10 THINKING

CHAPTER 10 THINKING... We forgot to ask Andrea whether or not she was going to cancel the Halloween party," Claire said. She and Maddie stood on the underground platform waiting for their bus. Kaz hovered inside the water bottle that hung from Claire's shoulder. "I didn't forget to ask her," Maddie said. "You know how sometimes you want to ask your parents something and you know that if you ask today, they'll say no. But if you wait until tomorrow, they might say yes?" Claire nodded. "That's how I felt about asking Andrea about the Halloween party," Maddie said.

第十章思考……我们忘了问安德里亚她是否会取消万圣节派对，”克莱尔说。 她和麦迪站在地下站台上等公共汽车。 卡兹在克莱尔肩上挂着的水瓶里徘徊。 “我没有忘记问她，”玛蒂说。 “你知道有时候你想问你的父母一些事情，你知道如果你今天问，他们会说不。 但如果你等到明天，他们可能会同意？”克莱儿点了点头。 “这就是我向安德里亚询问万圣节派对的感受，”麦迪说。

Kaz was so worried about Little John, he'd forgotten all about the Halloween party. "Tomorrow might be a better day to ask," Maddie said, "as long as nothing else happens at the library tonight." A bus pulled up, but the girls didn't get on it. Kaz watched it drive away into one of the tunnels. Wait, Kaz thought, peering into the tunnel. Where exactly does that tunnel go? He knew it went under a bunch of downtown buildings. But which ones? David, the reference librarian, told Claire and Maddie there wasn't anything under the library. But maybe he meant there weren't any buildings under there. Could there be a transit tunnel? "Hey, Claire!" Kaz called from inside the bottle. "Do you know where these tunnels go?" If there was a transit tunnel under the library, maybe a ghost could get to it if he swam all the way through the concrete. In which case, Little John might be in one of these tunnels!

卡兹太担心小约翰了，他把万圣节派对的事全忘了。 “也许明天问更好，”玛蒂说，“只要今晚图书馆不出别的事就行。” 一辆公共汽车停了下来，但女孩们没有上车。 卡兹看着它驶进了一条隧道。 等等，卡兹想，眼睛盯着隧道。 这条隧道到底通到哪里？ 他知道它在市中心的一些建筑下面。 但是是哪些呢？参考图书管理员大卫告诉克莱尔和玛蒂，图书馆下面什么也没有。 但也许他的意思是下面没有任何建筑物。 会不会有过境隧道？ “嘿,克莱儿!”卡兹在瓶子里叫道。 “你知道这些隧道通向哪里吗？”如果图书馆下面有运输隧道，也许鬼魂能游过混凝土隧道就能进去。 这样的话，小约翰可能就在其中一条隧道里！

"CLAIRE!" Kaz called, louder this time. "WHERE DO THESE TUNNELS GO? DO THEY GO UNDER THE LIBRARY?" But it had gotten noisy on the platform. Claire couldn't hear Kaz calling to her. A bus stopped in front of Claire and Maddie, and this time they got on. They tromped to the back of the bus and plopped down in the middle of the last bench. Kaz thought about the ghosts that passed through the bus yesterday. If Little John was in the tunnel, maybe he'd pass through the bus like those other ghosts did. If he did, Kaz didn't want Little John to miss him. He started to pass through Claire's water bottle. "What are you doing?" Claire asked. "I'm not doing anything," Maddie said. "I didn't mean you," Claire whispered as two ladies in front of them turned to look. Now that he had Claire's attention, Kaz asked, "Do you know if this tunnel goes under the

