7 Escape

CHAPTER 7 ESCAPE Claire tramped down the stairs and tried the door. "Uh-oh," she said, glancing up at Kaz and Mrs. Beesley. "We're locked in here." "What?" Mrs. Beesley cried. "That door is never locked." Holding tight to the railing, she slowly made her way down the stairs and tried the door herself. It was indeed locked. "You have a key, don't you?" asked Claire. "Yes," Mrs. Beesley said. "But... it's in the lock. On the other side of the door. Do you have a cell phone? We could call one of my neighbors

克莱尔迈着沉重的脚步走下楼梯，试着开门。 “哦哦，”她说，抬头看了一眼卡兹和比斯利太太。 “我们被锁在这里了。”“什么?”比斯利太太叫道。 “那扇门从来不锁。” 她紧紧抓住栏杆，慢慢地走下楼梯，自己试着开门。 它确实是锁着的。“你有钥匙，是吗？”克莱尔问。 “是的，”比斯利太太说。“但是…… 它在锁里。在门的另一边。 你有手机吗？我们可以打电话给我的邻居

and ask them to come over and unlock the door." "I do," Claire said. "But it's in my bag. And I left my bag in the living room." "What are we going to do?" Mrs. Beesley moaned. A noise in the Outside caught Kaz's attention. He knew that window was open, so he didn't want to get too close. But he was close enough to catch a glimpse of that neighbor boy, Eli, running across Mrs. Beesley's yard toward his own yard. "Claire! Claire!" Kaz cried. "Come quick!" Claire clomped back up the stairs. "Look outside," Kaz said, backing away from the window.

叫他们过来开门。” “是的，”克莱尔说。“但是它在我的包里。 我把包忘在客厅了。” “我们该怎么办？”比斯利太太呻吟着。 外面的声音引起了卡兹的注意。 他知道窗户是开着的，所以他不想靠得太近。 但他离得很近，瞥见邻居家的男孩伊莱正穿过比斯利太太的院子朝自己的院子跑去。 “克莱尔!克莱儿!”Kaz哭了。 “快!”克莱尔噔噔噔地爬上楼梯。 “往外看。”卡兹说着，从窗口后退了几步。

Claire strode over to the window. "Hey, this window is open," she called to Mrs. Beesley. "Yes," Mrs. Beesley said from halfway up the stairs. "It smelled musty up here, so I opened it this morning." "Do you see Eli?" Kaz asked Claire, stretching the top part of his body a little bit closer, but not too close, to the window. "I saw him running over to his own yard from Mrs. Beesley's yard. Could

克莱尔大步走到窗前。 “嘿，窗户开着，”她对比斯利太太喊道。 “是的，”比斯利太太在楼梯中间说。 “这里有股霉味，所以我今天早上打开了。” “你看见伊莱了吗？”卡兹问克莱尔，把他身体的上半部分向窗户伸得更近一些，但也不要太近。 “我看见他从比斯利太太的院子里跑到他自己的院子里。 可以

he be Mrs. Beesley's ghost? Could he have climbed that tree out there and sneaked into the attic? Could he have made all those noises, and broken the lamp, and locked us in here to play another trick on Mrs. Beesley?" "I don't know, but I'm going to find out," Claire said. Kaz darted out of Claire's way. "What are you going to find out, dear?" Mrs. Beesley asked. Claire raised the window as high as it would go and swung her leg over the windowsill. Mrs. Beesley's eyes widened. "What are you doing?" she cried as Claire climbed out onto the roof. "I'm going to climb down that tree and find out what's going on. Then I'm going to come back through your front door and open the attic door." Mrs. Beesley gasped. "B-but you could fall!" "I'll be okay," Claire said. Holding her arms out to the sides for balance, she sloooowly walked

他是比斯利太太的鬼魂？ 他会不会爬上那棵树，偷偷溜进阁楼？ 会不会是他弄出那么多声响，打破了灯，把我们锁在这里，又想捉弄比斯利太太？”“我不知道，但我会查清楚的，”克莱尔说。 卡兹赶紧躲开克莱尔。 “你想知道什么，亲爱的？”比斯利太太问。 克莱尔把窗户抬得尽可能高，把腿甩在窗台上。 比斯利太太睁大了眼睛。 “你在干什么？”当克莱尔爬上屋顶时，她喊道。 “我要爬下那棵树，看看发生了什么事。 然后我会从你的前门回来，打开阁楼的门。” 比斯利太太喘着气说。“但是你会掉下去的！”“我会没事的，”克莱尔说。 为了保持平衡，她伸出双臂，慢慢地走着

across the roof. Mrs. Beesley stood at the window and wrung her hands nervously. She didn't take her eyes off Claire. Kaz was just as worried as Mrs. Beesley was. What if Claire slipped and fell? What if she fell all the way to the ground? Solids weren't like ghosts. They could get hurt. Really badly. Mrs. Beesley gasped again as Claire reached for the tree branch that ran alongside the roof. Kaz closed his eyes. He couldn't bear to watch. But he couldn't bear to not watch, either. He opened one eye and watched Claire crawl along the tree branch. Careful not to get too close to the window, Kaz watched Claire climb down the branches as though

穿过屋顶。比斯利太太站在窗前，紧张地绞着双手。 她一直盯着克莱尔。 卡兹和比斯利太太一样担心。 如果克莱尔滑倒了怎么办？ 如果她摔在地上怎么办？ 固体不像鬼。 他们可能会受伤。真的不好。 克莱尔伸手去抓屋顶旁边的树枝时，比斯利太太又倒吸了一口气。 卡兹闭上了眼睛。他看不下去了。 但他也不忍心不看。 他睁开一只眼睛，看着克莱尔沿着树枝爬。 卡兹小心翼翼地不太靠近窗户，看着克莱尔从树枝上爬下来，仿佛

they were stairs. Soon she disappeared from Kaz's view. Kaz sailed across the attic and down along the stairs. There was no carpet here like there was on the second floor of the library, so when he reached the closed door, he took a deep breath, made himself as flat as a piece of paper, and swam under the door. He needed to get someplace where he could see Claire. He started to go inside one of the bedrooms, but the window was wide open. Kaz could feel the pull of the Outside, so he backed away. He tried the next bedroom. The window in this room was open only a crack. He swam to the top of the window and looked outside. He saw Claire talking to Eli, the boy next door. Whew. Claire was safe. Claire and Eli didn't talk for long. After a couple of minutes, she broke away and ran toward Mrs. Beesley's house. Kaz couldn't wait to hear what she had found out.

它们是楼梯。很快她就从和子的视线中消失了。 卡兹穿过阁楼，沿着楼梯走了下来。 这里没有像图书馆二楼那样的地毯，所以当他走到关着的门时，他深深地吸了一口气，把自己压得像一张纸一样，从门底下游了过去。 他需要找个能见到克莱尔的地方。 他开始走进其中一间卧室，但窗户大开着。 卡兹能感觉到外面的拉力，所以他后退了。 他试了试隔壁的卧室。 这个房间的窗户只开了一条缝。 他游到窗顶向外望去。 他看到克莱尔和隔壁男孩伊莱说话。 唷。克莱尔很安全。克莱尔和伊莱没聊多久。 几分钟后，她挣脱了，向比斯利太太的家跑去。 卡兹迫不及待地想知道她发现了什么。