11 THE UNDERGROUND

CHAPTER 11 THE UNDERGROUND Sorry," the security guard said to Claire and Maddie the next afternoon. "I can't let you see that video." Rain plunked against the outside windows. "What? Why not?" Claire asked as Kaz passed through her water bottle and exp-a-a-a-a-a-nded beside her. The security guard laughed. "Because you're kids!" "So?" Maddie said. "The video is not a toy," the security guard said. "I'm going to see if Little John came back last night. Okay, Claire?" Kaz said. She nodded

第二天下午，保安对克莱尔和玛蒂说：“对不起。” “我不能让你看那个视频。” 雨落在外面的窗户上。 “什么?为什么不呢?”克莱尔问道，这时卡兹穿过她的水瓶，停在了她身边。 保安笑了。 “因为你们是孩子！”“所以?”玛迪说。 “视频不是玩具，”这名保安说。 “我去看看小约翰昨晚回来了没有。 好的,克莱尔?”Kaz说。她点了点头

slightly. Now, where would Little John be if he did come back? Kaz wondered. Probably the children's center. Kaz swam up over the security guard's head and through the glass wall behind her. "Little John?" he called, looking around. "Are you here, Little John?" Kaz didn't see his brother. He drifted down through the short, slanted wall into the "secret room" that Little John had found yesterday. No Little John in there, either. Claire and Maddie were still arguing with the security guard when Kaz passed back through the wall. He searched the rest of the first floor, then sailed up along the conveyor belt that carried books from the book return to the second floor. "Little John?" he called again. But Little John wasn't on the second floor. Kaz searched the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh floors.

略。现在，如果小约翰回来了，他会在哪里呢？ Kaz很好奇。可能是儿童中心。 和子游过了保安的头，穿过了她身后的玻璃墙。 “小约翰？”他环顾四周，喊道。 “你在这儿吗，小约翰？”卡兹没有看到他的弟弟。 他穿过矮矮的斜墙，飘进了小约翰昨天发现的“密室”。 里面也没有小约翰。 克莱尔和曼迪还在和保安争吵，这时卡兹穿过墙回来了。 他搜遍了一楼的其他地方，然后沿着传送带把书从图书归还处送到二楼。 “小约翰？”他又叫道。 但是小约翰不在二楼。 和子找遍了三楼、四楼、五楼、六楼、七楼、八楼、九楼、十楼和十一楼。

He called Little John's name on every single floor. No luck. The only place he hadn't checked was the parking garage. Kaz floated down through all the floors, all the way to the parking garage. "Little John?" he called, looking both ways. Nothing. Kaz considered passing through the concrete floor. Maybe this time he would keep going without turning around. But without knowing for sure whether that would lead to Little John, or anywhere, he didn't think he wanted to try it. He went back up to the main floor to see if Claire and Maddie had managed to talk the security guard into showing them the video. But the security guard was all alone at her table. Where were Claire and Maddie? "Over here," Claire called as Kaz started to pass through the glass wall. He was going to search the children's center. But Claire and

他在每一层楼都叫小约翰的名字。 没有运气。他唯一没有检查的地方是停车场。 和子飘了一层又一层，一直飘到停车场。 “小约翰？”他朝两边看了看，喊道。 什么都没有。和子考虑穿过混凝土地板。 也许这一次他会继续前进而不回头。 但由于不确定这是否会导致小约翰，或任何地方，他认为他不想尝试。 他回到一楼，想看看克莱尔和曼迪是否说服了保安给他们看录像。 但保安独自一人坐在她的桌子旁。 克莱尔和麦迪去哪了？ “这边，”克莱尔在卡兹穿过玻璃墙时喊道。 他要搜查儿童中心。 但是克莱尔和

Maddie were sitting by themselves in the front row of the dark auditorium. They looked as glum as Kaz felt. "That security guard wouldn't let us look at the video," Claire said. "We even tried to get Andrea to talk to her, but she wouldn't. Andrea's canceling the Halloween party."

麦蒂独自坐在黑暗的礼堂的前排。 他们看上去和卡兹一样闷闷不乐。 “那个保安不让我们看视频，”克莱尔说。 “我们甚至试图让安德里亚和她说话，但她不愿意。 安德莉亚要取消万圣节派对。”

"She is? Did something else happen to make her cancel it?" Kaz asked. Claire shook her head. "She just said that since a bunch of kids said they weren't coming now, it made sense to cancel it." "So, no Halloween party. We don't know what happened to Little John. Plus, it's raining outside," Kaz said. This had turned into a really crummy visit to Seattle. "I'm really sorry about Little John," Claire said. "Thanks," Kaz said. "Hey, I just thought of something," Maddie said, sitting up a little straighter. "People say there are ghosts in the Underground. The Underground tour is only a couple blocks from here. We could walk down there. It's not tourist season, so we could probably get on the next tour. If there's a ghost in there, maybe he can help us solve one or both of our mysteries."

“她是吗?是不是发生了什么事让她取消了约会？”Kaz问道。 克莱尔摇了摇头。“她只是说，既然一群孩子说他们现在不来了，所以取消是有道理的。” “所以，没有万圣节派对。我们不知道小约翰怎么了。 另外，外面正在下雨。” 这次西雅图之行真是糟透了。 “小约翰的事我真的很抱歉，”克莱尔说。 “谢谢，”卡兹说。“嘿，我刚想到一件事，”玛蒂说，坐得更直了一些。 “人们说地铁里有鬼。 地下之旅离这里只有几个街区。 我们可以走过去。现在不是旅游季节，所以我们也许可以参加下一个旅游。 如果里面有鬼，也许他能帮我们解开一个或两个谜团。”

"How would a ghost in the Underground be able to help us?" Kaz asked. "What would he know about ghosts in the library?" Claire shrugged. "It's worth a try. Unless you've got a better idea?" she asked Kaz. Kaz didn't. So he shrank down... down... down and went inside Claire's water bottle. The Underground tour began aboveground, in a building that looked like an old saloon. Claire and Maddie sat on hard wooden benches listening to their tour guide, Wendy, talk about the early settlers. Kaz stayed inside the bottle. Wendy led the group outside into the rain. Some people put up umbrellas as they tromped across Pioneer Square. They crossed the street and stopped beside a stairwell. "Be careful. The stairs might be slippery," Wendy said as she headed down the stairs and

“一个地下的鬼魂怎么能帮助我们呢？”Kaz问道。 “他怎么会知道图书馆里有鬼魂呢？”克莱儿耸耸肩。 “值得一试。除非你有更好的主意？”她问卡兹。 Kaz没有。所以他退缩了…… 下来……爬到克莱尔的水瓶里 地下之旅从地上开始，在一个看起来像老酒馆的建筑里。 克莱尔和玛蒂坐在硬木凳上，听导游温蒂讲述早期定居者的故事。 卡兹呆在瓶子里。 温迪把大家带到了雨中。 一些人在穿过先锋广场时撑起雨伞。 他们穿过街道，在一个楼梯井旁停了下来。 “小心些而已。楼梯可能会滑。”温迪边说边走下楼梯