“克莱尔!”卡兹喊道，这次声音更大了。 “这些隧道通向哪里？” 他们从图书馆下面走吗？”但是站台上的声音太吵了。 克莱尔听不见卡兹在叫她。 一辆公共汽车停在克莱尔和曼迪面前，这次他们上了车。 他们迈着沉重的步子走到公共汽车的后面，扑通一声坐在最后一张长凳的中间。 卡兹想起了昨天经过公共汽车的鬼魂。 如果小约翰在隧道里，也许他会像其他鬼魂一样穿过巴士。 如果他知道，卡兹不想让小约翰想念他。 他开始穿过克莱尔的水瓶。 “你在干什么？”克莱尔问道。 “我什么也没做，”麦迪说。 “我不是说你，”克莱尔低声说，前面的两位女士转过身来看。 现在他引起了克莱尔的注意，卡兹问道：“你知道这条隧道是不是从

library? If so, Little John could be in the tunnel or on a bus." "I don't know," Claire said. She turned to her cousin. "Do you know if the transit tunnel goes under the library?" Maddie shrugged. "No idea," she said, pulling out her phone. "But we can look for a map on our phones once we're through the tunnel." "Can you look now?" Kaz asked. If the tunnel did run under the library, he would quickly get off this bus and go try to find his brother. Claire shook her head. "We can't get online in the tunnel—only on the underground platform," she said. Kaz groaned. He could see daylight up ahead. The bus was coming out of the tunnel. He wouldn't be able to get off the bus now. Claire and Maddie bent over their phones, searching for a map of the transit tunnels. "Got it!" Claire said, zooming in with her fingers.

图书馆吗?如果是这样，小约翰可能在隧道里或公共汽车上。” “我不知道，”克莱尔说。 她转向表姐。“你知道过境隧道是不是在图书馆下面吗？”玛迪耸耸肩。 “不知道，”她说着，掏出手机。 “但一旦我们穿过隧道，我们可以在手机上查找地图。” “你现在能看了吗？”Kaz问道。 如果隧道真的从图书馆下面穿过，他会赶紧下车去找他哥哥。 克莱尔摇了摇头。她说：“我们不能在隧道里上网，只能在地下平台上上网。” Kaz呻吟着。他能看到前方的阳光。 公共汽车正驶出隧道。 他现在可能下不了车了。 克莱尔和曼迪低头看手机，寻找交通隧道的地图。 “明白了!”克莱尔说，用手指放大镜头。

Maddie leaned toward Claire, and Kaz tried to see between them. "Nope," Maddie said. "They're close. The library's over here." She touched a spot on Claire's phone. "But the transit tunnel is over there. It's, like, half a block away." So much for that idea. That night, Claire and Maddie carved pumpkins. Aunt Beth helped Claire carve a funny face in one of the pumpkins. Maddie used a pattern to poke holes and cut a design in the other one. Claire couldn't tell what the design was until Maddie finished. It was a witch on a broomstick with a full moon behind her. "That looks nice," Claire said. "Thanks," Maddie said, picking up her pumpkin. "Let's go outside and see how they look in the dark."

麦蒂向克莱尔倾过身去，卡兹试图从他们中间看过去。 “不，”麦迪说。“他们接近。 图书馆在这里。”她摸到了克莱尔手机上的一个污点。 “但是过境隧道在那边。 就在半个街区之外。” 这个想法到此为止。那天晚上，克莱尔和麦迪雕刻南瓜。 贝丝阿姨帮克莱尔在其中一个南瓜上刻了一张滑稽的脸。 麦蒂用一个图案戳了几个洞，在另一个上面剪了一个图案。 直到麦迪完成，克莱尔才知道设计是什么。 是一个骑在扫帚上的女巫，身后是一轮满月。 “看起来不错，”克莱尔说。 “谢谢，”玛蒂说着，拿起她的南瓜。 “我们到外面去，看看它们在黑暗中是什么样子。”

Not wanting to be left behind, Kaz shrank down... down... down... and passed through Claire's water bottle. Claire grabbed her bottle and her pumpkin and followed Maddie out onto the front porch. Maddie lit the candles inside the pumpkins. Then the girls clomped down the steps so they could see them glowing from the sidewalk. "They look good!" Maddie declared. "Scary, but not too scary," Claire said.

和子不想落在后面，于是缩回身子…… 下来……下来……穿过克莱尔的水瓶 克莱尔抓起奶瓶和南瓜，跟着麦蒂来到前廊。 麦蒂点燃了南瓜里的蜡烛。 然后女孩们迈着沉重的步子走下台阶，这样她们就能从人行道上看到台阶发出的光芒。 “它们看起来不错！”玛迪说。 “可怕，但不是太可怕，”克莱尔说。