歌唱。 卡梅拉号两小时后就要出发了。 他为这次旅行做好了一切准备。 他装了一个小箱子

bag. He had written the note to leave for Ma. And he had the entire plan laid out in his head. Stowing away on the Carmella would be easy — one of Earl's guys did it once when he was younger: stowed away to Cuba to track down an old girlfriend. You had to be smart about it — dress nice, wash up, pretend you were visiting some passengers. Then, when the bell rang for all the visitors to leave, you had to find a good hiding place, like a storage closet, or a lifeboat, if you could sneak in without someone seeing you. Anywhere you could stay out of sight for at least a day, until the ship was far out to sea. After that, if you got caught, there wasn't much the crew could do. They wouldn't toss Danny overboard. He'd already figured out his sob story: He was an orphan, trying to get back to New York to be with his cousin Finn. He might even mention the name Earl Gasky. People had heard of Earl, even outside of New York. Danny heard that he was even friends with some guys in the FBI. Earl could get people to do all kinds of things, even give a kid a ride across the Pacific.

袋里。他写了这封信是要留给妈妈的。 整个计划都在他脑子里盘算着。 偷渡卡米拉号很容易——厄尔年轻的时候，他的一个手下曾经偷渡到古巴去找他的前女友。 你得聪明点——穿得漂亮点，洗漱一下，假装你是去拜访一些乘客。 然后，当所有的来访者都离开的铃声响起时，你必须找到一个好的藏身之处，比如储物柜，或者救生艇，如果你能偷偷溜进去而不被人发现的话。 找个至少能躲上一天的地方，直到船远离大海。 在那之后，如果你被抓住了，船员们就无能为力了。 他们不会把丹尼扔到海里。 他已经想好了自己的悲惨故事:他是个孤儿，想回到纽约和他的表弟芬恩在一起。 他甚至可能会提到厄尔·加斯基这个名字。 人们甚至在纽约以外的地方都听说过厄尔。 丹尼听说他甚至和联邦调查局的一些人是朋友。 厄尔可以让人们做各种各样的事情，甚至可以载一个孩子横渡太平洋。

The trip would get trickier when the boat docked in San Francisco. Danny would have to slip away before the police got there. He'd have to get himself to the freight train yards. Riding freight cars wasn't so easy. Danny had heard bad stories about the "yard bulls," the guards who searched the sidings for train jumpers. They'd beat you up and then toss you through the doorway of the police station. But none of this scared Danny. So what was he doing still in bed? He should have gone to the Honolulu port right after Ma left for work at 7:00. But he couldn't bring himself to leave. All night, he'd been hearing Mrs. Sudo's voice in his head. Your mother is lucky to have a boy like you. A boy like Danny. What kind of boy was he? A boy who didn't turn his back on his best friend. But did that mean he was a boy who would leave his ma?

当船停靠在旧金山时，这趟旅程将变得更加棘手。 丹尼必须在警察赶到之前溜走。 他得自己去货运站。 坐货车可不那么容易。 丹尼听过一些关于“站场看守”的坏故事，站场看守在铁路侧线上搜寻偷车贼。 他们会揍你一顿，然后把你扔出警察局的门口。 但这一切都没有吓到丹尼。 那他怎么还躺在床上? 他应该在妈7点下班后马上去檀香山港口。 但他无法让自己离开。 整晚，他都在脑海里听到修藤太太的声音。 你妈妈有你这样的儿子真是幸运。 像丹尼这样的男孩。他是个什么样的男孩? 一个不背弃自己最好朋友的男孩。 但这是否意味着他是一个会离开他妈妈的男孩?

All these weeks he'd been thinking about doing what was right for Finn, but now he couldn't stop thinking about Ma. What would she do when she discovered that Danny was gone? He couldn't even imagine it, how frantic she'd be. All night he'd been tossing in his bed, feeling torn in two. He was lying there, his thoughts seesawing back and forth, when a familiar voice rang out. "Danny! Danny, come!" Aki was outside again. Now his plans would really be messed up! Danny climbed out of bed. He quickly dressed and went to the door. Aki was standing there by himself. "Aki," he said. "What are you doing here?" The kid wasn't wearing his crazy monkey grin. His face looked dead serious. He pointed up to the sky and said in a soft and scared voice, "Airplanes."

这几个星期以来，他一直在考虑为芬恩做正确的事，但现在他无法停止想念妈妈。 如果她发现丹尼不见了，她会怎么做? 他甚至无法想象她会有多疯狂。 整晚他都在床上辗转反侧，感觉自己被撕成了两半。 他躺在那里，思绪起伏不定，这时一个熟悉的声音响了起来。 “丹尼!丹尼,来!”阿琪又在外面了。 现在他的计划真的会一团糟!丹尼爬下床。 他迅速穿好衣服，走到门口。 阿琪独自站在那里。 “阿琪，”他说。“你在这儿干什么?”那孩子没有带着猴子般的疯狂笑容。 他的脸显得非常严肃。 他指着天空，用柔和而恐惧的声音说:“飞机。”